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| And I also wanted to dig more into the hosting business, so far demonstrated strong results |
| We remain confident in the strength of our business going into the halving and we believe that we have outstanding growth prospects through high-grading our fleet and developing carbon capture |
| Thank you for the faith, we're doing our best and we are optimistic about our prospects given the business model and we will see you next quarter |
| We believe that we have significant runway to continue hash rate growth within our existing infrastructure by high-grading our fleet |
| As a vertically integrated Bitcoin miner, we have a unique and substantial asset base with significant potential for complementary revenue streams |
| So I'm sorry we can't tell you exactly per unit and everything, but that's a -- I can say, we did all that math in December on a hypothetical basis, and it is materially better than what we had initially thought in terms of CapEx, speed to carbonate and new rate of absorption |
| Over the past year and a half, Stronghold executed on its plan to grow hash rate to 4 exahash, with high capital efficiency |
| But I think if you were to study our balance sheet and our obligations, there are purposely low due to halving to let us get to the point where we should be able to begin to spend to upgrade the fleet on time, which will give us a benefit on top of having an extremely low power price |
| You can make it which obviously will improve our margins |
| So, we think that the Highgrade opportunity is very attractive |
| And we're very grateful with so to have Calpine, Champion Energy for a Calpine stepped into that role |
| This partnership has been a success, as evidenced by our recent achievement of approximately 3.9 exahash of operating hash rate |
| And importantly, our operations are generating cash flow with over $5 million of adjusted EBITDA projected for the first quarter, further enhancing our resiliency |
| And we're very excited about the reduced cost of power that will absolutely result from that during periods when we're importing |
| Moving to Slide 10, we continue to believe that Stronghold is significantly undervalued on an absolute basis and acutely so relative to public Bitcoin mining peers |
| So this is just a nice like reminder of the strength of the stronghold business model, which is, hey, if power prices are super high, we can quickly turn the data centers off and divert all of that power to the grid |
| It enhances our ability to be responsive to changing market conditions |
| And I would say the last three months has been a bit better than confirmatory because it's when you're driving the rate of carbon absorption up |
| Since announcing our carbon capture project in November our team has made significant progress improving our enhancing and validating our process |
| So that we're confident that the all of the infrastructure that we’re running that we built with access to the power and that redundancy is a valuable infrastructure assets |
| And we plan to continue adding hash rate in improving our fleet efficiency opportunistically |
| We are excited about our progress we have made on this project over the last few months |
| We think obviously, the rates are going to be potentially materially different post having and as always, we're trying to do better than the market in terms of what we spend and how we structure |
| So, hey, you know, once we have our signed fund and we're confident we can share that with potential buyers of carbon credits and we're on the exchange and audited and, I guess, then transactable in this way that then opens up the ability for us to sell |
| While we won't take a view on inflows representing potential demand, the halving will impact the supply side of the equation which all else equal, is quite constructive for future Bitcoin price |
| I guess with $30 megawatt hour, it's produced strong prices from a marginal cost standpoint where you keep machines on |
| But you're right, the reason to be excited is that, this is a revenue stream that when looked at on a -- on a an offset for power costs, it's going to meaningfully drive the -- the revenue up and the sort of the average cost per megawatt down, which is that that was the which we've always said that that's even more important than deficiency of the achieves a low power cost |
| But we've demonstrated various actually very creative ways of filling slots in the past and we think there are a lot of opportunities to do that without stretching forward |
| There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic and there's hard asset value here that is absolutely in our view not recognized by the market in terms of our plants and the carbon opportunity |
| Owning our own power assets gives us a lot of optionality, as electricity is the largest variable cost to mining Bitcoin |
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| But the unfortunate reality, is that they generate power intermittently, replacing stable baseload generation, with intermittent generation, severely threatens the stability of the grid |
| Moving to Slide 8, on the other side of the equation, the PJM grid is extremely vulnerable over the medium to long term |
| While low power pricing is a trend broadly, forward curves in PJM are generally the lowest in the country right now |
| In kind of switching topics, obviously power price environment has been very soft and you noted your flexibility to toggle between your own generation and purchasing power |
| So the -- not only is it going to require fewer cargo lifts to get the same job done, the cost of this cordless is coming down and labor is coming down |
| But I guess just what do you think the outlook is there? I was wondering if you could pursue additional opportunities on that front and on maybe what's the overall advantages to kind of your model versus your traditional hosting model have definitely struggled over the past two years |
| Greg, there's a lot of talk about shortages of power, given demands not only from Bitcoin mining, but also AI applications |
| As a result, at the current rate of development, PJM believes that the new projects will not be sufficient to keep up with demand growth, and the expected plant retirements by 2030 |
| GAAP net loss was $21.2 million for the fourth quarter and adjusted EBITDA was $2.3 million |
| And at times the -- the ad or the premium-to-wholesale can be onerous which I think you can see in the fourth quarter fuel and import power cost |
| And you looked at the forward curve for power expected power pricing in PJM, it's one of the lowest power markets in the U.S |
| I was curious -- on the carbon capture and the balance of now that you're seeing 14% recovery a lower cost to deploy the carbon list and the balance of running the plants to generate the ash and the expected revenue off? It's a big question |
| So we view the recent run-up in Bitcoin price as a result of the mismatch in supply in demand |
| As a result, we caution you that there are a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements |
| We're constantly sent opportunities review on new sites, but I think the cost of our power is lower than what most of us think that you'll be seeing could achieve |
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