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Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Sells Norwegian Unit After Country Removes Power Subsidy
Hive said it would likely not be able to meet the development conditions for the project without tax relief on electricity.
Por Jamie Crawley
Hive Blockchain Technologies (HVBTF), a publicly traded Canadian-based crypto mining company, has sold its Norwegian subsidiary, Kolos Norway AS, to the local municipality of Narvik.
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Under the deal, Hive transferred all shares of the unit to the Narvik municipality along with a $200,000 payment.
The company cites the Norwegian government's scrapping of a tax subsidy on electricity that was granted to crypto miners as a reason for the move.
This meant that it was improbable that Hive would be able to meet the development conditions of “this greenfield project,” according to an announcement by the company Monday. The land development rights were therefore impaired and written down to a zero valuation from $15 million in March 2019.
Hive Executive Chairman Frank Holmes described the situation as “unfortunate,” adding that the deal was made before he and Darcy Daubaras, the company’s chief financial officer, assumed their roles.
The company now plans to focus its mining operations on data centers in Sweden and Iceland, which mine ethereum continuously on the cloud, according to the announcement. Hive has also been ramping up its bitcoin mining operations with the purchase of more mining machines.
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