HIVE Digital Technologies vs OCEAN

How HIVE Digital Technologies vs OCEAN compare on our ratings, mining company specs, funding, pros and cons.

OCEAN3.9/5

Feature	HIVE Digital Technologies Visit	OCEAN Visit
Ratings
Our score	4.1/5	3.9/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Track record	4.5	3.5
Costs & fees	4.0	4.0
Transparency	4.5	5.0
Scale & reliability	4.5	3.5
Support	3.0	3.5
Specs
Type	Public miner, Hosting	Mining pool
Coins	BTC	BTC
Pool fee	Not disclosed	1% (DATUM) to 2%
Payout schemes	Not disclosed	TIDES
Minimum payout	Not disclosed	0.01048576 BTC (on-chain)
Hashrate	25.1 EH/s	22.15 EH/s
Stock ticker	NASDAQ: HIVE, TSX: HIVE	Not disclosed
Locations	Canada, Sweden, Paraguay	Not disclosed
Energy sources	Hydroelectric	Not disclosed
Hardware models	ASIC, NVIDIA GPUs	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2017	2023
Headquarters	—	—
Investors	Not disclosed	Jack Dorsey
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Operates 440 MW of renewable data center capacity across three continents Generated 25.1 EH/s in installed Bitcoin mining hashrate as of March 2026 Diversified revenue across Bitcoin mining and enterprise BUZZ HPC GPU hosting Publicly listed on Nasdaq and TSX with audited financial reporting	Non-custodial payouts sent straight from block coinbase transactions No user accounts or identity verification required to connect Fee drops to 1% when building block templates using DATUM SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance attestations completed
Cons	Does not offer retail mining pool services or private hosting contracts Bitcoin mining revenues are exposed to network difficulty increases and halvings Brand is frequently targeted by unauthorized third-party phishing schemes	Subject to block variance since rewards only pay out when blocks are found Standard 2% pool fee is higher than many custodial competitors Minimum on-chain payout threshold requires 0.01048576 BTC for active miners DATUM block construction requires running and maintaining a personal Bitcoin node
Best for	Equity investors seeking Bitcoin mining exposure, Enterprises requiring GPU cloud compute, Institutions tracking green data center infrastructure	Miners seeking non-custodial payouts, Operators running independent Bitcoin nodes, Small miners using Lightning payouts

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