Hive Blockchain's Iceland crypto mining facility cost roughly $15M
Harry Pokrandt · 1180 How He's Making $30m/Quarter Mining Ethereum Blockchain · Oct 17, 2018 · at 3:45
Harry Pokrandt, founding CEO of Hive Blockchain, explains the scale and buildout costs of the company's mining facility in Iceland.
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“The facility we have in Iceland is, is much smaller. It's a 10th of the size of what we're building in, in Sweden. So the one in Iceland cost us roughly 15 odd million in, in, in Iceland.”
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