Hive’s 25 EH Plan and Paraguay Expansion w/ Aydin Kilic

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Aydin Kilic, CEO of Hive Blockchain joins us to talk about their plan to scale to 25 EH/s by year end, the Paraguay expansion using new Bitmain hydro units, the company’s ATM funding strategy, and their pivot into HPC.

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**Notes:**

• Scaling from 12 to 25 exahash by year end

• 200MW Paraguay site bought for $400k/MW

• 18% share dilution in Q1 from ATM usage

• $500M mining margin target at 25 EH/s

• 50% gross mining margins currently

• $40M profit on Bitcoin pledge trade

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