Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the LM Funding Third Quarter 2022 Business Updates Conference Call. At this time all participants are placed on a listen-only mode and the floor will be open for questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mr. David Waldman, Investor Relations. Sir, the floor is yours.

Good morning, and thank you for joining LM Funding America's third quarter 2022 conference call. On the call with us today are Bruce Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, and Richard Russell Chief Financial Officer of LM Funding. This morning the company announced its operating results for the quarter-ended September 30 2022 and its financial condition as of that date. The press release is posted on the company's website lmfunding.com. In addition, the company has filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which can also be accessed on the company's website as well as the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. If you have any questions after the call, or would like any additional information about the company, please contact Crescendo Communications at 212-671-1020. Before management reviews the company's operating results for the quarter-ended September 30 2022 and the company's financial condition at September 30, 2022 we'd like to remind everyone this conference call may contain forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this conference call, including statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, strategy and plans and our expectations for future operations are forward-looking statements These forward-looking statements are based largely on the company's current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, strategy, short term and long term business operations and objectives and financial needs. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions, as described in the company's Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2022. Because of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this conference call may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance or achievements. In addition, neither the company nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any forward-looking statement. The company disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the company are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements, as well as others made in this conference call. You should evaluate all forward-looking statements made by the company in the context of these risks and uncertainties. With that. I'll now turn the call over to Bruce Rogers. Please go ahead, Bruce.

Thank you, David. Good morning, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. I'd like to begin by saying thank you to all of our investors for your continued support and confidence in the LM Funding story. I'm pleased to report that in third quarter, our Bitcoin mining strategy has taken another step forward, as we've been actively mining Bitcoin in September 2022 and have electrified 1,200 of our machines as of November 15, 2020. The 1,200 machines provide us with a capacity of 120 petahash. We currently believe that by year's end 2022 we will have approximately 2,700 machines electrified and mining Bitcoin and that our capacity will increase to approximately 270 Petahash. When we last updated you at the end of the second quarter, we had anticipated that we would have more than 5,000 miners operational by the fourth quarter of 2022. However, like many others in the industry, we are experiencing issues with one of our third party hosting companies Compute North, with whom we had placed nearly 2,700 of our mining machines during the second quarter of 2020. These machines are currently sitting there dormant. We are attempting to regain control these machines and look for alternative solutions to host these miners. In the third quarter we opportunistically took advantage of favorable pricing on mining machines and purchased an additional 400s S19J Pros miners and 200 S19XP miners, which we expect to come online between now and March 31, 2023. We will continue to look for and take advantage of similar opportunities to purchase additional miners when pricing is favorable in order to maximize long term shareholder value. We would expect that once all of the 5,646 miners that we currently own are electrified and mining, they would provide us with a capacity of approximately 570…

Thanks, Bruce, and good morning everyone. Revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022 totaled $180,000 compared to $224,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 which reflects our shift in focus to Bitcoin mining. Our revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022 included 42,000 digital mining revenues as we mined our first bitcoins during the period. However, because our mining activities didn't commenced till late in the quarter, our mining revenues don't have meaningful impact on the quarter's results of operations, Operating expenses totaled $5.5 million for three months ended September 30 2022, compared to $2.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021. The $3.1 million increase is primarily attributed to a $3.6 million increase in noncash stock compensation, as well as increases in professional fees and other operating expenses as compared to the third quarter of 2021. For three months ended September 30, 2022 the net loss attributed to LMF shareholders was $6.6 million, compared to $5.5 million for three months ended September 30, 2021. Net income in the third quarter of 2020 included an unrealized loss on investment equity securities. The $194,000 relates to company's interest in LMF Acquisition Opportunities. Turning to our balance sheet, as Bruce mentioned earlier, we ended the quarter with $10.2 million cash and $15.5 million in working capital which we believe provides sufficient liquidity to execute our current Bitcoin mining strategy. In addition, we have no long term debt and ended the quarter with stockholder's equity of $62.2 million, or $4.75 per share. Finally, net cash used by operations was $1.7 million through the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to net cash provided by operations of $5.3 million through the nine months ended September 30, 2021. This change in cash provided by operating activities was primarily the result of a non-recurring, $14 million realized gains on securities from the BORQS note transaction through the nine month period ended September 30, 2021. That completes our prepared remarks. I would now like to open the call for questions. Operator, could you please assist with that?

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, the floor is now open for questions. [Operator Instructions]. Thank you. Our first question is coming from Matthew Galinko with Maxim Group. Please go ahead.

Hi, thank you for taking my question, and congrats on starting mining Bitcoin. Can we start with -- you seem confident that you'll get the remaining miners up and running by the end of the year, can you can you go a little bit further into how much of that is in your control? And what can you do to make that happen?

Interesting question, Matt. Yeah, what's in control -- in our control? In our control are the miners that we have purchased and sent to Core and then the ones we still have coming in on delivery schedules. What's not in our control presently are the miners at Compute North. And we have -- we followed several different approaches to addressing that and we do not have resolution to that. So we're not projecting when the miners at Compute North will come online until we have established some level of control where I can meaningfully tell you what that's going to be.

Got it. Okay, that makes sense. Outside of, I guess, your current equipment that's mining, did that constitute everything you've sent to Core?

You mean, as of -- we had about 800 some odd machines at the end of September. The other machines we've put in place through today is I think we said 1,200.

The answers is -- the number is a hard number that we gave you that has electricity running through them. We have pallets of machines in various trucks, I can't even name how many places right now but the number we gave you is the firm electrified number.

Yes.

Okay, thanks. So as you have additional machines coming in and we know the public challenges, Compute North and Core are facing. What are your alternatives to finding hosting facilities and it looks like a more fragmented deployment going forward? And I guess talk a little bit about how you manage the challenge of going to more disparate facility.

You're exactly right. It's very fragmented, 200 here, 300 there, different facilities. Being half full on that, it gives us more geographic dispersity, more power differentiation. There's a lot of benefits to being spread all out. It's a lot of tracking and a lot of finding -- hunting and finding places. The meltdown in Defi has touched all of the Bitcoin world as well. And there's racks that are in various stages of bankruptcy liquidation coming available, machines coming available. And you trade machines that are on racks for machines in boxes now. It's a very dynamic operating environment for the guy's manning the phones.

Thanks. Okay, last question before I jump back in the queue. Given that you do have a cash position, and in your words, a lot of distressed, I guess stuff out there, how much cash do you need to operate and mine at this point? And how do you think about your capital structure as you see inexpensive or distressed assets kind of in your crypto wheelhouse as we move into 2023?

The prices are dropping. So the opportunities are there to move. It's just where are you going to find the bottom of the market. We because of the Compute North situation, we need to protect our cash because we do not have those machines electrified. Once they're electrified, depends on the price of Bitcoin, obviously, but at current prices, we should be throwing off cash and able to then look at building cash for sure to deploy. And then how much of the $10 million and $15 million numbers we talked about that we want to deploy it. It's a -- I think that's pretty much the summation what I wanted to say.

All right, thank you. I'll jump back in.

Thank you. As there are no further questions in the queue, I will hand it back to management for any closing statements they may have.

Sure. I'd like to thank everyone for participating on our third quarter 2022 conference call. The future is extremely bright here in Tampa and we're excited to have taken the next step on our Bitcoin mining strategy. And we have miners actively mining Bitcoin as of November 15, 2022. We've mined our first Bitcoins. We look forward to the momentum continuing as we electrify additional mining machines in the quarters to come. We appreciate the ongoing support of our shareholders and look forward to updating you on our progress as developments unfold. Thank you.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and this does conclude today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day. And we thank you for your participation.