Cango Inc., a Shanghai-based automotive transaction service platform, introduced that it had accomplished the $256M cash-settled acquisition of on-rack crypto mining machines with 32 EH/s of hashrate from Bitmain. The firm had beforehand introduced this acquisition on November 6, along with the proposed $144M share-settled acquisition of extra on-rack mining machines with 18 EH/s of hashrate from Golden TechGen.
Cango particularly purchased the on-rack miners from Bitmain Technologies Georgia Limited and Bitmain Development Limited (collectively ‘Bitmain’), indicating that Bitmain may proceed serving as Cango’s colocation supplier.
The cash-settled transaction was concluded after the related closing circumstances had been glad. Closing of the share-settled transaction was topic to sure closing circumstances which might be but to be glad.
Cango Inc. deploys its unspecified Bitcoin miners to supply 363.9 BTC
Cango Inc., a Chinese auto companies big, leveled up from automobiles to crypto-mining dominance by spending $256 million for 32 EH/s of hashrate from Bitmain. Cango and Bitmain closed the cash-settled deal by assigning all of the mining machines’ hash computing energy to the corporate. The switch of the machines’ authorized title to the corporate is, nonetheless, anticipated to happen later, as agreed by each firms.
The firm dove head-first into Bitcoin mining to vital leads to November after mining 363.9 BTC with the deployed miners. The manufacturing made Cango the third-largest publicly traded firm by deployed hashrate and the fifth-largest by realized hashrate. The firm averaged a manufacturing of 18.85 BTC per day and didn’t promote any of its Bitcoin produced in November, which left its complete BTC holding at 363.9 BTC. Its deployed hashrate of 32 EH/s managed a median working hashrate of 29.75 EH/s.
Cango Inc. didn’t specify the mannequin of the on-rack mining machines it received from Bitmain, though the unit price of $8 per TH/s instructed that it might have acquired 50 EH/s of the Antminer S19XP collection imported by Bitmain since 2023.
Blockspace Media confirmed the mannequin of Cango’s preliminary fleet, citing an individual near the matter who talked about that the miners consisted totally of Antminer S19XPs.
Cango Inc’s inventory value skyrockets after the primary month of BTC mining
Cango Inc. reported that this yr’s Q3 income got here in at $3.84 million as of November 30. The firm’s Bitcoin mining income in November alone was already a couple of occasions increased than its income from quarter 2 of 2024. Its shares additionally jumped from $3.41 in mid-November to $6.91 as of December 17, reaching a market cap of over $500M. The firm’s internet hosting prices are but to be revealed within the fourth quarter earnings report, however its complete present belongings as of September 30 was $564 million.
Jiayuan Lin, Cango’s CEO, mentioned the corporate’s total enterprise efficiency remained secure within the third quarter of 2024. He added that the strong outcomes had been primarily pushed by the corporate’s strict price management and threat administration methods, considerably bettering its operational effectivity. Lin mentioned the corporate bolstered monitoring mechanisms and threat assessments, successfully sustaining a low nonperformance mortgage ratio and guaranteeing asset high quality and stability.
Lin disclosed that Cango is concentrated on high-quality tasks that complement the corporate’s core competencies. He added that the corporate goals to showcase its energy and imaginative and prescient on a broader stage. Lin mentioned the corporate is eager on strengthening its knowledge evaluation capabilities to achieve a extra correct understanding of its goal markets and person demographics. According to the CEO, Cango will construct on this basis to realize extra balanced international development.
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