HIVE Blockchain Grants Stock Options

VANCOUVER, Sept. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (TSX.V:HIVE) (OTC:HVBTF) (the "Company" or "HIVE") announces that it has granted an aggregate of 4,000,000 stock options under the Company's stock option plan to directors, officers, employees, and consultants of the Company with an exercise price of C$0.62 per stock option, exercisable for a period of ten years from the date of grant, vesting over periods of up to two years. The stock option grant is subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

About HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.

HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. is a growth oriented, TSX.V-listed company building a bridge from the blockchain sector to traditional capital markets. HIVE is strategically partnered with Genesis Mining Ltd. to build the next generation of blockchain infrastructure. HIVE owns state-of-the-art GPU-based digital currency mining facilities in Iceland and Sweden, which produce newly minted digital currencies like Ethereum continuously, and provides shareholders with exposure to the operating margins of digital currency mining as well as a growing portfolio of crypto-coins.

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On Behalf Of HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.

"Frank Holmes"

Interim Executive Chairman and Director

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SOURCE HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.

Frank Holmes, Tel: [phone]