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Good day. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Bitfarms Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.I would now like to turn the conference over to David Barnard of LHA Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Bitfarms conference call for the third quarter of 2021. With me on the call today is Emiliano Grodzki, Chief Executive Officer of Bitfarms; Geoff Morphy, President; and Jeff Lucas, Chief Financial Officer.Before we begin, please note, this call is being webcast live with an accompanying presentation. To watch along with the slides, you can log on to our website under Investors, under Presentations. If you prefer to listen to the call on your smartphone, you can download the presentation from there as well. I would like to remind you that shortly after the market close today or momentarily, Bitfarms' issued a press release announcing its third quarter 2021 financial results.Turning to Slide 2. I'd like to remind you that certain statements that we make during the conference call may constitute forward-looking statements, and these statements include Bitfarms cautions and listeners to that forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations of the company. Listeners should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements. Please see today's press release and refer to those risks set out in Bitfarms' public documents filed on www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov/edgar. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking information or statements other than as required by applicable securities laws.During this call, the company will refer to certain measures not recognized under IFRS, and they do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may be comparable to -- not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. The company uses the following non-IFRS measures: gross mining profit, gross mining margin, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin, as additional information to complement IFRS measures to provide a further understanding of the company's results of operations from management's perspective.Gross mining profit is defined as gross profit, excluding depreciation and amortization and other minor items included in cost of sales for the mining segment of the company. Gross mining margin is defined as a percentage obtained when dividing gross mining profit by revenues for the mining segment of the company. Direct cost of production represents the direct cost of bitcoin based on the total electricity costs and hosting costs related to the mining of bitcoin divided by the total of bitcoin mined.We invite listeners to refer today's earnings release and the company's Q3 2021 Management's Discussion and Analysis for definitions of the aforementioned non-IFRS measures and their reconciliations to IFRS measures. Please note that all financial references are denominated in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise noted.Today, Geoff Morphy will review our operations for the quarter. CFO, Jeffrey Lucas, will follow with a detailed rental review. And CEO, Emiliano Grodzki, will close with a review of our vision and expectations. We have requested investors to send questions in advance, which I will read to management after we open the call to analysts interested in live Q&A.And now turning to Slide 3. It's my pleasure to turn the call over to Geoff Morphy. Geoff, over to you.
Thank you, David. I'd like to extend a warm welcome to everyone on today's call.The third quarter of 2021 was a resounding success for Bitfarms, as demonstrated by growth in our operational and financial metrics, many of which were at record levels. We increased production across many of our facilities, which, in turn, increased our hash rate, and I'm excited to announce that we have now exceeded 2 exa hash per second.During the third quarter, we mined 1,051 bitcoin, a 38% sequential increase over the second quarter of 2021, and we lowered our average cost of production to approximately $6,900 per bitcoin from $9,000 per bitcoin in the second quarter of 2021.While on the topic of costs, just last week, we acquired a new facility in Washington State that has an even lower cost of production and is currently averaging about $4,000 per bitcoin. These metrics are a true testament to our investment in growth and the dedication of the Bitfarms team. This acquisition brings us to 6 farms in operation, 5 in Quebec and 1 in the United States with another 4 farms under construction in Canada, Paraguay and Argentina.As of today, we have created capacity of 106 megawatts, up from 69 megawatts on June 30. We have also an additional 298 megawatts under development that are expected to come online in 2022. With our 10 farms operational and in development, our total planned capacity has reached 404 megawatts. Combined with our aggressive minor purchases and installations, we have increased our hash rate to over 2 exa hash per second or about 2.4x more than where it was 12 months ago and increased our daily bitcoin production to almost 12 bitcoin per day.Jeff Lucas will provide more financial details in a moment. First, I will review some important highlights. During the third quarter, we grew our total revenues to a record $44.8 million, up 22% sequentially from the second quarter of 2021 and over 550% year-over-year from $6.8 million in the third quarter of 2020. Gross mining profit reached $35.4 million, another record. Our total liquidity, which includes cash and our bitcoin inventory, rose to $144.5 million. Please turn to Slide 4. Bitfarms continues to attract many new investors. As a reminder to new investors, Bitfarms is one of the largest and most profitable bitcoin miners in the world. Since our beginning in 2017, we have been a vertically integrated, decentralized, global self-mining operation. Our strong in-house capabilities and infrastructure, including our repair center and our wholly owned electrical contractor subsidiary with over 30 licensed electricians, help ensure that we remain as one of the lowest-cost miners in the industry.Our strategy continues to be to diversify our mining portfolio by prioritizing locations with cost-effective electricity. Our decentralized farms reduce the risk of interruption while enabling further growth. We will take advantage of our investment and knowledge of these geographies to take -- to seize upon additional opportunities. As was the case late last year and this year, we continue to aggressively seek out attractive opportunities to expand our business in multiple geographies.Turning to Slide 5. As mentioned, we recently acquired a fully operational facility in Washington State. This means we now have our first wholly owned operation in the United States, the largest country for bitcoin mining. This highly accretive transaction builds upon and terminates our only hosting agreement, which had been for 12 megawatts. This turnkey operation has 24 megawatts of capacity, 620 peta hash and 3.7 in daily bitcoin production as well as contracts for hydro power with rates of just $0.026 to $0.031 per kilowatt or 25% less in our Quebec farms.Prior to the change of control, we had already installed a number of new S19j Pro miners. Now as we are working with our previous hosting partner, the integration has been quite smooth. Also, as part of this transaction, we entered into a memorandum of understanding to co-develop an expansion of a 75-megawatt substation. If completed, this would increase the total Washington State operations capacity to as much as 99 megawatts.I am proud that development efforts in multiple geographies continue on track, and we have made significant strides in all facets of operations. I will now summarize some other recent activities.Please turn to Slide 6. In Cowansville, Quebec, we completely rebuilt our original farm. We leveraged all our latest site development and design expertise from building 5 farms over the last 4 years. Some advantages we incorporated include adjusting the transformer placement to reduce wiring, improving the intake in exhaust airflow and substantially reducing sound emissions. During the rebuild process, we took advantage of our contractual opportunity to boost our capacity from our original 4 megawatts to 17 megawatts.Turning to Slide 7. In the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, we reached an agreement with the city to cooperatively develop 3 new farms. And as part of our cooperation agreement signed in early September, we agreed to eventually retire the original farm located there. In doing so, we plan to increase our capacity by 78 megawatts to a total of 96 megawatts. And in addition, we utilized expertise using the latest in-sound mitigation design and technology to update the original farm and substantially reduce its operating decibel levels and to apply the same expertise to reduce sound propagation at our other farms where residents are in close proximity.During the past 60 days, we initiated work on 2 new farms, which we refer to as Leger and The Bunker. During the past 2 weeks, I visited both sites. At the Leger site, the concrete for the footing has been poured. We expect the construction of the 30-megawatt farm to progress over the remainder of 2021 and operations to commence in the first and second quarters of 2022. The Bunker, a substantial building is being built in 3 phases. We expect to turn on 18 megawatts in the first quarter of 2022, another 18 megawatts in the second quarter of 2022 and the final 12 megawatts in the second half of 2022.Turning to Slide 8. In Paraguay, we initiated construction of a 10-megawatt facility. This project is moving quickly, and as previously reported, we expect to complete the build-out within the next month and start initial production on schedule by year-end. In the slides, you can see the process -- the progress on the building located in Asunción, the largest city in Paraguay.Turning to Slide 9. In Argentina, the engineering, design and development work are complete, and site preparation is underway. The 210-megawatt facility will consist of 4-megawatt-style buildings inside the gates of a private power company, which will utilize available and otherwise stranded power.As previously reported, we have contracted power at an attractive rate of just USD 0.022 per kilowatt hour, which will substantially reduce our already low cost of mining bitcoin. In October, we signed engineering contracts and commenced construction. The farm is expected to accommodate over 55,000 miners, including many of the 48,000 latest-generation MicroBT miners that Bitfarms purchased in early 2021.Talking about miners, please turn to Slide 10. This summer, after the Chinese government's announcement to curtail bitcoin mining, we took advance of uncertain market conditions to renegotiate some of the terms of these purchase orders. We were able to fix the average purchase price of the 48,000 miners at about $38.50 per tera hash, which is a considerable reduction from previous market prices and current prices of around $80 to $100 per tera hash. In so doing, we reduced the overall cost of this order by an estimated $200 million to $250 million. Based on current economics and gross costs, these miners have an expected ROI of approximately 125 days and have an economic and useful life, which should surpass 5 years.This was a substantial accomplishment brought about by swift action during an unexpected market dynamics. The 48,000 miners we ordered are still scheduled to be delivered on an equal monthly basis through 2022. The initial monthly deliveries will all be deployed at our existing facilities and facilities currently under construction in Quebec.Regarding our 2021 minor deliveries. 1,290 were delivered prior to the end of the third quarter. So far, in the fourth quarter of 2021, 3,670 miners have been delivered. They helped boost our hash rate to over 2 exa hash per second this past weekend. Over the remaining 2 weeks in November, we are supposed to receive almost 3,200 additional miners.The flexible deployment of our mining assets is a key part of our ongoing fleet optimization strategy. We monitor and move miners to where they will be most efficient. Older miners, even those that are fully depreciated, can make economic sense to continue production when located in farms utilizing low-cost energy. Shortly, we will start to relocate a substantial number of older and less efficient miners to our new farm in Paraguay.And last, our average daily production now stands at about 12 bitcoin per day, which, based on recent prices of about $63,500 per bitcoin, equates to approximately $762,000 per day in daily revenue. As construction of our new farms progresses, in the next few months, we will increase capacity, install new miners and continue to grow our hash rate. Toward that end, we remain confident in achieving our goals of 3 exa hash per second by March 31, 2022 and 8 exa hash per second by December 31, 2022.Please turn to Slide 11. I will now hand the call over to Jeff Lucas.
Thank you, Geoff. On to a detailed review of our third quarter. Please note that approximately 97% of our revenue and approximately 99% of our gross profits are contributed by our mining with the remainder from Volta Electrique, a 100% wholly owned electrical contractor subsidiary. Today, I will discuss our mining metrics.In the third quarter of 2021, we generated record quarterly mining revenues of $43.5 million, 7x greater than the $6.1 million in the third quarter of 2020, reflecting our success in rapidly expanding our footprint, the increase in the average price of bitcoin and the increase in Bitfarms' hash rate, combined with a decrease in overall network difficulties. During that time, we increased the company's hash rate by 142 peta hash per second or 11% to 1,490 peta hash per second at September 30. Today, we reported that our hash rate exceeded 2 exa hash, a 35% increase since the end of the quarter.On to gross mining profit. In the third quarter of 2021, we reached a record $35.4 million, up sequentially from $28.1 million in the second quarter of 2021. Our gross mining margin expanded to 82% from 79% in the second quarter or an increase of over 3 percentage points. This improvement is attributable to several factors, including the fact that we are actively purchasing more efficient miners that are beginning to yield more bitcoin per miner, and we plan to continue to do so in the future; and the fact that we benefited from the ban of mining in China that reduced the average network competition difficulty for a period of time.For these reasons, our average third quarter 2021 direct cost of production for bitcoin decreased to about $6,900 from $9,000 in the second quarter of 2021. Furthermore, with the Washington acquisition, we have eliminated our only hosting agreement, which we expect will further improve our margins. Overall, we continue to focus on being a low-cost producer, and we actively drive efficiency towards this objective in all of our operations and as we pursue growth opportunities. As Geoff mentioned earlier, our recent acquisition in Washington State comes with a direct cost of production of just $4,000 per bitcoin, which is well below our production costs during the third quarter.Turning now to a review of our bottom line improvement. Including a gain of $13.9 million for the revaluation of our bitcoin holdings at September 30, 2021, a $1.9 million pickup on the reversal of impairment charges on earlier generation minus an existing infrastructure, net income rose to a record $23.7 million in the quarter or $0.13 per fully diluted share. This compares to a net loss in the third quarter of 2020 of $4.8 million, which, including a $557,000 loss on disposition of miners, equates to a net loss per basic share of $0.06.In the third quarter of 2021, adjusted EBITDA was $31.9 million, up from $23.8 million in the second quarter 2021, an increase from approximately breakeven in the prior year period. As a result, our adjusted EBITDA margin was 71% in the third quarter, up from 65% in the second quarter of 2021. Turning to Slide 12, we'll now review the balance sheet. We ended the third quarter with cash of approximately $43.3 million and $101.2 million in bitcoin for total liquidity of $144.5 million, up from total liquidity of $5.9 million, consisting of cash only at December 31, 2020.The cash position reflects a solid financing activity totaling just under $200 million for the 9 months ended September 30, 2021; $114.5 million in net proceeds from private placements completed in the first half of 2021; $60.4 million from the exercise of warrants and stock options; $35.2 million in net proceeds from the sale of 6.3 million shares under our ATM program launched in August 16, 2021 at an average share price of approximately $5.75; and financing of $10.5 million -- excuse me, $10.9 million in new long-term debt, offset by repayments of $21.4 million to retire existing long-term debt, repay lease liabilities and for other financing costs.During the 9 months, the financing proceeds were mainly used to invest $57.4 million in mining and infrastructure equipment as well as to make prepayments totaling $75 million in future miner deliveries, in addition to the funds being used to expand our existing bitcoin retention program.Since the end of the quarter to November 12, we have issued an additional 12.4 million shares under the ATM program at an average price of $6.06 per share for net proceeds of $72.6 million. Since the inception of the ATM program in August 2021, total shares issued under the program were $18.7 million, contributing net proceeds of approximately $108 million. The average price per share sold in the ATM program was $5.96 overall.This brings us to a discussion of our financing strategy. Our key goals are to fund our planned rapid growth and to maintain sufficient flexibility to enable us to act quickly or an opportunity to be identified, all at a relatively low overall cost of capital. The ATM program remains one of our financing options, but it is not the only one. We use the ATM judiciously as a source of funding to pursue our business plan and growth opportunities. It supported our recent acquisition in Washington State, payments from miner deliveries in the third and fourth quarters of this year and the opportunistic purchase of miners.During the third quarter, we continued to grow our asset base, both in bitcoin and miners. We intend to leverage these assets for nondilutive financing at relatively attractive rates. We are presently evaluating bitcoin-backed facilities as well as equipment financing programs. And while we have already raised $108 million with the ATM program, this flexible financing facility remains in place in the 22 months outstanding on this term. In addition, with approximately 12 BTC mined daily, the number of bitcoin in our balance sheet continues to grow, adding to overall liquidity and funding capabilities.We operate in a capital-intensive business with strong margins. Our payback period from investing in new miners is quite short at just 7 to 9 months, although these assets generally have a useful life of 5 years or longer. Given this capital intensity and the short payback periods, one of the goals of our financing strategy has been and continues to be ensuring the necessary financial flexibility and liquidity for plans and opportunistic purchases of miners in full support of our growth strategy. Being able to move quickly and decisively in this regard continues to be a key advantage for Bitfarms.Turning to Slide 13. I'll now turn the call over to Emi, who will close our prepared remarks before opening the call up for Q&A. Emi?
Thank you, Jeff. As Jeff noted, we recently achieved 2 exa hash per second and delivered many financial records this quarter. We are continuing to execute on our growth strategy. Our presence is truly global with our footprint now expanded to 4 countries. Canada and the United States are in production. We expect to begin operation in Paraguay by year-end, and the Argentina site development continues to be on track. We expect this effort to continue to contribute to strong gains in our hash rate and market share. In summary, building a portfolio of funds in multiple geographies under centralized location is part of our strategic plan to rapidly expand and diversify production operations. Today, we have a combined total of 10 farms in operation and development with planned capacity of 404 megawatts and 48,000 miners slated for delivery in 2022. With our strengthened balance sheet and flexible capital plan, we are well positioned to reach our targeted exa hash rate of 3 by March 31, 2022 and 8 by December 31, 2022.Operator, we can now open up the call for questions. Please go ahead. Thank you.
[Operator Instructions]
This is David Barnard with LHA Investor Relations. And we have a number of questions that came in from investors, and I could start with some of those. Regarding Washington...
We have nobody queued, so please go ahead.
No, no, no. Queue me. Yes. Hello. This is David Barnard with LHA Investor Relations. And I have some questions that came in from investors.
Okay, David, go ahead.
Regarding Washington, Geoff, can we expect these type of acquisitions going forward? And are there other acquisitions being pursued or in consideration? And finally, as a follow-on to that part of it, what would be considered too big to handle or perhaps too small to be worth the effort?
Thanks, David. It's a good question. Just to give investors some background, we've been actively looking at opportunities, inorganic opportunities, to buy companies and assets going back to last December. As you know, as of a week ago, we've only closed one of those transactions, and that was Washington, for 24 megawatts.I think in terms of size, we wouldn't be interested in looking at anything less than 10 to 20 megawatts of size because that's about the size that makes sense to make it worthwhile for us. We certainly are more attracted to the bigger opportunities where there's scale.We've seen quite a few private company opportunities with midsized companies, but they don't really have a distinctive advantage in terms of electricity contracts, and their miners have been getting old. And it's basically, as the story goes, it's -- they don't have access to capital. They can't upgrade their fleet. And as a result, without an attractive electricity contract and an aging fleet, it's not very attractive to us. But if there's an opportunity that comes around, whether it's private or public, where there is a good electricity contract, a half decent team and a good layout, we'd be very interested in taking a look, and I expect we'll continue to see opportunities.The life cycle hypothesis suggests that there will be a consolidation in this industry coming, and I think we're just starting to see parts of it now. So our eyes are open. And because of our team and our expertise of deploying new facilities, I think we're an attractive partner for anybody that wants to come to us, particularly given our growing international expertise.
Great. Thanks, Geoff. Got another question here, and maybe this is for Jeff Lucas. What do you plan to do with the additional funds raised with the ATM going forward?
Well, David, I think our intention is to really, first of all, is that we're going to continue funding the growth initiatives and expansion efforts that we have currently going on in Canada as well as in Paraguay and certainly Argentina.In addition, we are -- as we pointed out or attempted to point out certainly in the previous session of this call, is that we are always very opportunistic in terms of finding additional miner opportunities. It's not unusual for us to be approached by any of the major manufacturers and an opportunity where we can get very favorable pricing, but we need to be positioned to move quickly. It's our goal to make sure that we have the financial flexibility to do so. And lastly, we also want to be capable and in a position to support a lot of the opportunities that Geoff spoke, to which may arise relatively suddenly.
And Jeff, while you're hearing some financial questions, maybe I'll put one to you that an investor had. Why are you not getting the full economic benefit of your bitcoin holdings? And what's your plan in your future regarding those bitcoin holdings?
Well, we do have a substantial asset base in bitcoin, and we are actually taking actions now to take advantage of that. And I really think it manifests itself in 2 forms, one of which is engaging into, what we call, BTC collateralized loan facilities. Those are at relatively attractive interest rates for us, and the benefit of that certainly, is that this enables us to continue our holder strategy with the bitcoin that we mine, and we can meet and address our operating finances actually through the additional borrowings here.And we are, as you -- not surprisingly, very bullish on bitcoin overall, and we really feel very strongly that the upside potential of bitcoin is much greater than the incremental cost of capital from entering to these facilities. So for us, it makes a great deal of sense to use that in terms of bitcoin collateralized facility. I will comment, though, I know some of our peers in The Street use it as a means of generating yields. And while we are always exploring opportunities such as that, we are very, very careful in terms of the custodial responsibilities, in counterparty risk. We want to make sure that we've got that fully addressed and understood before we go venture into that area. And quite frankly, while there are returns in doing so, the yield historically are maybe, what, 2% to 4% or so. We're not in a position quite yet to make the assessment that, that's worth the additional risk that's being incurred on the part of the counterparty.
Okay. Great. And another question, too, regarding your bitcoin mining production, which, as of right now, is about 12 per day. And how do you expect that to change as you're increasing your hash rate in the future?
Thanks, David, it's Geoff Morphy. I'll take that one.With Washington coming online and miners being delivered last week, we just surpassed the 2 exa hash mark, as I mentioned in my remarks. That means we are generating 11.5, 11.6, 11.7 bitcoin per day right now, very close to the 12 bitcoin number. And we have, as I also mentioned, just under 3,200 miners arriving over the next couple of weeks, in fact, about 3,191 miners. And we expect that will take us up to about 14 bitcoin per day once they're installed over the next couple of weeks. I hope that answers the question, David.
Yes. Great. Speaking of miners, could you -- well, maybe just a little more color on that one. Can you provide an update on the deployment of the recently purchased miners and kind of year-to-date what to expect in terms of your hash rate going forward and into Q1?
Okay. The new miners, which have been a combination of the Bitmain S19j Pros and the Whatsminer M30S series, more of the Bitmain and the MicroBT miners, we have, in September, received 1,290 of them. They were split between Washington and our updated Cowansville facility.In October, we shipped most of the S19j Pro miners to Washington to upgrade and fill out that facility. Some of the M30S miners were deployed in Cowansville. So far, in November, we've had 5 shipments. They've all been the S19j Pros. They've all gone to Washington. And then the remaining almost 3,200 miners, most -- over half of them are going to Washington. Some are going to Cowansville, and some are going to St-Hyacinthe to upgrade that facility and prepare for -- to take out some of the older miners out of that facility and get them ready for Paraguay.So right now, we're over 2 exa hash. That number will be increasing as these miners are plugged in over the next couple of weeks. And then we're going to turn on Paraguay, get some initial production there before the end of the year. And we expect The Bunker -- Phase 1 of The Bunker to start coming on early next year as well. So it's through those developments that we expect to hit 3 exa hash on target by the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Great. One other question we have here gets back to the -- maybe the economics and looking at your direct cost of bitcoin, it went down in Q3 from Q2. And do you see it going down further in the fourth quarter? And maybe just a little color on kind of the drivers in terms of those costs.
Jeff Lucas, I think that's a good question for you to handle.
Sure, I'll take that one. So starting off, the easier response, initially, the fact that there are macro factors at play here, obviously, during the period, the overall difficulty during the quarter was lower than it was in the second quarter. That was a significant driver of the lower cost. But it's also very important to recognize some other attributes here as well, one of which is as pointed out, we are getting now put in place more efficient miners. And so therefore, by generating a lot more tera hash, by having a lot more tera hash per wattage makes a big difference there.Secondly, we're also getting some of the benefits and the fact that, as we pointed out before, that the -- some of the costs, including the energy cost in Washington are less expensive. We're going to be getting the benefits of those going forward, even though from the low cost that we see at $0.04 per kilowatt hour that we currently have in Canada. So those are some of the drivers behind that. In addition to that, as we have more bitcoin, we obviously also have the benefits of having a larger base over our fixed cost. Now fixed cost in the mining business, as many of you are aware, is not a very large portion of the overall cost structure, but still, that does make a contribution.So overall, we benefited from a macro perspective in terms of what's happening in China. We've also put in place and effectuated a lot of efficiencies there that have made a difference in our overall cost.The last thing that comes into play here that I do want to add here is that during the second and third quarter, the portion of our bitcoin was generated in facilities where we utilize hosting services. And as many of you are aware, there is a profit-sharing arrangement with that, which can have a very material impact on the cost of that bitcoin.And so I will tell you that what we indicate here in terms of our bitcoin costs for the second and third quarters, that's about $400 to $600 per bitcoin more in terms of the cost. And without having that into the -- going in now the fourth quarter here, that's certainly going to help our overall bitcoin costs going forward.
Great. And maybe just I have one more that you can take from the investors out there and kind of sum up with kind of a long-term corporate plan, the corporate strategy. It's really what are Bitfarms' plans beyond 2022. And maybe just to get some highlights what you're looking at in 2022. And then after that, what -- where do you think the strategy is going?
David, let me start with the question, then I can let Emi or Jeff jump in after me. 2022 is going to be just such an exciting year for us as we grow from the 2 exa hash mark where we are now, the 3 exa hash in the first quarter, the 8 exa hash by the end of next year. And that will be bringing on the full production from our new facilities in Quebec, bringing on the full capabilities in Argentina and as well as Paraguay. I expect there's probably other opportunities in Washington and, hopefully, Quebec to even go beyond that.But 2022 is a year in which we need to execute. We've told investors since March that it's time to really lay it down, and that's what we plan to do. But we have been building on the team in Canada and the United States. We've been building on a team in South America, and we're structured for success. The team is expanding, and we've got some great talent, and we're going to be adding some more in the next little while to make sure that we do this efficiently and have the team to steward this company into the future.But beyond 2022, I think we've been strategic about this. We've said that we're going to look for additional opportunities in Canada. Quebec is a wonderful province with a lot of hydroelectricity. There's other places in Canada that we were in discussions as well.The United States, in Washington, hydroelectric power, the Colombia provides a lot of hydroelectric power in that area. There's opportunities there, both for organic and inorganic expansion, and down in South America. As people have started to understand what we do, we're getting interest from a lot of the different quarters in a lot of different countries.So I expect we will carry on and find additional opportunities in Argentina, in Paraguay and perhaps some of the other countries in South America as well. Plus, we have some other early-stage discussions elsewhere in the world as well. So I think the type of investment that we've done in our team and our know-how is really going to pay dividends, and I'm excited about taking that forward in 2022 and beyond. Any -- Jeff, anything to add?
Well, this is Jeff here. The only comment I'd make is the one thing that we're very, very excited about is we've got a very, very talented team of both operators and developers. And as Geoff pointed earlier on this call here, we do get approached by a number of folks who either have maybe a power contract in hand or have some property that's maybe an ideal location in their mind. And we are well positioned to be the ones who really best to make that assessment and that evaluation, to develop a very, very effective plan and then to operate that.We are on our sixth consideration of farm design. We've learned an awful lot over these past 4 years here. And we are in a position to build these things very, very quickly and efficiently and have a very, very effective operation for that. That's one of our greatest trends, and that's where there's a huge amount of leverage for us then exists going forward.
Thank you, Jeff. As Geoff and Jeff mentioned, I believe that the best asset that we have is the team, technologies. We are really operators. We understand pretty well how work our industry. It's all about efficiency dimension. We have -- I believe that we have a very clear vision for where this industry is going. We have a solid plan in place. I'm sure that we will see plenty of new opportunities during the next year for continuous -- turning more efficient and efficient our company for -- prepare the company for the next halving. I'm very glad to have this team and growing day by day and continuous learning and deploying all of our power.
Great Thanks, Emi. I don't see -- operator, I don't see any further questions. Maybe we just hand it back to Geoff Morphy for a couple of closing remarks.
Okay, David, thank you. Well, thank you all for attending today's conference call. We are focused on being one of the largest and most profitable bitcoin miners, and we look forward to updating you about our progress in the future. Please note, we will be presenting at the Ladenburg Thalman Virtual Tech Expo on November 18 and the Riley Crypto Conference on December 8.So with that, I thank you for coming to our call and listening to us, and have a good evening. Thank you.
Thank you all.
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