Fortress Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: FORT) (the "Company" or
“Fortress”) provides an update on operations and business
development in its strategic venture with Great American Mining LLC
(“GAM”). GAM specializes in developing and operating
environmentally sustainable Bitcoin mining containers which convert
vented/flared natural gas into electricity, which reduces
greenhouse gas emissions. On April 6, 2021, Fortress announced the
launch of a new Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”)
conscious Bitcoin mining venture with GAM.
The first container with 11.6 PH/s of Bitcoin
mining capacity using 180 MicroBT M32S ASIC miners has been
successfully deployed and is hashing at GAM’S flared gas well pad
in Oklahoma.
Fortress recently acquired an additional 540
Micro BT M31SE ASIC miners, which will outfit GAM's next 3
containers to be deployed in July and produce an additional 40.4
PH/s.
This will bring the Fortress and GAM Bitcoin
mining operating hashrate to 52 PH/s for the first 4 containers in
the field - producing approximately 10 Bitcoin per month at current
difficulty levels.
Aydin Kilic, CEO of Fortress, had the
opportunity to visit the engineering and development team at GAM’s
production headquarters in Louisiana. Aydin Kilic commented: “We
were very pleased with the level of in-house sophistication and
design innovation at GAM’s production facility in Louisiana, which
includes electrical distribution, IT, welding and software and
hardware systems integration.”
Fortress initially commissioned and has paid for
12 containers in its strategic venture with GAM, to operate 2,160
new generation ASIC miners (180 miners per container). With 4
containers being deployed in the field this July, the remaining 8
containers are on the production line and can be deployed in the
gas fields within approximately a month of ASICs being
acquired.
Fortress continues to strategically evaluate
opportunities to acquire ASIC miners at a competitive $/TH (USD per
tera-hash) price to ensure a good return on capital invested for
the remaining 8 containers.
These remaining 8 containers are expected to
produce an additional 110 PH/s of Bitcoin mining hashrate, along
with the Company’s existing capacity of 52 PH/s from 4 containers.
Upon the deployment of all 12 containers and ASICs, the Company
expects to have 162 PH/s of Fortress/GAM containers in addition to
20 PH/s from the Company’s existing data center operations. This
would total 182 PH/s and generate approximately 36 Bitcoin per
month at current difficulty. The Company notes it is fully funded
for deploying the 12 containers with ASICs, and retains a strong
working capital balance for further business opportunities.
About Fortress Technologies
Fortress Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: FORT) is a
well-capitalized company focused on developing projects where
access to growth capital is highly valued, which can also advance
ESG and environmentally conscious business initiatives.
For further information, please contact:
Aydin KilicChief Executive Officer604 477
9997ir@fortressblockchain.io
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain
“forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities laws that are based on expectations, estimates
and projections as at the date of this news release. The
information in this release about future plans and objectives of
the Company, are forward-looking information. Other forward-looking
information includes but is not limited to information concerning:
the establishment and prospects for the Bitcoin mining venture with
Great American Mining (“GAM”); the intentions, plans and future
actions of the Company, as well as the Company’ ability to
successfully mine digital currency; revenue increasing as currently
anticipated; the ability to profitably liquidate current and future
digital currency inventory; volatility of network difficulty and,
digital currency prices and the resulting significant negative
impact on the Company’s operations; the construction and operation
of expanded blockchain infrastructure as currently planned; and the
regulatory environment of cryptocurrency in applicable
jurisdictions.
Any statements that involve discussions with
respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections,
objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but
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“is expected”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, “plans”,
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certain actions, events or results “may” or “could”, “would”,
“might” or “will” be taken to occur or be achieved) are not
statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking
information and are intended to identify forward-looking
information.
This forward-looking information is based on
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company
at the time it was made, and involves known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such
factors include, among others, risks relating to: there is no
assurance that the Company’s Bitcoin mining venture with GAM will
operate as expected on a commercial basis or at all; there is no
assurance that the Company will find other profitable undertakings
or that it can successfully conclude a purchase of such
undertakings at all or on terms which are commercially acceptable;
the status and impact of new electrical power rates and the status
of deliberations by the Grant County Public Utility District; risks
relating to the global economic climate; currency exchange risks;
the need for the Company to manage its planned growth and
expansion; the effects of product development and need for
continued technology change; protection of proprietary rights; the
effect of government regulation and compliance on the Company and
the industry; network security risks; the ability of the Company to
maintain properly working systems; reliance on key personnel;
global economic and financial market deterioration impeding access
to capital or increasing the cost of capital; and, volatile
securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to
operating performance. In addition, particular factors which
could impact future results of the business of the Company include
but are not limited to: the inability to operate the Bitcoin mining
venture with GAM on a profitable basis or at all and thereby
impairing the investment in the venture; failure to identify
beneficial business opportunities, failure to convert the potential
in the pursued business opportunities to tangible benefits to the
Company or its shareholders; the impact of new electrical power
rates which could impair profitability and operating performance;
deliberations by the Grant County Public Utility District which
could limit the ability of the Company to carry on business on a
profitable basis or at all; the construction and operation of
blockchain infrastructure may not occur as currently planned, or at
all; the digital currency market; the ability to successfully mine
digital currency; revenue may not increase as currently
anticipated, or at all; it may not be possible to profitably
liquidate the current digital currency inventory, or at all; a
decline in digital currency prices may have a significant negative
impact on operations; the volatility of digital currency prices;
the anticipated growth and sustainability of hydroelectricity for
the purposes of cryptocurrency mining in the Grant County of the
State of Washington; the ability to complete current and future
financings; any regulations or laws that will prevent the Company
from operating its business. In addition, particular factors which
could impact future results of the business of the Company include
but are not limited to: the ability to establish the Bitcoin mining
venture with GAM on the agreed schedule in accordance with the
contract terms and the potential for further improvements to
profitability and efficiency across mining operations; the
construction and operation of blockchain infrastructure may not
occur as currently planned, or at all; expansion may not
materialize as currently anticipated, or at all; the digital
currency market; the ability to successfully mine digital currency;
revenue may not increase as currently anticipated, or at all; it
may not be possible to profitably liquidate the current digital
currency inventory, or at all; a decline in digital currency prices
may have a significant negative impact on operations; an increase
in network difficulty may have a significant negative impact on
operations; the volatility of digital currency prices; the ability
to complete current and future financings; any regulations or laws
that will prevent the Company from operating its business;
historical prices of digital currencies and the ability to mine
digital currencies that will be consistent with historical prices;
an inability to predict and counteract the effects of COVID-19 on
the business of the Company, including but not limited to the
effects of COVID-19 on the price of digital currencies, capital
market conditions, restriction on labour and international travel
and supply chains; there will be no regulation or law that will
prevent the Company from operating its business; and those risks
set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. The
Company has also assumed that no significant events occur outside
of the Company’s normal course of business. Although the Company
has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause
results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can
be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as
actual results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not
place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company
undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking
information other than as required by law.
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