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HIVE Digital Technologies Achieves 290% Year-Over-Year Hashrate Growth, Strengthening Its Position as a Global Leader in Green-Powered Digital Infrastructure
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[{"type":"text","content":"HIVE Digital Technologies Achieves 290% Year-Over-Year Hashrate Growth, Strengthening Its Position as a Global Leader in Green-Powered Digital InfrastructureThis news release constitutes a \"designated news release\" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated November 25, 2025 to its short form base shelf prospectus dated October 31, 2025.San Antonio, Texas--(Newsfile Corp. - February 5, 2026) - HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: HIVE) (NASDAQ: HIVE) (FSE: YO0) (BVC: HIVECO) (the \"Company\" or \"HIVE\"), a diversified global leader in renewable-powered blockchain and AI infrastructure, today announced exceptional Bitcoin production results for January 2026, highlighted by 290% year-over-year hashrate growth, highly competitive fleet efficiency, and consistent performance across its Tier-1 and Tier-3 data centers worldwide (all amounts in US dollars, unless otherwise indicated).Built for Scale and ResilienceSince its founding in 2017, HIVE has built one of the most geographically diversified digital infrastructure platforms in the public Bitcoin mining sector. Operating across nine time zones, three continents, and five languages, the Company's teams in Canada, Sweden, and Paraguay coordinate around the clock to optimize uptime, energy efficiency, and production.This distributed operating model enabled HIVE to maintain steady performance through January's severe northern hemisphere cold fronts, while portions of the global mining network experienced curtailments. The Company continues to demonstrate consistent execution across 4-year Bitcoin halving cycles, bear markets, unwinding of Japanese carry trade that ignites selling in global capital markets, extreme cold weather events, and energy volatility.With HIVE's geographically decentralized operating model—spanning the northern and southern hemisphere—Company is pleased to note the high uptime, operational resilience, and production consistency in Paraguay, the flagship southern hemisphere operations for HIVE.January 2026 Production HighlightsBitcoin Produced: 297 BTC+191% year-over-year (102 BTC in January 2025), while Bitcoin mining difficulty increased 30% year-over-year for the month of JanuaryAverage Daily Production: 9.6 BTC/dayHashrate: Averaged 22.2 Exahash per Second (\"EH/s\"), peaking at 23.7 EH/s+290% year-over-year (5.7 EH/s in J...