Commitments and Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies

Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies

Bitcoin Production Equipment and Operations

On March 16, 2023 the Company entered into a partnership agreement (the “Partnership Agreement”) and a property lease agreement (the “Lease Agreement”, and together with the Partnership Agreement, collectively, the “Agreement”) with another cryptocurrency mining company (“Tenant”). Pursuant to the Lease Agreement, the Company agreed to lease to Tenant portions of the Company’s six acre mining facility in Lafayette, GA in increments of up to 10 spaces that are 40 feet in length and eight feet in height each (“Spaces”), together with related utilities access including electricity of up to one megawatt (“MW”) per Space, for deploying mining equipment, in exchange for rental payments of $5 per Space per month (provided the Spaces are powered) and payment of the electricity costs and deposit requirements arising from the Spaces. In connection with the Lease Agreement, Tenant agreed to make an initial deposit of $229 for the initial electricity deployment for five MW.

Pursuant to the Partnership Agreement, the Company agreed to issue Tenant 500,000 shares its common stock per month for each rented Space (the “Monthly Issuances”), and to also issue an additional number of shares of common stock annually equal to 100% of the Monthly Issuances for the applicable year (the “Annual Issuances,” and together with the Monthly Issuances, collectively, the “Issuances”). Further, pursuant to the Partnership Agreement, the Company provided Tenant with the option (the “Option”) to lend MGT up to $1 million evidenced by a convertible promissory note that is convertible into 25% of the Company’s outstanding common stock, assuming all $1 million is lent, on a pro-forma, post-issuance basis (the “Note”), together with an accompanying warrant to purchase 60% of the shares of common stock underlying the Note (the “Warrant”). The terms of the Note and Warrant would be substantially similar to the September 2022 Note and accompanying warrants that were issued by the Company along with that note. If the Option is exercised, the parties may elect to substitute the $1 million purchase price, in whole or in part, with equipment and infrastructure improvements to enable the Company to have access to up to an additional 10 MWs of electricity to the facility’s currently available electrical power capacity. The Company’s facility currently has electrical capacity of up to 10 MW. The Agreement has a term of 24 months.

The Company considered the terms of the Option under ASC 815 and concluded that the Option is a non-option embedded derivative with no initial fair value and would not require bifurcation from the host contract. ASC 606 states that consideration payable to a customer should be recorded as a direct reduction to the transaction price. Therefore, the Company determined the transaction should be accounted for on a net basis, and the fair value of the equity should be recorded as a direct deduction from rental revenue. The Company determined that the share issuances would be treated as lease incentives and ASC 842-10-30-5 requires lease incentives to be recorded as a reduction of fixed payments when determining lease payments. The Company concluded that the equity portion of the agreement should be recorded at fair value on the grant date. Upon recording the equity at fair value at the time of issuance and taking into consideration that revenue should be reduced by the fair value of equity, the Company determined that the fair value of the equity exceeds the total cash to be received based on the fair value of the contract at the date of issuance, resulting in a contract loss at inception.

MGT CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, INC.

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Dollars in thousands, except share and per–share amounts)

Total lease payments to be received			$	920,000
Total shares		FMV on grant date
184,000,000	x	0.006		1,104,000
Loss at Inception			$	(184,000	)

The Company applied the guidance under ASU 2021-05 and determined that it would be appropriate to account for the entire loss at commencement and recognize that loss as a future equity commitment. The loss is based on the difference between the amount of cash to be received under the contract and the fair value of the stock to be issued under the contract. At lease inception, the Company recorded a lease incentive loss of $184 and recorded an operating lease liability in the corresponding amount. The lease liability will be reduced over the lease term period in conjunction with the issuance of the shares. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company received $345, issued 34 million shares of common stock and reduced the lease liability by $68.

Legal proceedings

In September 2018, the SEC commenced a legal action, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York naming the CEO of the Company as a defendant. In September 2023, the Court denied the CEO’s motion for summary judgment and granted the SEC’s motion for summary judgment partially.

On February 23, 2024, the SEC filed a notice of motion seeking certain actions including a final judgment granting the SEC the following: (i) approximately $1.1 million in civil penalties, (ii) a bar prohibiting the CEO from serving as an officer or director of a public company, and (iii) injunctions against future violations of the federal securities laws for which the CEO was found liable by the Court.

Electricity Contract

MGT’s prior electricity agreement with the City of LaFayette expired on September 30, 2021. The Company and City of LaFayette are currently operating on a month-to-month basis without a contract.