HIVE Blockchain Technologies (HIVE) Issues June 2023 Production Update

This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated May 10, 2023, to its short form base shelf prospectus dated May 1, 2023.

HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: HIVE) (FSE: HBFA) (the "Company" or "HIVE") is pleased to announce the unaudited production figures from the Company's global Bitcoin operations for the month of June 2023, with 259 Bitcoin produced in June, and a current BTC HODL balance of approximately 1,957 (As of July 1^st). The Company has maintained over 3.3 Exahash ("EH/s") of Bitcoin mining capacity on average for June 2023, including ASIC and GPU BTC hashrate (all amounts in US dollars, unless otherwise indicated).

Summary Overview:

• HIVE produced 259 Bitcoin in the month of June, from ASIC and GPU mining operations, representing an average of 76.6 Bitcoin Per Exahash, with an average hashrate of 3.38 EH/s for the month of June 2023;
• HIVE produced an average of 8.6 BTC per day in June 2023;
• HIVE ended the month with 3.48 EH/s of mining capacity, including ASIC and GPU BTC hashrate.

June 2023 Production Figures

Aydin Kilic, President & CEO of HIVE noted, "Since our June month end, our ASIC hashrate reached 3.4 EH/s in the first week of July, and is expected to continue to grow this month, as the majority of our 1.26 EH/s of ASICs which were previously announced, have been shipped, and we are continuing to install them in our data centers upon delivery. We expect to provide updates on our growing hashrate capacity as we work towards our interim goal of 4 EH/s, and moreover, we are actively evaluating opportunities in the market for our year end goal of 6 EH/s."

The Company's total Bitcoin production in June 2023 was:

• 246 BTC produced from ASICs from an average hashrate of 3.2 EH/s from ASICs in June;
• 8.2 BTC produced per day on average from ASICs, and 76.6 BTC/EH from ASICs in June;
• 3.48 EH/s of BTC month end Hashrate as of June 30, comprised of 3.316 EH/s of ASIC BTC hashrate and 0.166 EH/s of GPU BTC Hashrate;
• Monthly average of 3.38 EH/s, comprised of an average of 3.212 EH/s of ASIC mining capacity and average of 167 PH/s of Bitcoin GPU mining capacity during the month of June;
• This represents a 4.6% month over month end increase in BTC ASIC hashrate (May 30 month end was 3.17 EH/s hashrate), and a 3% month over month average increase in BTC hashrate from ASICs and GPUs combined (May average BTC hashrate was 3.3 EH/s).

Bitcoin Global Network Mining Difficulty Is Volatile

Network difficulty factors are a significant variable in the Company's gross profit margins. The Bitcoin network difficulty was 51.23 T as of June 1, and reached a new all-time high of 52.35 T during the month before ending at 50.65 T on June 30. Accordingly, Bitcoin mining difficulty ended the month about 1 % lower than the beginning of the month.

The Bitcoin Network Difficulty is a publicly available statistic, which reflects the total number of Bitcoin miners online and is important in analyzing a company's gross profit margins, and number of Bitcoin produced. This data is available on many websites, here is one citation: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/difficulty.

As more people mine Bitcoin (difficulty increases), the daily Bitcoin block reward which presently is fixed at 900 Bitcoin per day, gets split amongst more miners; thus each miner receives a smaller portion of the block reward. Conversely, as Bitcoin prices fall, many miners may lose money, and power down, thus taking their hashrate off the network, causing Network Difficulty to decrease.

Those miners with the lowest costs of production, by virtue of having more efficient machines and/or lower energy costs, are able to continue their production during these volatile cycles. Not all miners will continuously mine during the month, as a result some miners will produce less Bitcoin than expected, relative to their advertised hashrate. For the foregoing reasons, HIVE will self-curtail part of its operations if the unhedged spot energy prices are uneconomical, thereby leaving part of its total gross hashrate unutilized.

All Bitcoin miners are striving to use the most efficient Bitcoin ASIC chips, and we are happy that we have been able to upgrade our global fleet during this crypto market downturn.

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