{"id":48278,"date":"2021-08-25T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48278"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:26:17","slug":"powerbridge-to-buy-5600-mining-rigs-for-bitcoin-and-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/powerbridge-to-buy-5600-mining-rigs-for-bitcoin-and-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerbridge to buy 5,600 mining rigs for Bitcoin and Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nasdaq-listed Chinese blockchain company Powerbridge Technologies has signed an agreement with Cryptodigital Holdings to purchase 5,600 mining devices for two leading cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/powerbridge-technologies-signed-a-purchase-agreement-for-5-600-btc-and-eth-mining-machines-301362459.html\"> \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441-\u0440\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0443<\/a>, deliveries are expected to begin in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The batch includes 2,000 ASIC miners for mining digital gold and 3,600 Ethereum mining rigs.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that after deploying the purchased Bitcoin miners, including Antminer S19, S19 Pro and others, they will deliver a hash rate of 200 PH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Mining devices for the second-largest cryptocurrency based on high-performance GPUs, including RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti, are expected to generate a total computational power of 1,700 GH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s President and Chief Financial Officer Stuart Lor said the company will continue investing in mining hardware for the two largest cryptocurrencies and increase its own hash rate across their networks.<\/p>\n<p>Powerbridge, whose core business is software development and blockchain applications, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nasdaq-listed-firm-worth-61m-to-pursue-bitcoin-mining\">announced<\/a> plans to commence mining on August 12.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news, the company&#8217;s shares jumped from the close price of $1.27 on August 11 to $2.10 \u2014 more than 65%. As of writing, pre-market trading values the stock at $1.47.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ZNHHucUyZAUoaJlZTHu7Pnb9NpFZCLa7G-rnWPdtSEM-ueuf5juCN2tZ4ThXhQTUGbBGbtFMz4CavrXH5lNdcxqbphRGoWfiNqwk-wyUVqWCybFWMWDAkrvKpjSgFzMtpIujIPEr=s0\\\" alt=\\\"Powerbridge Technologies to buy 5,600 mining rigs for Bitcoin and Ethereum\\\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/market-activity\/stocks\/pbts\\\">Nasdaq<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in January, the Chinese internet company The9 Ltd announced its entry into the mining industry. Within two days after the announcement, the company&#8217;s Nasdaq-listed shares <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the9-to-enter-mining-industry-as-shares-jump-140\">rose by 140%<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nasdaq-listed Chinese blockchain company Powerbridge Technologies has signed an agreement with Cryptodigital Holdings to purchase 5,600 mining devices for two leading cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-48278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48280,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48278\/revisions\/48280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}