Bitcoin miners should pay costs in depreciating currency — Ledn exec

By: the crypto news wire|2025/05/04 04:15:01
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Taking advantage of the increasingly divergent fundamentals of Bitcoin and fiat currency could be a way out for struggling miners. Bitcoin ( BTC ) mining firms should hold their mined Bitcoin and use it as collateral for fiat-denominated loans to pay operating expenses instead of selling BTC and losing the upside of an asset that miners expect to surge in price, according to John Glover, chief investment officer at Bitcoin lending firm Ledn. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Glover said that holding onto the BTC carries several benefits including, price appreciation, tax deferment, and the potential to make extra revenue by lending out BTC held in corporate treasuries . The executive added: This debt-based approach is similar to companies like Strategy, which issue corporate debt and equity to finance Bitcoin acquisition and profit from the diverging fundamentals of BTC and the fiat currencies the corporate capital raises are denominated in. Read more

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