Shares of Hut 8 Mining Corp.
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rallied 4.2% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the bitcoin miner said it generated 277 bitcoin
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in September, at an average rate of 9.2 bitcoin per day. That brings the company’s total bitcoin held in reserve to 8,388, which at current prices would be valued at about $167.6 million. “We continue to add to our Bitcoin on balance sheet, which is the largest unencumbered, self-mined stack of any publicly-traded mining company,” said Chief Executive Jaime Leverton. The stock has run up 38.4% over the past three months, while bitcoin has gaied 2.9% and the S&P 500
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has lost 3.8%.
