−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
−Removed: Forward-Looking
−Removed: information in this report contains forward-looking statements.
−Removed: All statements other than statements of historical fact made in this
−Removed: report are forward looking.
−Removed: In particular, the statements herein regarding industry prospects and future results of operations or financial
−Removed: position are forward-looking statements.
−Removed: These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “believes,”
−Removed: “estimates,” “could,” “possibly,” “probably,” anticipates,” “projects,”
−Removed: “expects,” “may,” “will,” or “should” or other variations or similar words.
−Removed: No assurances
−Removed: can be given that the future results anticipated by the forward-looking statements will be achieved.
−Removed: Forward-looking statements reflect
−Removed: management’s current expectations and are inherently uncertain.
−Removed: If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or
−Removed: uncertainties materialize, our actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations.
−Removed: These risks and uncertainties
−Removed: include those factors described in greater detail in the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any
−Removed: of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
−Removed: Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
−Removed: or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
−Removed: are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report
−Removed: on Form 10-Q or, in the case of documents referred to or incorporated by reference, the date of those documents.
−Removed: following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our unaudited financial statements, included herewith.
−Removed: This discussion
−Removed: should not be construed to imply that the results discussed herein will necessarily continue into the future, or that any conclusion
−Removed: reached herein will necessarily be indicative of actual operating results in the future.
−Removed: Such discussion represents only the best present
−Removed: assessment of our management.
−Removed: Overview and Description of Business
−Removed: are a FinTech company and PayFac that focuses on a suite of products in the merchant services and payment facilitator verticals that
−Removed: seeks to provide integrated business solutions to merchants throughout the United States.
−Removed: We seek to accomplish this by providing
−Removed: merchants with a wide range of products and services through our various online platforms, including financial and transaction processing
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis
+Added: of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
+Added: Forward-Looking Statements
+Added: The information in this report
+Added: contains forward-looking statements.
+Added: All statements other than statements of historical fact made in this report are forward looking.
+Added: In particular, the statements herein regarding industry prospects and future results of operations or financial position are forward-looking
+Added: These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “believes,” “estimates,”
+Added: “could,” “possibly,” “probably,” anticipates,” “projects,” “expects,”
+Added: “may,” “will,” or “should” or other variations or similar words.
+Added: No assurances can be given that the
+Added: future results anticipated by the forward-looking statements will be achieved.
+Added: Forward-looking statements reflect management’s current
+Added: expectations and are inherently uncertain.
+Added: If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, our
+Added: actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations.
+Added: These risks and uncertainties include those factors described
+Added: in greater detail in the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities
+Added: and Exchange Commission.
+Added: Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect,
+Added: actual results may vary in material respects from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
+Added: The Company undertakes no
+Added: obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except
+Added: as may be required under applicable securities laws.
+Added: You are cautioned not to place
+Added: undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or, in the case
+Added: of documents referred to or incorporated by reference, the date of those documents.
+Added: The following discussion and
+Added: analysis should be read in conjunction with our unaudited financial statements, included herewith.
+Added: This discussion should not be construed
+Added: to imply that the results discussed herein will necessarily continue into the future, or that any conclusion reached herein will necessarily
+Added: be indicative of actual operating results in the future.
+Added: Such discussion represents only the best present assessment of our management.
+Added: Company Overview and Description of Business
+Added: We are a FinTech company that focuses on a suite of products in the
+Added: merchant services and payment facilitator verticals that seeks to provide integrated business solutions to merchants throughout the United States.
+Added: We seek to accomplish this by providing merchants with a wide range of products and services through our various online platforms, including
+Added: financial and transaction processing services.
We also have products that provide support for crowdfunding and other capital raising initiatives.
−Removed: We supplement our online
−Removed: platforms with certain hardware solutions that are integrated with our online platforms.
−Removed: Our business functions primarily through three
−Removed: wholly-owned subsidiaries, eVance, OmniSoft, and CrowdPay, though substantially all of our revenue has been generated from our eVance
−Removed: business (we began generating revenue from our OmniSoft and CrowdPay businesses in the second half of 2019).
−Removed: We expect to build out our
−Removed: OmniSoft software business and to rely more on our PayFac model for revenue so that we are not dependent on our revenue from our eVance
−Removed: business but there is no guarantee that we will be able to do so.
−Removed: respect to our eVance business, our merchants are currently processing over $100,000,000 in gross transactions monthly and average approximately
−Removed: 1,400,000 transactions a month.
+Added: We supplement our online platforms with certain hardware solutions that are integrated with our online platforms.
+Added: Our business functions
+Added: primarily through three wholly-owned subsidiaries, eVance, OmniSoft, and CrowdPay, though substantially all of our revenue has been
+Added: generated from our eVance business (we began generating revenue from our OmniSoft and CrowdPay businesses in the second half of 2019).
+Added: We expect to build out our OmniSoft software business and to rely more on our payment processing model for revenue so that we are not
+Added: dependent on our revenue from our eVance business but there is no guarantee that we will be able to do so.
+Added: With respect to our eVance
+Added: business, our merchants are currently processing over $100,000,000 in gross transactions monthly and average approximately 1,400,000 transactions
These transactions come from a variety of sources including direct accounts and ISO channels.
−Removed: consist of businesses across the United States with no concentration of industries or merchants.
−Removed: have integrated all the applications for OmniSoft and the ShopFast Omnicommerce solution with the eVance mobile payment gateway, SecurePay.comTM.
−Removed: SecurePay.comTM, is currently used by approximately 3,000 merchants processing over 32,000 transactions and approximately $9,000,000
−Removed: of monthly gross transactions (though our revenue from these transactions is limited).
−Removed: In July 2019, we launched a new merchant and ISO
−Removed: boarding system that will be able to onboard merchants instantly.
−Removed: This provides the merchant with an automated approval and ISOs will
−Removed: have the ability to see all their merchants and their residuals as they load to the system.
−Removed: May 22, 2020, the Company purchased certain assets from POSaBIT Inc.
−Removed: (“POSaBIT”), including its contracts and arrangements
−Removed: with the Doublebeam merchant payment processing platform (the “POSaBIT Asset Acquisition”).
−Removed: The assets included, but were
−Removed: not limited to, software source codes, customer lists, customer contracts, hardware and website domains.
−Removed: May 14, 2021, the Company formed OLBit, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary (“OLBit”).
−Removed: The purpose of OLBit is to hold the Company’s
−Removed: assets and operate its business related to its emerging cryptocurrency-related lending and transactional business.
−Removed: July 23, 2021, we formed DMINT, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary (“DMINT”) to operate in the cryptocurrency mining industry.
−Removed: DMINT has initiated the first phase of the cryptocurrency mining operation by placing purchase orders for data centers and ASIC-based
−Removed: Antminer S19J Pro mining computers specifically configured to mine Bitcoin.
−Removed: The first lot of equipment is being used to establish a proof
−Removed: of concept before DMINT expands the number of computers in operation.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, DMint has purchased 1,000 computers, of which
−Removed: 650 computers have been delivered with 250 online and mining for Bitcoin, 400 computers are in process of being installed and 350 additional
−Removed: computers are scheduled for delivery in 2022.
−Removed: It has six data centers located in Pennsylvania where it has mined ten Bitcoin.
−Removed: entered into an exclusive agreement whereby it has rights to all of the natural gas produced by 15 mines in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
−Removed: natural gas is taken directly from the well heads to generate electricity required to power the mining computers.
−Removed: As configured, it is
−Removed: expected that the computers purchased will have a combined computing power of approximately 100 petahash per second.
−Removed: If the initial mining
−Removed: operation results are as anticipated, DMINT plans to expand the number of mining computers every quarter, whereby it would aim to have
−Removed: the computing power of 500 petahash per second by the end of 2022.
−Removed: January 3, 2022, the Company entered into a share exchange agreement with all of the shareholders of Crowd Ignition, Inc.
−Removed: Ignition”) whereby the Company purchased 100% of the equity of Crowd Ignition).
−Removed: Ignition is a web-based crowdfunding software system.
−Removed: Ronny Yakov, Chairman and CEO of the Company and John Herzog, a shareholder of
−Removed: the Company, owned 100% of the equity of Crowd Ignition.
−Removed: The software provides broker-dealer, merchant banks and law firms a platform
−Removed: to market crowdfunding offerings, collect payments and issue securities.
−Removed: The software has been developed in response to, and to comply
−Removed: with, recent changes in investment regulations including Regulation D 506(b) and 506(v), Regulation A+ and Title III of the Jobs Act
−Removed: (Regulation CF), including raising the crowdfunding limit from $1.07 million to $5.0 million.
−Removed: Crowd Ignition is one of only about 50
−Removed: companies registered with the SEC to provide the services permitted under Regulation CF.
−Removed: of Operations
−Removed: discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations (“MD&A”) includes a discussion of the consolidated
−Removed: results from operations of The OLB Group, Inc.
−Removed: and its subsidiaries for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021.
−Removed: Months Ended June 30, 2022 Compared to the Three Months Ended June 30, 2021
−Removed: the three months ended June 30, 2022, we had total revenue of $8,372,435 compared to $2,833,572 of revenue for the three months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2022, an increase of $5,538,863 or 195.5%.
−Removed: We earned $7,813,969 in transaction and processing fees, $18,174 in merchant equipment
−Removed: rental and sales, $332,326 in other revenue from monthly recurring subscriptions and $207,966 of other revenue from the Cryptocurrency
−Removed: Mining segment during the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $2,666,049 in transaction and processing fees, $46,896 in merchant
−Removed: equipment sales and $120,627 in other revenue during the three months June 30, 2021.
−Removed: The increase in revenue was a result of an increase
−Removed: in the amount of fees earned from merchant processing transactions primarily due to the revenue attributed to the merchant portfolio
−Removed: acquired in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 and to revenue from cryptocurrency mining, which we did not have in the prior
+Added: The accounts consist of businesses
+Added: across the United States with no concentration of industries or merchants.
+Added: We have integrated all the
+Added: applications for OmniSoft and the ShopFast Omnicommerce solution with the eVance mobile payment gateway, SecurePay.comTM.
+Added: SecurePay.comTM,
+Added: is currently used by approximately 3,000 merchants processing over 32,000 transactions and approximately $9,000,000 of monthly gross transactions
+Added: (though our revenue from these transactions is limited).
+Added: In July 2019, we launched a new merchant and ISO boarding system that will be
+Added: able to onboard merchants instantly.
+Added: This provides the merchant with an automated approval and ISOs will have the ability to see all their
+Added: merchants and their residuals as they load to the system.
+Added: On May 22, 2020, the
+Added: Company purchased certain assets from POSaBIT Inc.
+Added: (“POSaBIT”), including its contracts and arrangements with the Doublebeam
+Added: merchant payment processing platform (the “POSaBIT Asset Acquisition”).
+Added: The assets included, but were not limited to, software
+Added: source codes, customer lists, customer contracts, hardware and website domains.
+Added: On May 14, 2021, the Company
+Added: formed OLBit, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary (“OLBit”).
+Added: The purpose of OLBit is to hold the Company’s assets and operate
+Added: its business related to its emerging cryptocurrency-related lending and transactional business.
+Added: On July 23, 2021, we formed DMINT, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary
+Added: (“DMINT”) to operate in the cryptocurrency mining industry.
+Added: DMINT has initiated the first phase of the cryptocurrency mining
+Added: operation by placing purchase orders for data centers and ASIC-based Antminer S19J Pro mining computers specifically configured to mine
+Added: The first lot of equipment is being used to establish a proof of concept before DMINT expands the number of computers in operation.
+Added: As of September 30, 2022, DMint has purchased 1,000 computers, of which all computers have been delivered with 350 online and mining for
+Added: Bitcoin and 400 computers are in process of being installed at the Company’s newly acquired building in Selmer, Tennessee.
+Added: six data centers located in Pennsylvania where it has mined 25 Bitcoin.
+Added: It has entered into an exclusive agreement whereby it has rights
+Added: to all of the natural gas produced by 15 mines in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
+Added: The natural gas is taken directly from the well heads to generate
+Added: electricity required to power the mining computers.
+Added: As configured, it is expected that the computers purchased will have a combined computing
+Added: power of approximately 100 petahash per second.
+Added: If the initial mining operation results are as anticipated, DMINT plans to expand the
+Added: number of mining computers every quarter, whereby it would aim to have the computing power of 500 petahash per second by the end of 2022.
+Added: On January 3, 2022, the Company
+Added: entered into a share exchange agreement with all of the shareholders of Crowd Ignition, Inc.
+Added: (“Crowd Ignition”) whereby the
+Added: Company purchased 100% of the equity of Crowd Ignition).
+Added: Crowd Ignition is a web-based crowdfunding
+Added: software system.
+Added: Ronny Yakov, Chairman and CEO of the Company and John Herzog, a shareholder of the Company, owned 100% of the equity
+Added: of Crowd Ignition.
+Added: The software provides broker-dealer, merchant banks and law firms a platform to market crowdfunding offerings, collect
+Added: payments and issue securities.
+Added: The software has been developed in response to, and to comply with, recent changes in investment regulations
+Added: including Regulation D 506(b) and 506(v), Regulation A+ and Title III of the Jobs Act (Regulation CF), including raising the crowdfunding
+Added: limit from $1.07 million to $5.0 million.
+Added: Crowd Ignition is one of only about 50 companies registered with the SEC to provide the services
+Added: permitted under Regulation CF.
+Added: Results of Operations
+Added: Management’s discussion
+Added: and analysis of financial condition and results of operations (“MD&A”) includes a discussion of the consolidated results
+Added: from operations of The OLB Group, Inc.
+Added: and its subsidiaries for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
+Added: Compared to the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
+Added: For the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, we had total revenue of $6,246,551 compared to $2,823,921 of revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2021,
+Added: an increase of $3,302,173 or 123.2%.
+Added: We earned $5,982,177 in transaction and processing fees, $8,417 in merchant equipment rental and
+Added: sales, $94,708 in other revenue from monthly recurring subscriptions and $161,249 of other revenue from the Cryptocurrency Mining
+Added: segment during the three months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $2,680,004 in transaction and processing fees, $32,787 in merchant
+Added: equipment sales and $111,130 in other revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: The increase in revenue was a result of
+Added: an increase in the amount of fees earned from merchant processing transactions primarily due to the revenue attributed to the merchant
+Added: portfolio acquired in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 and to revenue from cryptocurrency mining, which we did not have in the
+Added: prior period.
Processing and servicing costs increased by $2,455,472 or 110.4%
Amortization and depreciation
−Removed: expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $903,353 compared to $215,903 for the three months ended June 30, 2021, an increase
−Removed: of $687,450 or 318.4%.
−Removed: We record amortization expense on our merchant portfolio, trademarks and natural gas purchase rights.
−Removed: Our amortization
−Removed: expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022, increased in the current year period due to the agreement with Cai Energy to purchase
−Removed: natural gas to operate the cryptocurrency mining computers used in the Cryptocurrency Mining segment.
−Removed: Depreciation expense for our cryptocurrency
−Removed: mining segment was $702,494 in the current period due to the acquisition of Cryptocurrency Mining equipment.
−Removed: and wage expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022, was $622,914 compared to $336,703 for the three months ended June 30, 2021
+Added: expense for the three months ended September 30, 2022 was $892,788 compared to $269,475 for the three months ended September 30, 2021,
an increase of $623,313 or 231.3%.
−Removed: Salary and wage expense has increased due to the hiring of new employees during the latter part of 2021
−Removed: and to an increase in salary for our officers.
−Removed: fees for the three months ended June 30, 2022, were $292,747 compared to $383,383 for the three months ended June 30, 2021, a decrease
+Added: We record amortization expense on our merchant portfolio, trademarks and natural gas purchase rights.
+Added: Our amortization expense for the three months ended September 30, 2022, increased in the current year period due to the agreement with
+Added: Cai Energy to purchase natural gas to operate the cryptocurrency mining computers used in the Cryptocurrency Mining segment.
+Added: expense for our cryptocurrency mining segment was $799,716 in the current period due to the acquisition of Cryptocurrency Mining equipment.
+Added: Salary and wage expense for
+Added: the three months ended September 30, 2022, was $649,012 compared to $326,776 for the three months ended September 30, 2021, an increase
of $322,236 or 98.6%.
+Added: Salary and wage expense has increased due to the hiring of new employees during the latter part of 2021 and to an
+Added: increase in salary for our officers.
+Added: Professional fees for the
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2022, were $174,472 compared to $358,668 for the three months ended September 30, 2021, a decrease of
+Added: $184,196 or 51.4%.
Professional fees consist mainly of audit and legal fees.
−Removed: The decrease in the current period is mainly due to a
−Removed: decrease in legal expense.
−Removed: and administrative expenses (“G&A”) for the three months ended June 30, 2022, was $1,007,908 compared to $464,985 for
−Removed: the three months ended June 30, 2021, an increase of $542,923 or 116.8%.
−Removed: Some of our larger G&A expenses included insurance policy
−Removed: expense of $130,000 as a result of the cost to insure the cryptocurrency mining machines and the increase in the size of the Company’s
−Removed: business, travel of $71,000 from $11,000 in the same period of 2021, marketing and promotion of $58,000 from $7,400 in the same period
−Removed: of 2021, contracted services of $180,000 from $61,000 in the same period of 2021, utilities of $133,00 from $0 in the same period of
−Removed: 2021 and computer and internet expense of $131,000 from $68,000 in the same period of 2021.
+Added: The decrease in the current period is mainly due to a decrease
+Added: in legal expense.
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: expenses (“G&A”) for the three months ended September 30, 2022, was $753,944 compared to $545,646 for the three months
+Added: ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $208,298 or 38.2%.
+Added: Some of our larger G&A expenses included insurance policy expense of approximately
+Added: $104,000 as a result of the cost to insure the cryptocurrency mining machines and the increase in the size of the Company’s business,
+Added: travel of $71,000 from $29,000 in the same period of 2021 and utilities of $175,100 from $0 in the same period of 2021.
For the three months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2022, we had other income of $393,168 compared to $11 for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: In the current period we recognized
−Removed: a gain of $393,158 from the elimination of a liability associated with a prior adverse judgement which was reversed on appeal.
−Removed: Our net loss for the three months ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022 was $1,437,954 compared to $666,136 for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: We had an increase in our net loss of $577,374 for
−Removed: the reasons discussed above.
−Removed: Months Ended June 30, 2022 Compared to the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021
−Removed: the six months ended June 30, 2022, we had total revenue of $17,158,894 compared to $5,059,976 of revenue for the six months ended June
+Added: September 30, 2022, we had total other expense of $9,989 compared to other income of $10 for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: Our net loss for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2022 was $1,712,562 compared to $900,354 for the three months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: We had an increase in our net loss of $812,208
+Added: for the reasons discussed above.
+Added: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
+Added: Compared to the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
+Added: For the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, we had total revenue of $23,405,445 compared to $7,883,897 of revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2021,
an increase of $15,521,548 or 196.9%.
−Removed: We earned $16,227,398 in transaction and processing fees, $35,342 in merchant equipment
−Removed: rental and sales, $423,848 in other revenue from monthly recurring subscriptions and $472,306 of other revenue from the Cryptocurrency
−Removed: Mining segment during the six months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $4,756,313 in transaction and processing fees, $65,403 in merchant
−Removed: equipment sales and $238,260 in other revenue during the six months June 30, 2021.
−Removed: The increase in revenue was a result of an increase
−Removed: in the amount of fees earned from merchant processing transactions primarily due to the revenue attributed to the merchant portfolio
−Removed: acquired in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 and to revenue from cryptocurrency mining, which we did not have in the prior
+Added: We earned $22,209,575 in transaction and processing fees, $43,759 in merchant equipment rental and
+Added: sales, $518,556 in other revenue from monthly recurring subscriptions and $633,555 of other revenue from the Cryptocurrency Mining
+Added: segment during the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $7,436,317 in transaction and processing fees, $98,190 in merchant
+Added: equipment sales and $349,390 in other revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: The increase in revenue was a result of
+Added: an increase in the amount of fees earned from merchant processing transactions primarily due to the revenue attributed to the merchant
+Added: portfolio acquired in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021 and to revenue from cryptocurrency mining, which we did not have in the
+Added: prior period.
Processing and servicing costs increased by $11,739,731 or 200%.
Amortization and depreciation
−Removed: expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022, was $1,901,943 compared to $431,807 for the six months ended June 30, 2021, an increase
−Removed: of $1,470,136 or 340.5%.
+Added: expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, was $2,794,731 compared to $701,282 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021,
+Added: an increase of $2,093,449 or 298.5%.
We record amortization expense on our merchant portfolio, trademarks and natural gas purchase rights.
−Removed: Our amortization
−Removed: expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022, increased in the current year period due to the agreement with Cai Energy to purchase
−Removed: natural gas to operate the cryptocurrency mining computers used in the Cryptocurrency Mining segment.
−Removed: Depreciation expense for our cryptocurrency
−Removed: mining segment was $1,594,250 in the current period due to the acquisition of Cryptocurrency Mining equipment.
−Removed: and wage expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $1,156,773 compared to $1,156,794 for the six months ended June 30, 2021
−Removed: a decrease of only $21.
−Removed: There were $275,000 in salary increases in 2022.
−Removed: However, bonuses of $400,000 paid in the first quarter of 2021
−Removed: which were one-time payments resulted in a year-over-year decrease in the total salary and wage expense for the six months period.
−Removed: fees for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $619,154 compared to $610,3217 for the six months ended June 30, 2021, an increase of
−Removed: $8,827 or 1.4%.
−Removed: Professional fees consist mainly of audit and legal fees.
−Removed: The increase in the current period is mainly due to an increase
−Removed: in legal expense during the second three months of 2022.
−Removed: and administrative expenses (“G&A”) for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $2,243,225 compared to $864,310 for the
−Removed: six months ended June 30, 2021, an increase of $1,378,915 or 159.5%.
−Removed: Some of our larger G&A expenses included insurance policy expense
−Removed: of $166,000 as a result of the cost to insure the cryptocurrency mining machines and the increase in the size of the Company’s
−Removed: business, travel of $179,000 from $14,000 in the same period of 2021, marketing and promotion of $183,000 from $7,400 in the same period
−Removed: of 2021, contracted services of $439,000 from $126,000 in the same period of 2021, utilities of $231,00 from $0 in the same period of
−Removed: 2021and computer and internet expense of $277,000 from $161,000 in the same period of 2021.
−Removed: the six months ended June 30, 2022, we incurred $0 of interest expense, compared to $116,736 for the six months ended June 30, 2021,
−Removed: a decrease of $116,736.
−Removed: The decrease in interest expense is due the conversion of all related party debt and the repayment of the Term
−Removed: Loan in March 2021.
−Removed: For the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2022, we had other income of $393,179 compared to $24 for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: In the current period we recognized
−Removed: a gain of $393,158 from the reversal of a liability associated with a prior adverse judgement on appeal.
−Removed: Our net loss for the six months ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022 was $2,893,550 compared to $1,765,993 for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: We had an increase in our net loss of $933,113 for
−Removed: the reasons discussed above.
−Removed: and Capital Resources
−Removed: and Uncertainties
−Removed: Company’s financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected by a further prolonging of the COVID-19
−Removed: New York and Atlanta areas, including the location of the Company’s corporate headquarters and its operations business, continued
−Removed: to experience impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
−Removed: as some workers were forced to quarantine or convalesce as a result of the
−Removed: spread of the COVID-19 virus.
−Removed: The Company is currently following the recommendations of local health authorities to minimize exposure
−Removed: risk for its employees and visitors.
−Removed: During the first six months of 2022, the Company did not attribute any material impact on its business
−Removed: as a result of the pandemic.
−Removed: However, the duration of this pandemic continues to remain unknown.
−Removed: If there was another increase in cases
−Removed: requiring quarantines or closures of businesses by our merchants, the duration of the business disruption and related financial impact
−Removed: cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
−Removed: While the Company has specific business continuity plans to reduce the potential impact
−Removed: of COVID-19 during 2022 and believe that its business being principally operated using digital platforms, in the long-term, will suffer
−Removed: minimal ongoing negative impact, there is no guarantee that the Company’s continuity plans will be successful or that the Company’s
+Added: Our amortization expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, increased in the current year period due to the agreement with
+Added: Cai Energy to purchase natural gas to operate the cryptocurrency mining computers used in the Cryptocurrency Mining segment.
+Added: expense for our cryptocurrency mining segment was $2,393,966 in the current period due to the acquisition of Cryptocurrency Mining equipment.
+Added: Salary and wage expense for the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022 was $1,805,785 compared to $1,483,570 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 an increase of $322,215.
+Added: $275,000 in salary increases in 2022.
+Added: Professional fees for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 were
+Added: $793,626 compared to $968,995 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, a decrease of $175,369 or 18.1%.
+Added: Professional fees consist
+Added: mainly of audit and legal fees.
+Added: The decrease in the current period is mainly due to a decrease in legal and auditor expenses compared
+Added: with the prior period in which the Company completed an offering of its common stock and warrants.
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: expenses (“G&A”) for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was $2,997,169 compared to $1,409,956 for the nine months
+Added: ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $1,587,213 or 112.6%.
+Added: Some of our larger G&A expenses included insurance policy expense of
+Added: $234,000 as a result of the cost to insure the cryptocurrency mining machines and the increase in the size of the Company’s business,
+Added: travel of $250,000 from $40,000 in the same period of 2021, marketing and promotion of $180,000 from $7,400 in the same period of 2021,
+Added: contracted services of $511,000 from $233,000 in the same period of 2021, utilities of $406,000 from $0 in the same period of 2021and
+Added: computer and internet expense of $515,000 from $182,000 in the same period of 2021.
+Added: For the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, we incurred $0 of interest expense, compared to $116,736 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, a decrease
+Added: The decrease in interest expense is due the conversion of all related party debt and the repayment of the Term Loan in March
+Added: For the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, we had other income of $383,190 compared to $34 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: In the current period
+Added: we recognized a gain of $393,158 from the reversal of a liability associated with a prior adverse judgement on appeal.
+Added: Our net loss for the nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2022 was $4,606,112 compared to $2,666,347 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: We had an increase in our net loss of $1,939,765
+Added: for the reasons discussed above.
+Added: Liquidity and Capital Resources
+Added: Trends and Uncertainties
+Added: The Company’s financial condition
+Added: and results of operations may be adversely affected by a further prolonging of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: The New York and Atlanta areas,
+Added: including the location of the Company’s corporate headquarters and its operations business, continued to experience impacts of the
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
+Added: as some workers were forced to quarantine or convalesce as a result of the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
+Added: The Company is currently following the recommendations of local health authorities to minimize exposure risk for its employees and visitors.
+Added: During the first nine months of 2022, the Company did not attribute any material impact on its business as a result of the pandemic.
+Added: the duration of this pandemic continues to remain unknown.
+Added: If there was another increase in cases requiring quarantines or closures of
+Added: businesses by our merchants, the duration of the business disruption and related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this
+Added: While the Company has specific business continuity plans to reduce the potential impact of COVID-19, during the remainder of 2022
+Added: and into the future, and believe that its business being principally operated using digital platforms, in the long-term, will suffer minimal
+Added: ongoing negative impact, there is no guarantee that the Company’s continuity plans will be successful or that the Company’s
merchants will meet the number of forecasted transactions.
−Removed: 2021 and the first six months of 2022, the Company experienced some disruptions to its business and disruptions for the Company’s
−Removed: customers and merchants that had an impact on the number of transactions processed by the Company.
−Removed: The extent to which COVID-19 or any
−Removed: other health epidemic may impact the Company’s results for 2022 and beyond will depend on future developments and impacts of variants
−Removed: of the virus, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity
−Removed: of the continuing economic impact of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Accordingly, COVID-19 could still have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects during the second half of 2022 and beyond.
−Removed: in Cash Flows
−Removed: For the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2022, $556,820 of cash was used by operating activities, which included our net loss, offset by $3,334,499 for amortization and depreciation
−Removed: expense, $142,526 for stock-based compensation $65,674 of operating lease expense and net changes in operating assets and liabilities
−Removed: of $1,205,969.
−Removed: the six months ended June 30, 2022, we received net cash of $706,455 in financing activities from a loan payable.
−Removed: and Capital Resources
−Removed: June 30, 2022, the Company had cash of $3,619,974 and working capital of $2,807,441.
−Removed: The Company has approximately $3.8 million of outstanding
+Added: In 2021 and the first six
+Added: months of 2022, the Company experienced some disruptions to its business and disruptions for the Company’s customers and merchants
+Added: that had an impact on the number of transactions processed by the Company.
+Added: [From June to September 2022, the Company believes that its
+Added: business experience no disruptions to its business as a result of the pandemnic.] The extent to which COVID-19 or any other health epidemic
+Added: may impact the Company’s results for the remainder of 2022 and beyond will depend on future developments and impacts of variants
+Added: of the virus, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of
+Added: the continuing economic impact of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: Accordingly, COVID-19 could still have a material adverse effect
+Added: on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects during the remainder of 2022 and beyond.
+Added: Changes in Cash Flows
+Added: For the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, $1,028,510 of cash was used by operating activities, which included our net loss, offset by $5,204,443 for amortization
+Added: and depreciation expense, $213,219 for stock-based compensation and net changes in operating assets and liabilities of $1,840,060.
+Added: For the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2022, we received net cash of $631,942 in financing activities from a loan payable.
+Added: Liquidity and Capital Resources
+Added: At September 30, 2022, the Company had cash of $2,296,631 and working
+Added: capital of $2,172,843.
+Added: The Company has approximately $3.4 million of outstanding liabilities.
On March 2, 2021, the Company,
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purchase Common Stock were cancelled.
−Removed: addition, the Company has received a Paycheck Protection Program loan under the CARES Act for approximately $236,000 (the “PPP
−Removed: On October 11, 2021, the Company obtained forgiveness of all amounts due under the PPP Loan.
−Removed: November 2, 2021, the Company entered into a series of securities purchase agreements with certain institutional accredited investors
−Removed: pursuant to which the Company issued and sold, in a private placement (i) 1,969,091 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s
−Removed: Common Stock (ii) pre-funded warrants exercisable for a total of 2,576,364 shares of Common Stock (the “Prefunded Warrant Shares”)
−Removed: with an exercise price of $0.0001 per Prefunded Warrant Share, and (iii) warrants exercisable for a total of 4,545,455 shares of Common
−Removed: Stock (the “Common Warrant Shares” and together with the Prefunded Warrant Shares, the “Warrant Shares”) with
−Removed: an exercise price of $6.50 per Common Warrant Share.
−Removed: The offering closed on November 5, 2021 and the Company received net proceeds of
−Removed: approximately $22.9 million, after deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses.
−Removed: The Company intends to use the net
−Removed: proceeds from the offering to invest in or acquire companies or technologies that are synergistic with or complimentary to its business,
−Removed: to expand and market its current products and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
−Removed: Company has reviewed its cash flow for 2022, projected operating cash flows for 2022 and 2023 and performed an overall analysis of market
−Removed: trends to determine whether or not it has sufficient liquidity to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months
−Removed: from the date of this Quarterly Report.
−Removed: As a result of (a) the improved transaction volume trends the Company experienced during
−Removed: 2021 and the first six months ended June 30, 2022, (b) the increase in the number of merchants after the acquisitions of several portfolios
+Added: In addition, the Company has
+Added: received a Paycheck Protection Program loan under the CARES Act for approximately $236,000 (the “PPP Loan”).
+Added: On October 11,
+Added: 2021, the Company obtained forgiveness of all amounts due under the PPP Loan.
+Added: On November 2, 2021, the Company
+Added: entered into a series of securities purchase agreements with certain institutional accredited investors pursuant to which the Company
+Added: issued and sold, in a private placement (i) 1,969,091 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock (ii) pre-funded
+Added: warrants exercisable for a total of 2,576,364 shares of Common Stock (the “Prefunded Warrant Shares”) with an exercise price
+Added: of $0.0001 per Prefunded Warrant Share, and (iii) warrants exercisable for a total of 4,545,455 shares of Common Stock (the “Common
+Added: Warrant Shares” and together with the Prefunded Warrant Shares, the “Warrant Shares”) with an exercise price of $6.50
+Added: per Common Warrant Share.
+Added: The offering closed on November 5, 2021 and the Company received net proceeds of approximately $22.9 million,
+Added: after deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses.
+Added: The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to invest
+Added: in or acquire companies or technologies that are synergistic with or complimentary to its business, to expand and market its current products
+Added: and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
+Added: The Company has reviewed its
+Added: cash flow for 2022 and projected operating cash flows for the remainder of 2022 and 2023 and performed an overall analysis of market trends
+Added: to determine whether or not it has sufficient liquidity to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from the
+Added: date of this Quarterly Report.
+Added: As a result of (a) the improved transaction volume trends the Company experienced during 2021 and
+Added: the first nine months ended September 30, 2022, (b) the increase in the number of merchants after the acquisitions of several portfolios
during 2021, and (c) the funds received from the capital raises and PPP Loan, as discussed above, the Company believes it has sufficient
liquidity in order to sustain operations for at least the twelve months following the filing of this Quarterly Report.
−Removed: Accounting Policies
−Removed: to our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, for a full discussion of our critical accounting policies.
−Removed: July 12, 2022, the Board of the Company authorized a share repurchase program, pursuant to which the Company may repurchase up to 1 million
−Removed: shares of its outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: The Board authorized the Company to purchase its common stock from time to time on
−Removed: a discretionary basis through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or other means, including trading plans intended
−Removed: to qualify under Rule 10b5-1 of the Exchange Act, in accordance with applicable federal securities laws and other applicable legal requirements.
−Removed: The Company expects to fund these repurchases through existing cash balances.
−Removed: Decisions regarding the amount and the timing of purchases
−Removed: under the program will be influenced by the Company’s cash on hand, cash flows from operations, general market conditions and other
−Removed: The Company is not obligated to acquire any particular amount of its common stock.
−Removed: This program has no set termination date
−Removed: and may be suspended or discontinued by the Board at any time.
−Removed: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
−Removed: are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and, as such, are not required to provide
−Removed: the information under this Item.
+Added: Critical Accounting Policies
+Added: Refer to our Form 10-K for
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2021, for a full discussion of our critical accounting policies.
+Added: Subsequent Events
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
+Added: ABOUT MARKET RISK
+Added: We are a smaller reporting
+Added: company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and, as such, are not required to provide the information under
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