SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES | SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP"). Any reference in these Notes to applicable guidance refers to U.S. GAAP as found in U.S. Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") and Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB"). The consolidated financial statements reflect the Company's accounts and operations and those of its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. Going Concern In accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the "FASB") Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern, the Greenidge's management evaluated whether there are conditions or events that pose risk associated with the Company's ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date these financial statements have been issued. The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that it will continue as a going concern. The Company has historically incurred operating losses and negative cash flows from operations. These factors raise substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The halving of bitcoin, expected in April 2024, may have an adverse effect on the Company’s projected future cash flows. The fixed costs to operate the business including, but not limited to, insurance, overhead and capital expenditures, as well as the variable input costs to operate the Company’s datacenters, has a material impact on the Company’s continuing operations and ability to generate positive cash flows. While the market has improved in 2023 and 2024, the Company continues to have to address the possibility of negative impacts of the price of bitcoin and natural gas as these have proven to be volatile markets. As a result, management took certain actions during the during 2023 to improve the Company's liquidity that are described further below. At December 31, 2023, the Company ha d $13.3 million of cash, restricted cash and cash equivalents and other current assets of $11.1 million, while having $9.6 million of accounts payable and accrued expenses, emissions liability of $10.5 million, and an estimated $0.4 million of environmental liability spend in the next 12 months, which results in ending working capital of $3.4 million. Additionally, the Company has $6.1 million of interest payments due over the next twelve months. The ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the Company generating profitable operations in the future and/or obtaining the necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when they come due. In an effort to improve liquidity, the Company has completed or is in the process of completing the following transactions: • In September 2022, Greenidge entered into an at-the-market issuance sales agreement, as amended, dated as of September 19, 2022, by and among the Company, B. Riley Securities, Inc. (“B. Riley Securities”) and Northland Securities, Inc., relating to shares of Greenidge’s Class A common stock (the "ATM Agreement"), and since October 23, 2022 through April 5, 2024, have received net proceeds of $20.7 million from sales of Class A common stock under the ATM Agreement. See Note 6, "Stockholder's Equity", for further details. • On January 30, 2023, the Company entered into debt restructuring agreements with NYDIG ABL LLC ("NYDIG") and B. Riley Commercial Capital, LLC ("B. Riley Commercial"). The restructuring of the NYDIG debt improved the Company's liquidity during 2023 as the payments required in 2023 on the remaining principal balance is interest payments of $2.0 million. This reduced debt service is substantially lower than the $62.7 million of principal and interest payments which would have been required in 2023 pursuant to the 2021 and 2022 Master Equipment Finance Agreements, both of which were refinanced in January 2023. See Note 5, "Debt" for further details regarding the debt restructuring agreements. • In conjunction with the restructuring of the debt with NYDIG, the Company also entered into hosting agreements with NYDIG on January 30, 2023 (the “NYDIG Hosting Agreements”), which improved its liquidity position, as it provided for cost reimbursements for key input costs, while allowing the Company to participate in the upside should bitcoin prices rise. • As described in Note 1, on November 9, 2023, the Company closed the sale of the South Carolina Facility to complete the deleveraging transaction with NYDIG. In exchange for the sale to NYDIG of the upgraded 44 MW South Carolina mining facilities and the subdivided real estate of approximately 22 acres of land, the Company received total consideration of $28 million, as follows: ◦ The Senior Secured Loan with NYDIG with remaining principal of $17.7 million was extinguished; ◦ The B. Riley Commercial Secured Promissory Note with remaining principal of $4.1 million, which NYDIG purchased from B. Riley Commercial on July 20, 2023 at par was extinguished; ◦ A cash payment of approximately $4.5 million, and ◦ The Company also received bonus payments earned of approximately $1.6 million as a result of the completion of the expansion of the upgraded mining facility and the facility's uptime performance. The Company recognized a gain on the sale of the South Carolina Facility of $8.2 million. In conjunction with the sale, the Company and NYDIG terminated the South Carolina Hosting Order. The NYDIG Hosting Agreement related to the New York Facility was not impacted by this transaction and remains in place. Following the completion of the South Carolina Facility sale, the Company continues to own approximately 153 acres of land in South Carolina, and is assessing potential uses of the remaining site, which may include the sale of the property. • In addition, the Company sold equipment, coupons and certain environmental credits for total proceeds of $11.7 million from the second quarter of 2022 through the first quarter of 2023 to raise additional funds. • Since entering into the NYDIG Hosting Agreements, the Company has identified opportunities to deploy its company-owned miners. In March 2023, the Company entered into a hosting agreement with Conifex Timber Inc. ("Conifex"), whereby Conifex will provide hosting services to Greenidge utilizing renewable power (the “Conifex Hosting Agreement”). In April 2023, the Company entered into a hosting agreement with Core Scientific, Inc. ("Core") in which Core will host and operate Greenidge-owned bitcoin miners at its facilities (the “Core Hosting Agreement”, and together with the NYDIG Hosting Agreements and the Conifex Hosting Agreement, the “Hosting Agreements”). • On March 6, 2024, we agreed to purchase a parcel of land containing approximately 12 acres located in Columbus, Mississippi, including over 73,000 square feet of industrial warehouse space. We expect the transaction to close in April 2024 and intend to deploy 7 MW of miners on the property in the second quarter of 2024. We have also deployed additional miners in conjunction with a 7.5 MW mining capacity lease in North Dakota, which has a term of five years and provides us with energy to power mining. The Company believes the addition of these datacenters will improve the Company’s profits and liquidity during the remainder of 2024 and beyond. Despite these improvements to the Company's financial condition, Greenidge management expects that it will require additional capital in order to fund the Company’s expenses and to support the Company’s near-term working capital needs and remaining debt servicing requirements. Management continues to assess different options to improve its liquidity which include, but are not limited to: • issuances of equity, including but not limited to issuances under the Equity Purchase Agreement and/or the ATM Agreement. • a sale of the Company's remaining real estate in South Carolina and/or sale of the remaining miner infrastructure equipment inventory, which was not used in the South Carolina expansion. The Company estimates that substantially all of its cash resources will be depleted by the end of the first quarter of 2025. The Company's estimate of cash resources available to the Company for the next 12 months is dependent on completion of certain actions, including obtaining additional short-term outside financing, executing on certain investing transactions; as well as bitcoin prices and blockchain difficulty levels similar to those existing as of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and energy prices similar to the those experienced in the fourth and first quarters of 2023 and 2024, respectively. While bitcoin prices have begun to recover during 2023 and the first quarter of 2024 from the significant declines experienced in 2022, management cannot predict when or if bitcoin prices will recover to sufficient levels for a sustained period of time in light of the halving set to occur in April 2024, or the volatility of energy costs. While the Company continues to work to implement options to improve liquidity, there can be no assurance that these efforts will be successful and the Company's liquidity could be negatively impacted by factors outside of its control, in particular, significant decreases in the price of bitcoin, regulatory changes concerning cryptocurrency, increases in energy costs or other macroeconomic conditions and other matters identified in Part I, Item 1A "Risk Factors" in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Given this uncertainty regarding the Company's financial condition over the next 12 months from the date these financial statements were issued, the Company has concluded that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Use of estimates The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates made by management include, but are not limited to, estimates of the recoverability and useful lives of long-lived assets, stock-based compensation, current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, and environmental liabilities. Significant Accounting Policies Segment Reporting Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker ("CODM") in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. As of December 31, 2023, Greenidge operates in one operating and reporting segment. The Company’s cryptocurrency mining, datacenter hosting and power generation operations are located in the United States, and the Company views these operations as one operating segment as the CODM reviews financial information on a consolidated basis in making decisions regarding resource allocations and assessing performance. The Company generates revenue primarily by (1) earning bitcoin, with miners that are owned by the Company, as rewards and transaction fees for supporting the global bitcoin network and (2) providing hosting, power and technical support services to third-party owned bitcoin mining equipment. The Cryptocurrency Mining, Datacenter Hosting and Power Generation operations also sell surplus electricity generated by the Company's power plant, and not consumed in cryptocurrency mining and datacenter hosting operations, to the NYISO power grid at prices set on a daily basis through the NYISO wholesale market. In addition, the Company receives revenues from the sale of its capacity and ancillary services in the NYISO wholesale market. Discontinued Operations The Company deems it appropriate to classify a component as a discontinued operation if the related disposal group meets all the following criteria: (1) the disposal group is a component of the Company; (2) the component meets the held-for-sale criteria; and (3) the disposal of the component represents a strategic shift that has a major effect on the Company's operations and financial results. The contract for Support.com's largest customer was not renewed upon its expiration on December 31, 2022. As a result of this material change in the business, management and the Board of Directors made the determination to consider various alternatives for Support.com, including the disposition of assets. As of December 31, 2022, the Company classified the Support.com business as held for sale and discontinued operations in these consolidated financial statements as a result of its strategic shift to strictly focus on its cryptocurrency mining, datacenter hosting and power generation operations. Cash and Cash Equivalents All liquid instruments with an original maturity, at the date of purchase, of 90 days or less are classified as cash equivalents. Cash equivalents consist primarily of money market funds, certificates of deposit, commercial paper, corporate notes and bonds, and U.S. government agency securities. The Company’s interest income on cash and cash equivalents is included in interest expense, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Digital Assets Digital assets, primarily consisting of bitcoin, are included in current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Digital assets are classified as indefinite-lived intangible assets in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other , and are accounted for in connection with Greenidge’s revenue recognition policy disclosed below. Digital assets held are considered an intangible asset with an indefinite useful life, which is not amortized but assessed for impairment annually, or more frequently, when events or changes in circumstances occur indicating that it is more likely than not that the indefinite-lived asset is impaired. The Company performs an analysis each period to identify whether events or changes in circumstances, principally decreases in the quoted prices on active exchanges, indicate that it is more likely than not that its digital assets are impaired. Digital assets are considered impaired if the carrying value is greater than the lowest intraday quoted prices at any time during the period. For quoted prices of bitcoin, the Company uses daily exchange data from its principal market. Subsequent reversal of impairment losses is not permitted. There were no impairments recorded during 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company assessed its digital assets for impairment, and recorded an impairment of $0.1 million which is included in Other income, net on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s digital assets consisted of 8.71 and 31.4 bitcoins, respectively. Bitcoins held as of December 31, 2023 were liquidated and remitted to the Company in early January 2024 as part of its ordinary operations. The Company considers the conversion of digital assets into U.S. dollars as a part of its normal operating activities and includes the impact of that conversion in Net cash flow used by operating activities from continuing operations on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The Company’s Bitcoin is sold on a daily basis after it is earned and that any difference in fair value and the amount of consideration received is recognized as a gain or loss on sale of digital assets. The earned bitcoin is exchanged for U.S. dollars. Digital Assets at December 31, 2022 348 Revenues from digital asset production 24,238 Sale of digital assets (24,239) Digital Assets at December 31, 2023 347 Accounts Receivable The Company provides credit in the normal course of business to its power customer, the NYISO, and hosting customer, NYDIG. The NYISO makes payments, depending on the type of revenue, within seven days of usage or seven days of month end. The NYDIG Hosting Agreement requires advance payment for estimated hosting services. The balance based on actual results is due upon receipt. There are currently no accounts receivable associated with cryptocurrency mining revenues. We have not experienced any historic credit losses with our power or hosting customers and therefore, we determined that no allowance for doubtful accounts is required for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. Emissions Expense and Credits The Company participates in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ("RGGI"), which requires, by law, that the Company remit credits to offset 50% of the Company’s annual emission expense in the following year, for each of the years in the three year control period (January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023). In March 2024, the Company settled the emissions allowance for the control period. The Company recognizes expense on a per ton basis, where one ton is equal to one RGGI credit. The RGGI credits are recorded on a first in, first out ("FIFO") basis. The Company incurred emissions expense of $6.5 million and $4.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, which was allocated between cost of revenue - cryptocurrency mining, cost of revenue - datacenter hosting and cost of revenue - power and capacity, based on the relative percentage of MWh consumed for each, in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Property and Equipment, net Property and equipment are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the Company’s depreciable assets, as noted in the table below. Construction in process is comprised of assets which have not been placed into service and is not depreciated until the related assets are complete and ready for their intended use, at which time the cost is transferred to the appropriate property and equipment class. Land and miner deposits are not depreciated. Repairs and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. See Note 4, " Property and Equipment, Net" for additional information. Asset Class Estimated Useful Plant infrastructure 10 years Miners 3 years Miner facility infrastructure 10 years Equipment 5 years Software 3 years Valuation of Long-Lived Assets The Company reviews its long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. To determine recoverability of a long-lived asset, management evaluates whether the estimated future undiscounted net cash flows, based on prevailing market conditions, from the asset are less than its carrying amount. If impairment is indicated, the long-lived asset is written down to fair value. The Company recognized a noncash impairment charge of $4.0 million and $176.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. See Note 4, " Property and Equipment, Net " for additional information. Investments in Equity Securities The Company owns common shares in a private company. The Company does not have control and does not have the ability to exercise significant influence over operating and financial policies of this entity. The investment does not have a readily determinable fair value and thus the investment is measured at cost less impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for identical or similar investments. Investments in equity securities are a component of Other long-term assets and gains (losses) on equity securities are recorded in Other income (expense) on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Derivative Financial Instruments The Company holds an equity warrant asset in a private company that gives it the right to acquire common stock in the private company. The equity warrant asset contains net settlement terms, thus the Company records it as a derivative. The equity warrant asset entitles the Company to purchase a specific number of shares of common stock at a specific price within a specific time period, in this case 1 year. The equity warrant asset contains an automatic exercise provision if the Company does not exercise prior to expiration, or provide notice of its intent not to exercise. Upon automatic exercise, the Company will receive a share count equal to the intrinsic value of the warrant divided by the share price. The equity warrant asset is recorded at fair value and is classified as a derivative asset, a component of prepaid expenses and other current assets. The asset is held for prospective investment gains and is not used to hedge any economic risks. Any changes in fair value from the grant date fair value of the equity warrant asset classified as a derivative is recognized as an increase or decrease to Prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and as net gains or losses on derivative instruments, in Other income (expense) on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Environmental Liability Environmental liabilities are recognized in accordance with ASC 410-30, Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations when the costs are probable and estimable. As of December 31, 2023, we have recognized environmental liabilities for a coal ash pond and landfill which were inherited due to the legacy coal operations at the Company's property in the Town of Torrey, New York. The Company determines the estimate by developing key assumptions to determine the expected cost of remediation. Estimates are based on various assumptions that are sensitive to changes including, but not limited to, closure and post-closure cost estimates, timing of expenditures, escalation factors, and requirements of granted permits. Revenue Recognition The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers . The core principle of the revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle: • Step 1: Identify the contract, or contracts, with the customer; • Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract; • Step 3: Determine the transaction price; • Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and • Step 5: Recognize revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation. In order to identify the performance obligations in a contract with a customer, the Company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify each promised good or service that is distinct. A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a "distinct" good or service (or bundle of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met: The customer can benefit from the good or service either on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the good or service is capable of being distinct), and the entity’s promise to transfer the good or service to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the good or service is distinct within the context of the contract). If a good or service is not distinct, the good or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified that is distinct. The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer. The consideration promised in a contract with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. When determining the transaction price, an entity must consider the effects of all of the following: • Variable consideration; • Constraining estimates of variable consideration; • The existence of a significant financing component in the contract; • Noncash consideration; and • Consideration payable to a customer. Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. The transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis. The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation is recognized when that performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or over time as appropriate. Cryptocurrency Mining Revenue Greenidge has entered into digital asset mining pools by executing contracts with the mining pool operators to perform hash computations for a mining pool. The contracts are terminable at any time at no cost by either party and Greenidge’s enforceable right to compensation begins only when, and lasts as long as, Greenidge performs hash computations for the mining pool operator. In exchange for performing hash computations, Greenidge is entitled to a fractional share of the cryptocurrency award the mining pool operator theoretically receives less the mining pool fees. The agreements entered into with the pool operators pay out based on a Full-Pay-Per-Share (“FPPS”) payout formula, which is a conceptual formula that entitles Greenidge to consideration upon the provision of hash computations to the pool even if a block is not successfully placed by the pool operator. Revenue is measured as the value of the consideration received in the form of cryptocurrency from the pool operator, less the mining pool fees retained by the mining pool operator. Greenidge does not expect any material future changes in mining pool fee rates. In exchange for performing hash computations for the mining pool, the Company is entitled to a fractional share of the fixed cryptocurrency award the mining pool operator receives along with a share of transaction fees (less pool operator fees to the mining pool operator which are netted as a reduction of the transaction price). Greenidge’s fractional share is based on the proportion of hash computations the Company performed for the mining pool operator to the total hash computations contributed by all mining pool participants in solving the current algorithm during the 24-hour period. Daily earnings calculated under the FPPS payout formula are calculated from midnight-to-midnight UTC time and are credited to pool members’ accounts at 1:00:00 A.M. UTC. The pool sends Greenidge’s cryptocurrency balance in the account to a digital wallet designated by the Company between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. UTC time each day, which Greenidge automatically sells for cash within minutes of receipt. The service of performing hash computations for the mining pool operators is an output of Greenidge’s ordinary activities and is the only performance obligation in Greenidge’s contracts with mining pool operators. The cryptocurrency that Greenidge receives as transaction consideration is noncash consideration, which Greenidge measures at fair value on the contract inception date at 0:00:00 UTC on the start date of the contract. The fair value is based on Greenidge’s primary exchange of the related cryptocurrency which is considered to be Coinbase. The consideration Greenidge earns is variable since it is based on the amount of hash computations provided by Greenidge. The Company does not constrain this variable consideration because it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of revenue recognized from the contract will not occur when the uncertainty is subsequently resolved and recognizes the non-cash consideration on the same day that control is transferred, which is the same day as contract inception. Power and Capacity Revenue Greenidge recognizes power revenue at a point in time when the electricity is delivered to the NYISO and its performance obligation is met. Greenidge recognizes revenue on capacity agreements over the life of the contract as its series of performance obligations are met as capacity to provide power is maintained. Sales tax, value-added tax, and other taxes Greenidge collects concurrent with revenue-producing activities are excluded from revenue. Incidental contract costs that are not material in the context of the delivery of goods and services are recognized as expense. There is no significant financing component in these transactions. Datacenter Hosting Revenue The Company generates revenue from contracts with customers from providing hosting services to a single third-party customer. Hosting revenue is recognized as services are performed on a variable basis. The Company recognizes variable hosting revenue each month as the uncertainty related to the consideration is resolved, hosting services are provided to its customer, and its customer utilizes the hosting service (the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits of the Company's performance). The Company's performance obligation related to these services is satisfied over time. The Company recognizes revenue for services that are performed on a consumption basis (the amount of electricity utilized by the customer) as well as through a fixed fee that is earned monthly and a profit sharing component based on the net proceeds earned by the customer in the month from bitcoin mining activities. The Company bills its customer at the beginning of each month based on the anticipated consumption under the contract. Invoices are collected in the month of invoicing under the terms of the contract. The Company recognizes revenue based on actual consumption in the period. Cryptocurrency Mining Cost of Revenue Cost of revenue—cryptocurrency datacenter consists primarily of natural gas, emissions, hosting fees paid to third party hosting sites, payroll and benefits and other direct production costs associated with the megawatts generated for the digital mining operation Datacenter Hosting Cost of Revenue Cost of revenue—datacenter hosting consists primarily of natural gas, emissions, payroll and benefits and other direct production costs associated with the megawatts generated for the datacenter hosting operation. Power and Capacity Cost of Revenue Cost of revenue—power and capacity consists primarily of natural gas, emissions, payroll and benefits and other direct production costs associated with the megawatts generated for the power produced by Greenidge and sold to the grid. Selling, General and Administrative Expenses Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of administrative payroll and benefits, business development costs, professional fees, and insurance. Stock-Based Compensation The Company accounts for share-based payment awards exchanged for services at the estimated grant date fair value of the award. Stock options issued under the Company’s equity incentive plans are granted with an exercise price equal to no less than the market price of the Company’s stock at the date of grant and expire up to ten years from the date of the grants. These options generally vest on the grant date or over a three year period. The Company has elected to account for forfeitures of employee awards as they occur. Restricted stock units ("RSUs") issued under the Company's equity incentive plans are granted to employees and directors and vest over their requisite service period. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock option grants using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model and the assumptions used in calculating the fair value of stock-based awards represent management’s best estimates and involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management’s judgement. The fair value of RSUs is measured on the grant date based on the closing fair market value of the Company's common stock. Stock-based compensat |