HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. announced that it has received regulatory approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for the previously announced deployment of 100 Petahashes ("PH") of cloud-based ASIC mining capacity, a 50% increase to 300 PH, which has been deployed to mine Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. The approval for the increased ASIC capacity comes as Ethereum has experienced a surge in value by more than 70% since early December 2018. HIVE continues to mine Ethereum using assets with cumulative GPU capacity of 24.2 Megawatts located in Iceland and Sweden.