Coal mining companies mine Bitcoin! ARLP: 425 BTC mined with excess electricity

Nasdaq-listed coal miner Alliance Resource Partners said on an earnings call last week that it had mined $3,000 worth of Bitcoin using its excess power resources.

Cary Marshall, chief financial officer of Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), a traditional coal mining company founded in 1971 and headquartered in Oklahoma and listed on Nasdaq, said on its earnings call last week that the company has used its excess resources. Power Resources, $30M worth of Bitcoin mined: In the second half of 2020, we began Bitcoin mining as a pilot project to monetize already paid for but underutilized power at our River View mine.

ARLP already holds 425 BTC

Cary Marshall said that as of the end of the Q1 quarter, Alliance Resource Partners already had 425 Bitcoins on its balance sheet. After excluding mining costs such as factories and equipment, their net income from Bitcoin mining reached US$7.3 million.

However, Cary Marshall also stated that the company will not purchase any Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but only plans to use its equipment to continue mining Bitcoin: We do have some additional power, and we are leasing these resources to others in the data center. of Bitcoin miners, and we have effectively built the infrastructure for Bitcoin mining to take advantage of our low-cost energy.

ARLP stock price rises more than 10%

Perhaps affected by this, ARLP's stock price rose by more than 10% yesterday after the release of the financial report. At the time of writing, it has retreated to US$22.43, with an increase of approximately 6.25% in the past five days.

Maybe in the future we will see more and more companies investing their idle resources into Bitcoin mining.