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             BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Investor Presentation – September 2018
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Forward Looking Statements
Except for the statements of historical fact, this presentation contains “forward-looking   The forward-looking information in this presentation reflects the current expectations,
information” (within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation) that    assumptions and/or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available to
is based on expectations, estimates and projections of the Company and Genesis Mining       the Company. In connection with the forward-looking information contained in this
as of May 2018. The information in this presentation about the completion of any            presentation, the Company has made assumptions, including, but not limited to
transaction including acquisition, expansion and construction of any data centres, the      assumptions about the Company’s and Genesis Mining's ability to complete any
business goals and objectives of the Company, any estimate of potential earnings, and       contemplated transactions, about historical prices of cryptocurrencies and the ability of
other forward-looking information, includes but is not limited to information               the Company to successfully mine cryptocurrencies consistent with historical prices,
concerning the intentions, plans, and future actions of the parties to the transactions     and that there will be no regulation or law that will prevent the Company from
described herein and the terms thereon. Projections relating to annualized run-rate         operating its business. The Company has also assumed that no significant events occur
revenues and gross margins are subject to the assumptions contained herein including        outside of the Company's normal course of business. Although the Company believes
future cryptocurrency prices, which are based upon managements best estimates but           that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking information and financial outlook
are inherently speculative and there is no guarantee that such assumptions and              are reasonable, forward-looking information and financial outlook is not a guarantee of
estimates will prove to be correct.                                                         future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such
                                                                                            information due to the inherent uncertainty therein. Reference should be made to the
This presentation also contains “financial outlook” in the form of annualized revenues      Company’s Filing Statement dated August 29, 2018 (available at www.sedar.com) for a
and gross margins, which are intended to provide additional information only and may        full list of the expectations and assumptions of the Company and Genesis Mining, and a
not be an appropriate or accurate prediction of future performance, and should not be       detailed description of the risk factors relating to the Company’s business.
used as such. The annualized run-rate revenues and gross margins disclosed in this          Any forward-looking information speaks only as of the date on which it is made and,
presentation are based on the assumptions disclosed in this presentation and in the         except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any
Company’s Management Discussion and Analysis for the second quarter ended June 30,          intent or obligation to update any forward-looking information, whether as a result of
2018 available on www.sedar.com, which assumptions are based upon management’s              new information, future events or results or otherwise.
best estimates but are inherently speculative and there is no guarantee that such
assumptions and estimates will prove to be correct.                                         In this presentation, “HIVE” or “Company” refers to HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such   (TSXV: HIVE).
forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, risks related to the
cryptocurrency markets generally, the Company’s ability to successfully mine
cryptocurrency, and other risks as more fully set out in disclosures filed by the Company
at www.sedar.com including its Filing Statement dated August 29, 2018.
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Recognizing opportunity
     requires VISION
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50%    World’s population
       using the internet

0.5%    Population using
        blockchain

90%    European and US
       banks exploring
       blockchain
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The Explosion of Cryptocurrencies

       Market Cap
       of all Coins
                                                                       $11.3
                                                                               $573
       (in billions)          $1.5            $7.1              $4.0
                             2013             2014             2015     2016    2017
      Number of
Cryptocurrencies
       (> $1mm)
                               8                29               33      69
                                                                                682

Bitcoin’s percentage
 of total market cap        92.5%            92.3%            83.5%    79.5%    39%

   As of September 2018, the market cap of all coins was $193B across 870 cryptocurrencies (>$1mm)
SOURCE: Coinmarketcap.com, last week of December 31 2017 each year                                                5
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 Currencies Are One Application for Blockchain

“What the internet did for communications, blockchain will do for trusted transactions.” — Ginni Rometty
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Blockchain is in the Early Innings of its Evolution
      Currency                    Utility Token            Security Token

These act as stores of value   Digital tokens that are    Function like a common
or a means of exchange.        necessary in order for     share and owners of token
                               users to utilize the       own a piece of the
Perhaps the best known         underlying technology.     underlying company
tokens. These are most like
fiat currencies and include    Ethereum is one example.   Overstock’s tZERO token
Bitcoin.                                                  is an example

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IBM and Maersk Driving Improvements With Blockchain
                           GLOBAL TRADING
                           COSTS

                             $136B
                   $1.8T

                                            GLOBAL TRADE DIGITIZATION

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Every Company will
        compete
    against a
      BLOCKCHAIN
         VERSION
           of itself

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Blockchain Companies Taking on the Disruptors

10% paid
to aggregators

0% fee to
use platform

               Blockchain disrupting the disruptors; no centralized authority is required
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We are building the
blockchain backbone

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Blockchain 101

As each         A miner         Transactions are   Each block is
transaction     connects each   chained together   added to the next
occurs, a       block to the    by a miner         in an irreversible
miner puts it   one before                         chain by a miner
into a block    and after it

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Blockchain – Web 3.0
     Why             How                Who
     immutable       technology /       blockchain
     trust           process (ledger)   expertise

     Transactions/      Blockchains       Building the future
      Interactions
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                       World’s Leading
                       Hashpower Provider

  2013                   2015                      2016                    2017

Genesis Mining was     Built first large scale   Built world’s largest   Genesis Mining
established by three   Bitcoin mining            Ether mining facility   entered exclusive
early Bitcoin          facility in Iceland       which was built         partnership with
investors.             using custom              specifically to         HIVE to offers pure
                       hardware.                 support                 play access to the
                                                 development of          blockchain and
                                                 Ethereum Project.       cryptocurrencies

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Genesis is an Important Partner

        DEPLOYMENT                          MONITORING                           MANAGEMENT

 Genesis Hive will detect miners    Provides hash rate, temperature,       Can perform bulk updates, pool
 and allow HIVE to reconfigure     estimated power consumption and        changes or setup automatic tasks
        it to our needs.            much more for real time analysis.      according to our requirements.

GENESIS HIVE is a proprietary web interface created by Genesis Mining that enables HIVE to easily setup,
     watch and manage our mining facilities. It is the ultimate control panel to manage our rigs.
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How We Earn Money
  Data Centres                                                                         Inventory

                             solving                     award
                             crypto-equations

                              validating
                                                         fees
                              transactions

    Profitability          =         {      ( facility_hash_rate, power_consumption, )1
                                        ( coin_price, network_hash_rate, )2   ( cost_per_kwh )3   }
 Operating in jurisdictions with LOW POWER COSTS, cold climate, and fast internet connectivity
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Today:
                                          HIVE Coin Inventory
                                          Breakdown (US$M)
              Sweden                      (as at June 30, 2018)
              20.4 MW
                                                                         $1.29

Iceland                                               $14.78              $0.04
3.8 MW

24MW                   Facilities in
                       two countries
 44.2 MW of development is fully funded
                                                5              Transactions
                                                               since 2017
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Corporate History
   Maiden Transaction                  Announces Financing and                    Increases Mining                       Closes Oversubscribed                 Closes Oversubscribed
   Enters LOI with Genesis Mining      2nd Acquisition                            Capacity by 175%                       Financing                             Financing
   to acquire a 2.0MW mining           Announces C$30.0M (20M                     Enters into legally binding letter     Closes C$34.5M oversubscribed         Closes C$115.0M
   facility in Iceland (US$9.0M, 30%   shares) bought deal. Enters LOI            with Genesis to commence               bought deal with Genesis              oversubscribed marketed deal
   of HIVE). Announces C$15.0M         with Genesis to acquire 2nd facility       construction on a new mining           Mining subscribing for C$5.1M.        with Genesis Mining subscribing
   financing                           in Iceland (C$5M, 2M common                facility in Sweden for US$22.0M.                                             for C$3.0M.
                                       shares)

        June           September           September            October              October           October          November         December         December
      14, 2017          15, 2017            21, 2017            11, 2017             23, 2017          25, 2017          14, 2017         13, 2017         29, 2017

            Completes Acquisition                     Closes Financing and                  Announces Financing                Announces Financing
            Closes upsized C$16.5M financing          Acquisition of 2nd                    and 2nd Facility in                and Bitcoin Expansion
            and acquires mining facility from         Facility                              Sweden                             Announces C$100.0M (31.7M
            Genesis for US$9.0M and 68.0M             Closes acquisition of 2nd facility    Announces C$30.0M (10.7M           units) financing. Enters into
            shares in HIVE. Company is                in Iceland. Grows computing           units). Enters into a agreement    agreement with Genesis to
            renamed HIVE Blockchain.                  power by 70%. Closes C$30M            with Genesis to commence 2nd       commence on a GPU / BTC
                                                      bought deal and C$7M                  facility in Sweden to double       based mining facility in
                                                      investment by Genesis Mining          HIVE’s computing power in          Sweden.
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Progress in 2018
                         Completes Sweden Phase 2                    Completes Acquisition of         Announces Upcoming Launch of
                         Completes construction                      Kolos Norway AS                  Cloud Based ASIC Mining Power
                         and increases mining capacity by ~65%.      Completes agreement to acquire   Announces 200 PH (~20 MW) of cloud-
                                                                     all assets of Kolos Norway AS    based ASIC mining power

                   January               April          May                 May              June             August
                   15, 2018             3, 2018        1, 2018            22, 2018         30, 2018          15, 2018

         Completes Sweden                   Completes                             Significantly expands
         Phase 1                            Sweden Phase 3                        coin inventory
         Completes construction and         Completes construction                Held 33,000 Ethereum and
         increases mining capacity by       and increases mining                  80,000 Ethereum Classic
         ~175%. Commences mining            capacity by ~39%.
                                                                                  at the end of Q1/19
         of Ethereum.

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BitNEXT:
Backbone of Blockchain

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Management

          Frank Holmes            Olivier Roussy Newton
     Interim Executive Chairman      Interim President

        CEO & CIO US Global         Co-Founder of HIVE
                                  Partner at Latent Capital
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 Board of Directors
                Frank Holmes, Chairman                                     Bjoern Arzt                                                 Tobias Ebel
                CEO and CIO, U.S. Global Investors                         Managing Partner, Logos Fund                                 Managing Partner, Logos Fund
                 Frank is chief executive and chief                      Bjoern is a lawyer who has spent                              Tobias has more than 10 years in
                investment officer at U.S. Global                         the last 10 years structuring                                 the funds industry and is a
                Investors, which specializes in natural                  asset-backed and fund structures for a                        specialist lawyer for legal, regulatory,
resources and emerging markets investing. He is a         major European investment bank. Since 2012, he has          tax, accounting, and structuring aspects of investment
regular commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, BNN, and          focused on the cryptocurrency industry and has helped       funds. His work in the cryptocurrency industry and
Fox Business, and the recipient of numerous awards and    to grow Genesis’ cryptocurrency mining activities.          has helped to solve legal and tax problems in
accolades over his decades long career.                   He has developed a strong knowledge of the                  cryptocurrency mining and investment activities.
                                                          economics of cryptocurrency mining.

                Olivier Roussy Newton                                      Marcus New
                Partner, Latent Capital                                     Founder, InvestX Capital
                Olivier is a technology entrepreneur                        Marcus is an entrepreneur that
               and a partner at Latent Capital, an                          has built a number of businesses
               investment fund focused on early to                          disrupting the capital markets. He is
mid-stage opportunities in quantum computing, financial    the founder and chairman (and previously the CEO) of
technology and bioinformatics.                            Stockhouse Publishing and the Chief Entrepreneur of
                                                          Investx Capital Ltd, the first cross border global online
                                                          private equity and venture capital platform.
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CORPORATE INFO & CAPITAL STRUCTURE
   TICKER                        KEY SHAREHOLDERS (BASIC)
   TSX.V: HIVE                   Genesis Mining Ltd. – 24.7%
   OTC BB: HVBTF                 U.S. Global Investors – 3.2%
   Börse Berlin AG: HBF.BE       Directors & Officers – 1.4%
   Börse Frankfurt: HBF.F
                               Source: Company Public Filings

   ISSUED AND OUTSTANDING      An aggregate of 68.3M shares owned by Genesis, Olivier Roussy Newton and
                               previous management are subject to an escrow agreement and are subject to
   314M (383M Fully Diluted)
                               a hold period ranging from 6 – 36 months following receipt of final approvals
                               from the TSX Venture Exchange on September 15, 2017.

                               FOR MORE INFORMATON                   www.HIVEblockchain.com
                               & COMPANY UPATES:
                                                                       @HIVEBlockchain

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