{"id":88012,"date":"2023-12-08T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88012"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:24:25","slug":"phoenix-group-seals-380m-deal-with-microbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/phoenix-group-seals-380m-deal-with-microbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Group seals $380m deal with MicroBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company Phoenix Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2023\/12\/07\/2792403\/0\/en\/Phoenix-Group-and-Whatsminer-Seal-380M-Deal-for-Sustainable-Hydro-Powered-Mining-Innovation.html\">announced<\/a> that it had signed a $380 million contract with the bitcoin-mining device maker under the Whatsminer brand \u2014 MicroBT.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the agreement, the Abu Dhabi-based company will initially purchase hydro-cooled miners worth $136 million. An additional option provides for equipment worth $246 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the deal is MicroBT&#8217;s largest order in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix embarked on this step after a successful stock market listing via IPO. In November, the company reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/abu-dhabi-based-mining-firm-phoenix-group-raises-370-million-in-ipo\">33-fold oversubscription<\/a> on the securities at the close of books. On the first trading day, December 5, trading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adx.ae\/English\/Pages\/ProductsAndServices\/Securities\/SelectCompany\/default.aspx?listedcompanyid=AEE01357P238&#038;pnavTitle=PHOENIX%20GROUP%20%20%20%20%20PLC\">opened<\/a> at 2.25 <span data-descr=\"dirhams\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AED<\/span> with an issue price of 1.5 AED. The price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adx.ae\/English\/Pages\/ProductsAndServices\/Securities\/SelectCompany\/default.aspx?listedcompanyid=AEE01357P238&#038;pnavTitle=PHOENIX%20GROUP%20%20%20%20%20PLC\">reaches<\/a> 2.5 AED at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE-based firm is already a partner of MicroBT and the exclusive regional distributor of Whatsminer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This collaboration marks an important milestone for Phoenix Group, reflecting our strategic foresight and commitment to innovation in the technology sector. The successful listing on the <span data-descr=\"Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ADX<\/span> has given us even more opportunities to develop such important partnerships, broadening our prospects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space,&#8221; said the co-founder and CEO Bijan Alizadeh-Fard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, in 2021 Phoenix <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dubai-based-firm-orders-650-million-worth-of-crypto-mining-hardware\">stated<\/a> it had placed an order for mining equipment from Bitmain worth $650 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company Phoenix Group announced a $380 million contract with the bitcoin-mining device maker under the Whatsminer brand \u2014 MicroBT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1646,1137,1728],"class_list":["post-88012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-microbt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88014,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88012\/revisions\/88014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}