Rhodium Enterprises, Inc.
We are an industrial-scale digital asset technology company utilizing our proprietary technologies to mine bitcoin. Our strategy is to create innovative technologies to be the most sustainable and cost-efficient producer of bitcoin in the industry. We believe we can achieve this through our fully integrated infrastructure platform, access to low-cost power and directly owning and operating a majority of the components of our own customized mining sites. Our fully integrated infrastructure platform includes our flagship liquid-cooling system, efficiency optimization software and end-to-end management software. Our uniquely designed infrastructure affords us the ability to maintain low operating costs and manage energy consumption, which provides significant advantages in driving profitability across a variety of bitcoin market conditions. We strive to continuously develop and implement technological improvement into the bitcoin mining process. The cornerstone of our infrastructure platform is our proprietary liquid-cooling technology. Our founders spent the previous four years developing, testing and collecting field operational data to optimize the application of our liquid-cooling technology to mining bitcoin. We believe we are one of the largest liquid-cooled bitcoin mining sites in the world, with 100 megawatts (“MW”) of liquid-cooled miners online as of December 31, 2021. We believe we have a competitive advantage through our design, build, operations and maintenance of industrial scale liquid-cooled bitcoin mining infrastructure. Our liquid-cooling technology has many advantages over traditional air-cooled systems. Our technology allows us to submerge our bitcoin miners in cooling fluid, allowing us to optimize the hash rate, or processing power, of our miners relative to air-cooled systems, which allows us to predictably and consistently mine more bitcoin with fewer miners. Our liquid-cooling technology protects our equipment from high temperatures, humidity, dust and vibration, all of which can lead to equipment damage and failure. We believe that our liquid-cooling technology extends the mechanical useful life of our miners by 30% to 50% relative to manufacturer specifications based on internal testing. Additionally, we have developed and maintained proprietary software to optimize performance of our miners and infrastructure in real-time and provide critical security controls to our mining operations. We believe our software provides the proper control and flexibility to optimize the performance of our people, processes and technology. Specifically, our software allows us to make quicker, and data-informed, decisions, securely and rapidly put miners online and more effectively manage temperature and energy. Our infrastructure platform provides an integrated, connected system for bitcoin mining operations. As of December 31, 2021, we owned and operated an infrastructure platform supported by approximately 125 MW of power capacity with the capability to power more than 33,600 miners at what we call our “initial Texas site,” with a total combined hash rate capacity of approximately 2.7 EH/s. We have procured low-cost power for our sites through long-term, fixed-cost energy contracts for an aggregate of 310 MW, with an additional 40 MW under a letter of intent. Additionally, we have entered into colocation agreements with our power provider at our initial Texas site whereby we agree to pay them a percentage of after-tax cash profit, which we refer to as “Colocation Payments.” On August 31, 2021, we entered into a lease agreement and an energy supply agreement for a second Texas site (our “second Texas site” and, together with our initial Texas site, our “sites”) where we expect to develop 225 MW of additional capacity. Under these agreements, we have agreed to pay a percentage of profits to our electricity provider in addition to the fixed costs. We expect to have our first miners online at our second Texas site in April 2022 and for such site to be completed by the end of 2022. We have already secured approximately 225 MW of miners at our second Texas site that are scheduled for delivery beginning in April 2022. Our second Texas site will utilize our infrastructure platform, including our proprietary liquid-cooling systems. Our infrastructure platform allows us to mine bitcoin at a significantly lower cost compared to the industry average. For the period from January 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021, our average electricity cost to produce one bitcoin was approximately $2,507. We are strategically locating our sites in Texas due to its independent power market and abundance of low-cost renewable energy resources. We believe our liquid-cooling technology provides us better access to Texas’s low-cost renewable energy because it allows us to operate more efficiently in the warmer region of the state, where significant renewable energy resources are located. Curtailment of power generation from renewable energy sources may occur in order to balance energy supply and demand or due to transmission constraints, which may limit the benefit of low-cost renewable energy. Our mining operations provide a consistent and flexible demand for such power. Additionally, through our contractual relationship with our power suppliers, during periods of high energy prices and demand volatility, we have the ability to curtail and adjust the power demand of our sites, creating flexibility in our revenue sources and providing grid stability for the region. We generate substantially all of our revenue from bitcoin mining. As we produce bitcoin through our mining operations, we will from time to time exchange our bitcoin for fiat currency to fund our operations on an as-needed basis, based on a variety of market and operational conditions. Our intent is to hold bitcoin for investment purposes until such time that fiat currency is needed to fund operations. We intend to hold enough fiat currency to cover our projected near-term fiat currency needs, including liabilities and anticipated expenses and capital expenditures over the course of six to 18 months. In identifying our fiat currency needs, we assess market conditions and review our financial forecast on a daily basis. Although our core business is mining bitcoin, we believe that bitcoin represents an attractive, appreciating investment opportunity, and as a result, from time to time as market opportunities present, we have purchased and intend to continue to purchase bitcoin. We safeguard and keep private our digital assets by utilizing offline storage solutions, which require multi-factor authentication and third-party custody solutions. While we are confident in the security of our digital assets, we continue to evaluate additional protective measures. We consider ourselves a remote-first company, meaning that for the vast majority of roles, our employees have the option to work remotely. Due to this, we do not currently have a principal executive office.