The9 Limited, a Shanghai-based online game operator unveiled its intentions to purchase 2,000 bitcoin (BTC) miners. The company believes, that new miners will provide a total hash rate of approximately 100 PH/s or 0.1 exahash (EH/s) of processing power. As per the announcement, The9 entered into a legally binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with an “unrelated bitcoin mining machine owner.”