Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq | TSX: HUT) (“Hut 8” or the “Company”), one of
North America’s largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining
pioneers, and high performance computing infrastructure provider,
announced today that, together with its subsidiary, Hut 8 Mining
Corp. (the “Borrower”), it has entered into an amendment and
restatement of its credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with a
subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN) (“Coinbase”), as
lender, in connection with the extension of an additional loan in
the amount of US$15M (the “New Loan”) to the Borrower, increasing
the aggregate principal amount of the loans under the Credit
Facility to US$65 million.
The New Loan is expected to be used for general corporate
purposes and funded at or shortly following closing.
All amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility will bear
interest at a rate equal to (a) the greater of (i) the federal
funds rate on the date of the applicable borrowing, and (ii) 3.25%,
plus (b) 5.0%. The Credit Facility matures 364 days after the date
of the first borrowing.
The obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by the
Borrower’s interest in certain Bitcoin held in the custody of
Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC and are guaranteed by the
Company.
About Hut 8
Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 Corp.’s
seasoned executive team is bullish on creating value at the
intersection of infrastructure and energy through Bitcoin mining
and hosting, groundbreaking managed services, energy arbitrage,
operating traditional data centers, and capitalizing on emerging
technologies like AI and machine learning. Headquartered in Miami,
Florida, Hut 8 Corp.’s infrastructure portfolio includes eleven
sites: five high performance computing data centers across
British Columbia and Ontario that offer cloud, co-location, AI,
machine learning, and VFX rendering computing solutions, and six
Bitcoin mining, hosting, and managed services sites located in
Alberta, New York, Nebraska, and Texas. Long-distinguished for
its unique treasury strategy, Hut 8 Corp. has one of the highest
inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any publicly-traded company
globally. For more information, visit www.hut8.com and follow us on
X (formerly known as Twitter) at @Hut8Mining.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward–Looking
Information
This press release includes "forward-looking information" and
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian
securities laws and United States securities laws, respectively
(collectively, "forward-looking information"). All information,
other than statements of historical facts, included in this press
release that address activities, events or developments that Hut 8
expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including
such things as future business strategy, competitive strengths,
goals, expansion and growth of the business, operations, plans and
other such matters is forward-looking information. Forward-looking
information is often identified by the words "may", "would",
"could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "allow",
"believe", "estimate", "expect", "predict", "can", "might",
"potential", "predict", "is designed to", "likely" or similar
expressions. Specifically, such forward-looking information
included in this press release includes, but is not limited to,
statements relating to the expected use of proceeds from the Credit
Facility and the Company’s ability to draw the New Loan.
Statements containing forward-looking information are not
historical facts, but instead represent management's expectations,
estimates and projections regarding future events based on certain
material factors and assumptions at the time the statement was
made. While considered reasonable by Hut 8 as of the date of this
press release, such statements are subject to known and unknown
risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause
the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information, including but not limited to, security
and cybersecurity threats and hacks, malicious actors or botnet
obtaining control of processing power on the Bitcoin network,
further development and acceptance of the Bitcoin network, changes
to Bitcoin mining difficulty, loss or destruction of private keys,
increases in fees for recording transactions in the Blockchain,
erroneous transactions, reliance on a limited number of key
employees, reliance on third party mining pool service providers,
regulatory changes, classification and tax changes, momentum
pricing risk, fraud and failure related to digital asset exchanges,
difficulty in obtaining banking services and financing, difficulty
in obtaining insurance, permits and licenses, internet and power
disruptions, geopolitical events, uncertainty in the development of
cryptographic and algorithmic protocols, uncertainty about the
acceptance or widespread use of digital assets, failure to
anticipate technology innovations, the COVID19 pandemic, climate
change, currency risk, lending risk and recovery of potential
losses, litigation risk, business integration risk, changes in
market demand, changes in network and infrastructure, system
interruption, changes in leasing arrangements, failure to achieve
intended benefits of power purchase agreements, potential for
interrupted delivery, or suspension of the delivery, of energy to
the Company's mining sites, and other risks related to the digital
asset and data center business. For a complete list of the factors
that could affect the Company, please see the "Risk Factors"
section of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated
November 7, 2023, available under the Company's EDGAR profile at
www.sec.gov, in addition to the "Risk Factors" section of the
Company's Annual Information Form dated March 9, 2023, and Hut 8's
other continuous disclosure documents which are available under the
Company's SEDAR+ profile at www.sedarplus.ca and under the
Company's EDGAR profile at www.sec.gov.
Hut 8 Corp. Investor Relations
Sue Ennis
sue@hut8.io
Hut 8 Corp. Media Relations
Erin Dermer
erin.dermer@hut8.io
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