Argo Blockchain purchases 20K miners from Bitmain to build a future mining center in Texas

Argo Blockchain, a London-based cryptocurrency mining firm, announced that it will increase its mining capacity by more than doubling its current hashrate. The acquisition of 20,000 S19JPro bitcoin miners from Bitmain will allow for the expansion. These will be delivered in multiple installments. The miners will be used to populate the Texas facility that the company plans on building next year.

Argo Blockchain Expands Hashrate with New Purchase

Argo Blockchain, a crypto mining company based in London, has made public its intention to purchase 20,000 mining machines to increase its mining capacity. This purchase is part of the company’s planned expansion to West Texas where it will construct a mega-mining plant. Bitmain, a Chinese manufacturer of mining machines, will supply the machines in successive installments.

This purchase agreement will allow Argo to more than double its current mining capacity, taking it to 3.7 exahash for Q3 2022, betting big on the future of Bitcoin as a network and a profitable asset. While the amount of the initial deposit for the purchase was not revealed, the company stated that it is being funded with cash reserves.

Argo Blockchain has been quick in expanding its mining capacity. In February, it was estimated that the company had 787 petahash. Now the company estimates this number to have risen to 1.7 exahash in less than a year.

Texas, a New Miner Mecca?

It is not strange that Argo picked Texas as the new destination for its upcoming mega-mining center. Texas has been in the sights of miners this year as a destination to settle after the Chinese government declared a cryptocurrency mining ban in several key provinces earlier this year. The key trait that Texas presents to miners is its relatively cheap power tariffs, due to the configuration of its power market.

Texas has a deregulated power industry with lots of players in the game, which allows for more competition, and miners plan to take advantage of this in the future. In fact, Argo is just one of the mining companies that have revealed plans to build mining facilities in Texas. In April, mining firm Blockcap announced it was relocating its headquarters to Texas in the midst of a $75 million ASIC purchase.

Riot Blockchain, another big cryptocurrency mining firm, bought Whinstone, an in-progress bitcoin mining center also in Texas, for $650 million.