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EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT 2021 - Q3
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Rachel Silverstein

Welcome everyone. On behalf CleanSpark Inc., I welcome you to our Third Fiscal Quarter financial results conference call. My name is Rachel Silverstein, I'm CleanSpark 's VP of compliance and General Counsel. With us today with prepared remarks are CleanSpark 's Chief Executive Officer Zach Bradford and Lori Love, our Chief Financial Officer.

Before beginning, I would like to remind everyone that with the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this presentation are forward-looking statements as defined within federal securities laws. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties.

The actual results of the Company could differ materially from those statements.

Factors that can cause or contribute to such differences include but are not limited to; continued demand for the Company's products, competitive factors, regulatory developments, changes in Bitcoin difficulty rates, the Company's ability to achieve future growth, the Company's ability to produce and market new products in a timely fashion, uncertainties surrounding the pandemic, the Company's ability to continue to attract and retain skilled personnel, and the Company's ability to sustain or improve the current levels of productivity.

Forward-looking statements may include words such as anticipate, could, estimate, intend, expect, belief, potential, will, should, project, and similar expressions. Further information on the Company's risk factors is contained in the Company's quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Today, August 16th, the Company will file its Form 10-Q, which will be available on SEC.gov and the Company's website. A press release announcing our financial results will also be issued tomorrow. Participants on this call may wish to look at the press release, as the Company will include a summary of the results discussed on this call.

Finally, please note that -- on today's call, management will refer to non-GAAP financial measures in which CleanSpark excludes certain expenses from its GAAP financial results. Please refer to CleanSpark's press release for a full reconciliation of its non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures.

The press release will be available at www. cleanspark.com/investor-relations/ news-releases/. Following the prepared remarks, we will open up for a short Q&A for the analyst community. With that said, I would like to turn the call over to our CEO, Zach Bradford..

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

Rachel, thank you very much. Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining our call. As Rachel noted, I'm also joined today by Lori Love, our Chief Financial Officer. This was another great quarter of strong growth for CleanSpark, this rapid growth means CleanSpark more than doubled its comparable Year-over-year revenues.

At the conclusion of the 9 months ended June 30th, we realized, 22.3 million in revenue, representing a 176% revenue growth when compared to the 9-month period 1 year ago. For the three months ended June 30th, we realized 11.9 million in revenue, representing a 250% revenue growth when compared to the same period 3 months ago.

Our growth was not without challenges. The Company continues to navigate the volatility of Bitcoin, successfully procure for immediate and future delivery over 30,000 next-generation mining rates.

We managed our supply chain constraints, resolved a legal dispute, aggressively expanded our sales and marketing efforts, and increased our labor force per energy product while increasing our quarterly energy revenue by 61% from the prior quarter. Now, rapid growth is not free, and our efforts ultimately resulted in a loss for the quarter.

It is important to note though, that many of these expenses, but not all, were related to non-cash items or were considered one-time non-reoccurring expenses. Lori will speak to these specifics during her section of the presentation later. Achieving long-term profitability is our guiding principle as we continue our trend of rapid revenue growth.

We are now halfway through our Fourth Fiscal Quarter, and the efforts we've taken over the prior Three Quarters have placed the Company in a very strong position as we move into our next Fiscal year. We believe these efforts will translate into a bright future and increase shareholder value.

We now expect to more than double our current hash rate before the end of 2021 and more than quadruple our current hash rate in 2022. Our energy business continues to build momentum with positive regulatory tailwinds and incentives in place for Green Energy, along with our backlog of executed contracts of over $20 million.

The combined efforts of our Bitcoin mining and energy businesses are expected to contribute to record growth through the balance of 2021 and 2022. I will turn it over to Lori to review the 3rd fiscal quarter financial results. After Lori, I will cover business developments and other current developments.

Then Lori will run through our earnings expectations before a brief Q&A and closing remarks..

Lori Love

Thank you, Zach. And good afternoon, everyone. I would first like to discuss our balance sheet and operating capital as it is our assets that drive the future of our business. All the numbers I refer to in our balance sheet will be as of 06/30/2021.

All the numbers I reference in relation to our statement of operations will be for the 3- and 9-month periods ended 06/30/2021 and 06/30/2020. Our balance sheet continued to strengthen with working capital of over 36.2 million. The Company has limited liabilities with only 15.7 million in total liabilities and net assets of 281.8 million.

We have grown the net assets on our balance sheet by a factor of over 17 times since the start of this Fiscal year. We are pleased with the strength of our balance sheet and the strong foundation it has created for our growth. I also want to highlight a few specific assets that will drive our continued growth.

We had cash of 22.2 million and over 4 million in inventory. The majority of that inventory we expect to install and convert into revenue over the Fourth Quarter. We also had 62.4 million in mining equipment, the majority of which was fully installed and hashing as of June 30th.

In addition to the miners that we had on hand, we also fully paid deposits of 125.8 million for mining equipment scheduled to be delivered after June 30th. The mining equipment order will drive a substantial amount of revenue over the -- for the Company over the coming years.

A significant portion of the equipment arrived and was installed in August, which will increase our revenues in the current quarter. I will now turn to the results of our operations and related growth; I will first discuss our revenues.

For the quarter ended, our total revenue is derived from three reportable lines of revenue, which I will discuss individually.

These reportable lines of revenues are Digital Currency Mining, energy projects and services, and other revenue activities, which include all other revenue-generating activities that fall outside of our two core lines of business. For further details on all our lines of revenues, I encourage you to review our 10-Q.

Our Digital Currency mining activities produced 16.1 million in revenue, which made up 72% of our total revenue for the 9-month period. For the 3-month period, these activities produced 8.6 million in revenue or 73% of our total revenues. Our Digital Currency mining revenues increased by 1.9 million or 22% from the previous quarter ended March 31st.

This quarter-over-quarter increase was driven by the deployment of additional miners, and because of these efforts, increased, Bitcoin mine -- Bitcoin received. We expect rapid growth in this segment.

There are no comparable revenues for the previous three and nine periods -- nine-month periods ending June or June 30th, 2020 due to this being a new line of business this year. Overall, we are pleased with these results and our growth in this sector.

The growth from last quarter, although significant, represents only a fraction of the growth in our future, and we're very excited about what the future holds. At the end of the quarter, we were required to measure our Bitcoin assets for impairment, which I will discuss shortly.

But it should be noted that the price has since recovered and now exceeds the average value of the Bitcoin we held at quarter-end, against which that impairment was measured. I also want to mention that we continued with our strategy of holding Bitcoin. We only sold 1.25 Bitcoin last quarter at prices above 60,000.

Our energy business activities produced 5 million year-to-date revenues, which made up 22% of our total revenue. For the three-month period, these activities produced 2.9 million in revenue, or 22 -- 24% of our revenue. Our energy revenues increased by 1.8 million or 61% from the previous quarter ended March 31st.

This quarter-over-quarter growth came primarily from revenues associated with the residential energy business. We have also experienced strong growth in our OpenADR software solutions, which aid in load management and grid services. The electric vehicle sector is leading this growth as we now have 15 customers.

Due to our strong backlog of executed contracts and inventory improvements, we expect our total energy revenues to increase significantly over the next 12 months. I will now briefly cover our other revenues. Our other business activities produced 400,000 and 1.2 million for the three-month -- three and nine months ended.

Overall, we don't expect our other business activities to play a significant role in our revenue growth for the Company. Holistically, the Company achieved 22.3 million in consolidated revenue for the 9 months ended June, 30th. For the comparative year-over-year 3- and 9-month period, we saw revenue growth of 250% and 176% respectively.

It is also worth mentioning that our nine-month revenue was more than double the 10 million in revenues we reported for our entire fiscal year ended 09/30/2020. Doubling annual revenues in 9 months is a noteworthy achievement.

We expect that our trend of significant growth will continue as CleanSpark deploys and expands its mining capabilities and delivers on its contracted backlog in the energy segment. I will now discuss our costs and expenses. Our direct cost of revenues, excluding depreciation and amortization was 6.7 million.

Our cost of revenues and associated margins continue to improve as we focus our efforts on high-margin revenue streams. The results of such efforts are evident with only a $119,000 increase in the cost of revenues while increasing revenue by more than 2.5 times for the 9 months ended compared to the same period.

For the 3 months ended, our cost of revenues was 3.8 million compared to 2.8 million for the prior year, representing a $1 million increase in cost with the corresponding revenue increase of nearly 3.5 times. We experienced an increase in professional fees of 3 million for the nine months. ended compared to 2020.

For the 3 months ended, our legal fees increased by approximately 1.3 million compared to 2020. The increase in the 3- and 9-month periods is mostly attributable to legal fees. In June, we resolved the case related to much of these fees. So, we expect these costs to dramatically improve in the coming quarter.

Our payroll expenses increased by 15.7 million for the 9 months ended compared to 2020 and increased by 10.8 million for the 3 months ended compared to 2020. This is largely due to costs for employee bonuses and stock-based compensations that are largely considered non-reoccurring events.

In addition, the Company continues to add talent to support our tremendous growth. Our employee headcount now stands at 74, expanding all entities. CleanSpark, like all companies holding substantial amounts of digital currency, is required to measure impairment to the value of Bitcoin pursuant to U.S. accounting rules.

As a result of the decreased value of Bitcoin at the end of the quarter, we incurred losses on the impairment of Bitcoin of 3.7 million. As I previously stated, Bitcoin price has increased significantly since the end of last quarter.

Additionally, for the nine months ended, the organization reported a 6.8 million in other income, primarily driven by the unrealized gains on securities of 5.3 million. Also included in this figure are gains on sales of Bitcoin of 672,000.

For the three months ended, our other expenses were 2 million with a bulk of that made up of unrealized losses on securities of 2.2 million. These unrealized losses do not represent actual sales of investments, rather, they represent market price fluctuations that are measured at the conclusion of each reporting period.

Overall, CleanSpark reported a net loss of 16.4 million for the 9 months ended, compared to 16.3 million for the 9 months ended 2020. The company reported a net loss of 16.7 million for the 3 months ended, compared to 8.6 million for the same period ending 2020.

For the quarter ended 2021, we reported a loss per basic share of $0.60 from a loss per share of $2.32. This represents an improvement of $1.72 per share. For further context on my commentary today on our reported numbers, please refer to our Form-10-Q. I will now turn it back over to Zach..

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

Thank you, Lori. I first want to comment on the growth of our Bitcoin mining segment. We experienced the strongest growth in this segment. This growth is guided by our ESG principles as we strive towards our goal of reaching 100% net carbon neutrality. As we bring additional power online, our energy mix will periodically change between facilities.

As of now, the current energy mix we use for Bitcoin mining across all facilities is approximately 90% carbon-free. In addition to adding on-site renewables, we plan to begin purchasing additional renewable energy credits next quarter to offset 100% of the carbon-based power sources utilized by the Company.

We believe that blockchain technologies are important for the future of our society and we are proud to support these technologies and the system of trust we believe they facilitate. We have continued to achieve strong results and we are bullish about our Bitcoin mining future.

We increased our production capacity substantially throughout the quarter, resulting in 191 Bitcoin, an increase of 47 over the prior period of 32.2%. Bitcoin prices continue to be volatile with year-to-date highs exceeding 64,000 and lows approaching 28,000. Daily prices impact our reported revenues.

As the revenue value for any day is based on the daily Bitcoin price on the day that the Bitcoin is received. Although we saw prices decrease near the end of June, the average revenue we recognized per Bitcoin mined during the quarter increased to 45,341, or a 2.6% increase over the prior quarter. We monitor volatility closely.

And although we may choose to sell Bitcoin from time to time based on market conditions, we currently plan to continue holding Bitcoin. We believe that haggling (sic) Bitcoin will result in long-term value appreciation. When this presentation was prepared, Bitcoin was 47,000 per coin. All USD amounts I referred to will be based on this price.

As of the 14th of August, we held 525 Bitcoin with a fair value of approximately $24.7 million. Our current hash trick capacity now exceeds 820 PH/s as of today, which is nearly double our capacity just 46 days ago.

We anticipate achieving one EH/s in production capacity within the coming month when the balance of our mining rigs scheduled to be hashing in August is installed. That's one Quilly -- one Quintillion hashes per second. To put this in perspective, we produced just over 3 Bitcoins on June 30th.

We are now capable of producing between 6 and 7 Bitcoins per day. At current difficulty rates, one EH/s would result in 89 Bitcoin per day, which would result in 376,000 to 424,000 in revenue per day, or 137 million to 154 million in annualized revenue.

We have over 22,000 of the latest-generation Bitmain S19 and S19 Pro mining rigs scheduled to arrive and be installed over the next 12 to 14 months. And we expect to place additional orders in the near future to continue growing our mining fleet beyond what we have currently ordered.

As a result of these pre-orders, our hash rate is expected to increase as shown on the following slide. For perspective, at current difficulty rates.

If we had the 3.4 hex hashes of capacity in place today it would result in 26 to 28 Bitcoins per day, which in turn would result in 1.2 to 1.3 million per day, or 446 to 480 million in annualized revenue.

We continue to work on expanding the Company's total energy capacity to accelerate the growth of our Bitcoin mining operations in Atlanta this fall. The expansion will bring the site's total capacity to 50 megawatts. In addition to this expansion, our partnership with Coinmint has allowed us to continue our growth while construction is ongoing.

All the new mining rigs received this summer, were promptly deployed with Coinmint. This partnership has increased the total available power for mining by approximately 25 megawatts. We are also excited about our recently announced purchase of an additional data center. The data center's locator on our over 7 acres in Norcross, Georgia.

It will provide 20 megawatts of additional power for CleanSpark 's mining business with the opportunity for additional mining power expansion in the future. The company expects to complete the installation of the mining infrastructure and miners later this year.

We expect this facility will hold over 6,000 S-19s capable of producing over 650 PH/s upon installation. The new facility's mining operations are expected to operate at a 100% net carbon-neutral. This will be achieved through our partnership in Georgia's simple solar program.

The program will allow CleanSpark, to offset any carbon-based energy included in the regional energy mix with solar power. The Company also anticipates adding on-site solar, energy storage, and other renewables, which will be managed by the Company's mPulse controls platform.

We are following through on our commitment to mine with the lowest carbon footprint possible. This new facility along with our other initiatives is expected to help us achieve our goal of 2 exahashes this year. We intend to continue to prove that Bitcoin mining can be done sustainably, responsibly, and at a substantial profit.

We also have plans to unveil additional details surrounding our complete ESG strategy later this year. Now on to our energy segment. We continue to see strong growth friends in the energy business. We executed over 6 million in additional energy-related contracts last quarter and increased our quarter-over-quarter revenues by 61%.

This strong sales growth has resulted in a very robust backlog that we expect to lead to positive revenue growth over the next several quarters. With that backlog comes additional operational and logistical challenges.

Although we are seeing strong sales growth, as we discussed during our last earnings call, the energy industry as a whole is still encountering certain global supply chain constraints. Battery supply was a key factor for us to navigate this past quarter.

Fortunately, we believe we have significantly shored up our supply chain, and a large number of batteries were received into inventory in June and July. We're also seeing positive improvements to the overall global supply chain and expect continued normalization through the balance of 2021.

We didn't see the full benefits of increased inventory until near the end of last quarter. Accordingly, we expect to realize those benefits as we close out this fiscal year and further strengthening our position for the next. The Company's strong balance sheet and access to capital supported our ability to secure this much-needed inventory.

Our growing sales and strong contracted backlog are now turning -- are -- are allowing us to now turn our attention to refine our operations and increase our installation and implementation capabilities. The refinement of these activities is critical for moving the energy segment into profitability in the coming quarters.

With inventory secured, we can now increase the number of projects completed each quarter. We have more work to do to reach our long-term goals. But we are very encouraged by the results we are already seeing. We've increased the headcount of our project implementation team and continue to recruit to fill additional positions. For perspective.

these improvements led to the completion of over 3 times the number of residential battery installations during the month of July compared to the entire prior quarter. We expect the rate of deployments for all our energy products to continue to increase through the current quarter and into next year.

Our strongest growth in the residential sector, which accounted for approximately 54% of the total energy business revenues last quarter. We expect our residential energy revenues to continue to grow and eventually exceed 70% of the total energy revenues over the next several quarters as we roll out our new solutions. With that.

I'm excited to announce our mVoult product line is now available in California and the associated application can be found in both the Apple and Android App Stores.

The envelope product line is built on the backbone of our impulse controls platform and empowers a homeowner to integrate a microgrid at their home and deal with performance through our application-based user interface. The system operates autonomously without any required input from the homeowner.

A homeowner is also provided certain controls to manage aspects of their system, such as increasing the reserve level on their batteries, to prepare for fire averages, or other events. This is part of our commitment to helping people solve modern energy and environmental challenges.

Lastly, although we experienced our share of challenges, it was an excellent quarter with strong revenue growth. We believe that our combined Bitcoin and energy strategy will result in profitability as we focus on rapidly scaling both businesses. We expect the next 6 months to be a transformational period for the Company.

Now let me turn it over to Lori to run through our outlook for the balance of 2021..

Lori Love

Thank you, Zach. I now want to speak to our financial outlook and expectations. As a result of industry trends, volatility, and Bitcoin, and other market impacts and constraints, we are updating our revenue expectations for the 2021 fiscal year.

We now expect to achieve between 38 and 48 million in Bitcoin mining revenues this year, which is an increase in expectations of approximately 8,000,000 overall, since our most recent guidance. We are installing projects under our energy business as quickly as possible.

But we believe it is prudent to reduce our overall revenue expectations for our energy business to between $9 million and $12 million in fiscal 2021. We're taking steps to increase this further, but we conservatively estimate that a portion of our backlog will not be installed until the first quarter of our next fiscal year.

We also expect our other revenues to contribute 2 million in fiscal 2021. As a result, we expect to achieve between 49 and 62 million in combined revenues in Fiscal 2021. This is a net increase in baseline revenue expectations of approximately 3 million.

We intend to remain as conservative in our projections as possible, while still providing quality data points to our shareholders. As noted earlier, there are certain risks -- risks surrounding our projections. I will mention a few, but investors should also review our risk disclosures in our filings.

Bitcoin is extremely volatile and as a result, it is difficult to forecast future performance. These future forecasts are currently based on an average Bitcoin price of 47,000 and fluctuations from that point will affect the final numbers actually recognized by the Company.

We have included the potential for limited shipment delays in mining equipment in our forecast. If such delays occur and are longer than anticipated, it could negatively affect our forecast.

We also intend to continue with the strategy of holding the Bitcoin we mine as we believe Bitcoin will continue to increase in value over time, resulting in increased value to our shareholders. We expect to see demand from residential, commercial, and industrial clients continue to increase as the U.S.

continues the process of normalizing business activities post-pandemic. Our backlog for non-bitcoin segments remains strong at approximately 24.2 million as of the date of this call. We believe our contracted backlog demonstrates the pent-up demand for resilient distributed energy solutions as the pandemic begins to improve.

As stated in our last earnings call, we continue to expect our fiscal quarter ended December 2021 to be the strongest quarter our Company has ever experienced. Let me conclude by reiterating Zach's confidence in our long-term business outlook.

We continue to expect to generate strong revenue growth through the end of 2021, and we believe that the next 6 months will be transformational. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Rachel, who will be moderating the Q&A. Rachel..

Q - Rachel Silverstein

Thank you, Lori. We received several questions from the analyst community that we will address prior to closing. Our first question is from Amit Dayal, an analyst from H.C. Wainwright.

Does he ask what are our expectations for mining difficulty over the next 12 months?.

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

I'll go ahead and take that one. That one is a great question. Overall, the global hash rate has trended lower over the last few months as Chinese miners have unplugged with some of the changes that happen over there. This has resulted in a difficulty rate, now it's about 15 trillion.

Which is down from approximately 20 million from earlier this year, around May. This means that miners like Clean Spark are earning more Bitcoin every day. The ability to secure power and infrastructure will make it difficult for many of these miners who moved offline, to get back online quickly.

Further, many analysts have estimated only half of the rigs that came offline in China are the newer generation like the S19s that we use. Further estimates indicate that 20 to 30% of that were actually all -- S9s or older.

To put that in perspective, those S9s are really not efficient to put back online, and as a result, we don't expect it to actually see those come back online, which will provide a long-term permanent decrease for what they would have accounted for.

Overall, it places Clean Spark, in an advantageous position where we are getting more Bitcoin every day as a result. So, it's hard to estimate exactly where the difficulty will be, but we do expect it to increase over time as we and other U.S. miners grow. And some of the hash rates that exited China does come back online.

I expect to see that come up 20% or 30% by the end of the year. But it's really hard to tell. The good thing is we expect our rate of growth to far outpacing the overall changes in -- that increase in difficulty. So, it's not an exact answer, but we are paying attention to it and we do remain focused on outpacing it..

Rachel Silverstein

Thank you, Zach, Mr.

Greg's second question is, when will the newly acquired data center begin to contribute?.

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

I'll go ahead and jump in on that one also. It is going to come online near the end of this year. So, I would expect probably around December, something that's important to note with that is we do have plenty of energy that will be available both at our Atlantic facilities and also with our coin mid partnership.

So even into December, for the equipment we're receiving, we should have plenty of room. Now, what we will be doing it, as we prepare that facility to receive miners, if it does come online before December, we would look to evaluate the opportunity to buy miners, to put them into use quicker than what we already have on order.

So -- but we're going to play that day by day because currently, we have plenty of power for the miners we're going to receive over the next 5 to 6 months..

Rachel Silverstein

Our next analyst question is from Greg Lewis, from BTIG.

What is the Company's appetite to continue to add new equipment? Any color around current pricing for rigs and what would be the earliest delivery date for new equipment ordered today?.

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

Great question. I indicated that we -- we definitely do have an appetite to grow beyond what we already have. And -- and we won't get into the specifics until we actually make a formal announcement around in the future, but we -- we absolutely expect to grow. We are seeing really good pricing around the rigs right now.

Currently, some of that pricing is because there are new rigs that were ordered for Chinese miners that have to be redirected, and it's creating some good price opportunities. Again, we're -- we're taking this day-by-day, but we have recently looked to increase that.

If we were to make orders, we are seeing actually because of the rerouting of Chinese miners that we can get additional miners. Right now, from a price-value point of view, I would say that the miners arriving in October and November are still at a good level.

Beyond that, we do have opportunities to purchase directly from the manufacturer for any time between January of 2022 and July of '22. It's really going to be based upon some evaluations we're making in the coming weeks about our total power capacity and how quickly we bring that new data center online as I mentioned before..

Rachel Silverstein

Our next analyst question is from Shawn at Water Tower Research.

He asks are tracking the mined coins for green energy electricity, and what percentage of coins mined are from clean power sources?.

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

That's a great question and it's something that can often bring a lot of commentary in the Bitcoin community. So, we see Bitcoin as a Bitcoin, but we do internally have some tracking mechanisms for what we look at as being mined carbon-free. And to date, it's been about 95% carbon-free.

We recently did bring a little bit more power online that as I mentioned before, brings us closer to the 90% level, but within the next month or so we're going to be buying renewable energy credits to offset any new carbon producing energy.

So again, our goal is to get to a 100%, but historically, from last December to the current, what we have mined is between 90% and 95% mined carbon-free..

Rachel Silverstein

Great.

Sean's second question is are you actively looking for additional mining sites, and what do the energy profile look like at these facilities?.

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

An excellent question. The answer is yes. We are absolutely looking for some additional sites. And what they look like from a profile currently for us, -- is we are currently trying to identify a greenfield site that would exceed 100 megawatts or more.

And that, of course, takes time and negotiation because these are real sites with their own complexities. But what we are paying very close attention to is the energy profile. We want the energy profile to be as green as possible. So optimally these are located, directly connected to, or nearby sources such as solar hydroelectricity or wind.

And to the extent that they do have carbon-producing energy sources. We try and make sure that we have a renewable energy credits program either directly connected to it or access to additional renewable energy credits at affordable prices so that the overall pricing works out.

Because at the end of the day, the price of power is what ends up mattering in our ability to obtain profitability. And we have a really large focus on maintaining that as low as possible.

But we really do view it as -- we really do view it as is, we -- we think from a long-term perspective, especially with the change in -- in the Chinese difference in power and how it's going to impact difficulty, we think below $0.05 is a critical market, and we're really looking at sites trying to keep that as close to $0.03 as possible.

That's -- that's generally what we're looking at, but yes, we absolutely are looking for -- for a new site to call home base and grow to -- to an even large degree than what we already have..

Rachel Silverstein

That concludes our analyst s questions. Zack, I'll turn it over to you for closing remarks..

Zach Bradford Chief Executive Officer, President & Director

Perfect, thank you, Rachel. To close, I just want to reiterate our focus on profitability and growth. We are working to transform both the energy and bitcoin industries by developing and implementing best-in-class solutions. The microgrid and distributed energy industries continue to develop.

We expect there will be significant industry-wide growth as the world adjust to a pandemic and the realities of the changing climate. Quality market participants and trusted companies like Clean Spark are positioned to lead this wave of growth.

I also want to emphasize our belief that the long-term winners in the industry will be the high quality and respective leaders like Clean Spark. All of us at Clean Spark, pride ourselves and our ability to solve modern energy challenges.

We have a recognized and respected brand, we have a cutting-edge product line, we have a highly profitable Bitcoin mining business with a goal of reaching 100% carbon neutral mining. We're committed to our ESG strategy of responsible profits and cryptocurrency mining.

And we are confident in our long-term growth strategy as we maintain our focus on building the business to take advantage of opportunities while being good corporate citizens. Clean Spark is positioned well for the future.

Lastly, we're deeply grateful for the continued [Indiscernible] of our shareholders and other stakeholders, most importantly, the shareholders who have entrusted Clean Spark with their investment dollars. On behalf of our entire organization, thank you again for joining us, and have a great day..

Rachel Silverstein

Before we end today's Earnings Call, I would like to remind everyone that this call will be available for replay later today. Please refer to today's press release or rather tomorrow's press release for dialing and replay instructions available via the Company's website at www.cleanspark.com/Investor-Relations. Thank you for joining us today.

This concludes our earnings call and you may now disconnect..

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