Hut 8 Corp HUT

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Hut 8 Corp. is a data mining company. The Company is a vertically integrated operator of large-scale energy infrastructure and bitcoin miner. The Company acquires, designs, builds, manages, and operates data centers that power compute-intensive workloads, such as bitcoin mining, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Company operates through four business segments: Digital Assets Mining, Managed Services, High Performance Computing-Colocation and Cloud, and Other. Its infrastructure portfolio includes about eighteen sites: nine Bitcoin mining, hosting, and Managed Services sites in Alberta, New York, Nebraska, and Texas, five high performance computing data centers in British Columbia and Ontario, and four power generation assets in Ontario. Its Managed Services business provides institutional partners such as digital asset mining site owners, governments, and data center developers an end-to-end partnership model for energy infrastructure development.

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Comment by Joe455on Aug 30, 2021 12:45pm

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RE:Billionaire John Paulson Calls Crypto ‘Worthless’ Bubble

Parker5295 wrote: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-30/is-bitcoin-a-good-investment-billionaire-paulson-says-crypto-worthless-bubble

What about cryptocurrencies? Are you a believer?

No, I’m not. And I would say that cryptocurrencies are a bubble. I would describe them as a limited supply of nothing. So to the extent there’s more demand than the limited supply, the price would go up. But to the extent the demand falls, then the price would go down. There’s no intrinsic value to any of the cryptocurrencies except that there’s a limited amount.

Cryptocurrencies, regardless of where they’re trading today, will eventually prove to be worthless. Once the exuberance wears off, or liquidity dries up, they will go to zero. I wouldn’t recommend anyone invest in cryptocurrencies.

Based on what you’ve just said, why not put a big short of some type on cryptocurrencies?

The reason we shorted subprime in size was because it was asymmetrical — shorting a bond at par that has a limited duration that trades at a 1% spread of Treasuries. So you can’t lose more than the spread in the duration. In crypto, there’s unlimited downside. So even though I could be right over the long term, in the short term, I’d be wiped out. In the case of Bitcoin, it went from $5,000 to $45,000. It’s just too volatile to short.