Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001591956-25-000009
Chunk: 74

Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 74
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 of the Bitcoin mining business segment is to acquire highly specialized computer servers (known in the industry as “miners”), which operate application-specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) chips designed specifically to mine Bitcoin, and deploy such miners at-scale utilizing our hosting agreements. ASIC miners are the most effective and energy-efficient machines available today, and we believe deploying them at-scale, will enable us to continue growing our hashrate and optimize the output and longevity of our miners as they are deployed.

Our Bitcoin mining operation is focused on maximizing our ability to successfully mine Bitcoin by growing our hashrate (the amount of computer power we devote to supporting the Bitcoin blockchain), to increase our chances of successfully creating new blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain (a process known as “proof of work”). Generally, the greater share of the Bitcoin blockchain’s total network hashrate (the aggregate hashrate deployed to solving a block on the Bitcoin blockchain) a miner’s hashrate represents, the greater that miner’s chances of solving a block and, therefore, earning the block reward. As the proliferation of Bitcoin continues and the market price for Bitcoin increases, we expect additional miner operators to enter the market in response to an increased demand for Bitcoin which we anticipate to follow increased Bitcoin prices. As these new miner operators enter the market and as increasingly powerful miners are deployed in an attempt to solve a block, the Bitcoin blockchain’s network hashrate grows, meaning an existing miner must increase its hashrate at pace commensurate with the growth of network hashrate to maintain its relative chance of solving a block and earning a block reward. As we expect this trend to continue, we will need to continue growing our hashrate to compete in our dynamic and highly competitive industry.

As of June 30, 2025, we owned approximately 13,000 miners, of which approximately 5,600 were in service, and a total hashrate capacity of 0.73 exahash per second (“EH/s”). We are strategizing for our future growth by refreshing a significant portion of our fleet with newer-generation machines to bolster efficiency, and starting from March 2025, we have a self-owned 8 megawatt (“MW”) facility in Iowa. Vertically integrating with self-owned facilities, such as the Iowa site, allows us to reduce our reliance on third-parties and decrease our overall cost to mine a Bitcoin. As a result of our strategic changes, during the latter part of 2024 and ongoing, mining production has decreased as we focused on our long