Company: ANY
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001591956-25-000006
Chunk: 27

Company: Sphere 3D Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 27
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 efficiently we can earn Bitcoin and minimize cost to run the miner. Currently, we intend only to mine Bitcoin and we hold no other cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin. We do not have any power purchase agreements for the supply of power.

As of March 31, 2025, we held approximately 22.7 Bitcoin. The fair value of our Bitcoin as of March 31, 2025 was approximately $1.9 million on our consolidated balance sheet.

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Mining Pools

A mining pool is a service operated by a mining pool operator that pools the resources of individual miners to share their processing power over a network. Mining pools emerged in response to the growing difficulty and network hash rate competing for Bitcoin rewards on the Bitcoin blockchain as a way of lowering costs and reducing the risk of an individual miner’s mining activities. The mining pool operator coordinates the computing power of the independent mining enterprises participating in the mining pool. Mining pools are subject to various risks such as disruption and down time. In the event that a pool we utilize experiences down time or is not yielding returns, our results may be impacted.

We are engaged with a Bitcoin mining pool operator as our customer, to provide a service to perform hash calculations for the mining pool operator, which is our only performance obligation. Providing hash calculation services is an output of our ordinary activities. We have a service agreement with Foundry Digital LLC, a mining pool operator, to provide a service to perform hash calculations. In exchange for providing the service, we are entitled to Full Pay Per Share (“FPPS”), which is a fractional share of the fixed Bitcoin award the mining pool operator receives, plus a fractional share of the transaction fees attached to that blockchain less net Bitcoin fees due to the mining pool operator over the measurement period, as applicable. The pay-outs received are based on the expected value from the block reward plus the transaction fee reward, regardless of whether the mining pool operator successfully records a block to the blockchain. In the prior year, we also had a service agreement with an additional mining pool operator, Luxor Technology Corporation.

Our fractional share is based on a contractual formula, which primarily calculates the hashrate provided to the mining pool as a percentage of total network hashrate and other inputs. The contracts, which are less than 24 hours and continuously renew throughout the day, are terminable at any time by either party without compensation and our enforceable right to compensation only begins when we start providing the service to the mining pool operator, which begins daily at midnight Universal Time Coordinated (“UTC”).