Crypto lenders morph into miners
Crypto lenders have repossessed so many Bitcoin mining rigs they’re resorting to plugging them in and extracting tokens themselves.
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Crypto lenders have repossessed so many Bitcoin mining rigs they’re resorting to plugging them in and extracting tokens themselves.
'One way for the lenders to prevent further losses from the defaulted loans is to keep the collateralised machines running and generate some income.'
Lenders are getting creative as to what to do with the mining machines they accepted as collateral for the some $4 billion in rig-backed loans they underwrote when the rally in bitcoin seemed unstoppable.
At a seasonally-adjusted and annualized (SAAR) $3.284 TN pace, Non-Financial Debt (NFD) growth slowed from Q2’s SAAR $4.318 TN and Q1’s SAAR $5.438 TN.
Beleaguered crypto lenders are being dealt another blow from bitcoin miners as they weather the aftermath of the FTX collapse.