Bitcoin miner TeraWulf beat revenue and missed earnings expectations as it posted a 21% decline in the amount of Bitcoin it mined in the second quarter of 2024.
In an Aug. 2 second-quarter earnings report, the firm said it mined 699 Bitcoin (BTC) in the second quarter, a 21% decline year over year.
The firm reported second-quarter revenue of $35.6 million, slightly beating the consensus estimate of $35.4 million. However, it posted a quarterly loss of $0.03 per share, falling short of an estimated $0.02 loss per share.
The firm also noted a 243% increase in the cost to mine Bitcoin year over year, which saw mining expenditures rise from $6,688 per Bitcoin in Q2 2023 to $22,954 per Bitcoin in Q2 2024.
The firm explained that this was due to an “approximate doubling” in network difficulty in the same timeframe and April’s Bitcoin Halving, a scheduled event that halved the Bitcoin-denominated reward paid to miners for their efforts.
Meanwhile, TeraWulf said it remained committed to expanding into high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence in the year's second half.
The firm noted that it had begun construction on a new building at its Lake Mariner facility. The building is expected to contribute an additional 50 MW of infrastructure capacity when it comes online in the first quarter of 2025.
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On July 9, TeraWulf said it would expand into HPC and AI at its Lake Mariner location, committing an initial 2 MW block to the facility and purchasing a 128-GPU cluster from NVIDIA.
On July 8, TeraWulf’s chief strategy officer, Kerri Langlais, told Cointelegraph that the firm would consider a merger if it could widen its profit margins.
Discussions around Bitcoin miner merger and acquisition activity came after Riot Platforms attempted a “hostile” takeover of rival firm Bitfarms with a $950 million buyout offer in June, which ultimately failed.
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