Bitcoin miners see mixed successes in tackling debt-fueled overexpansion crisis

According to a caller report by Hash Rate Index, publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) miners took connected much than $4 cardinal worthy of indebtedness during the run-up to the crypto bull market. Mesmerized by rising prices, manufacture rushed manus implicit fist to acquisition Bitcoin application-specific integrated circuits miners connected casual credit. 

However, successful today's discourse of Bitcoin terms collapse, skyrocketing energy prices, little marketplace prices for mining rigs, and record-level mining difficulty, 2022 became an highly hard twelvemonth for assemblage players. That said, immoderate are holding connected amended than others.

Top 10 publicly-traded Bitcoin miners by liabilities | Source: Hashrate Index

On Jan 3, Bitfarms announced that the institution sold 1,755 BTC during Dec. 2022 for full proceeds of $29.9 million. The steadfast past utilized this magnitude to wage down $16.5 cardinal successful its BTC-backed facility, on with $2.0 cardinal successful equipment-related indebtedness. 

Bitfarms besides managed to renegotiate miner purchasing agreements starring to extinguishing $45.4 cardinal without punishment portion establishing a $22.4 cardinal recognition for pre-paid pre-paid deposits to beryllium applied against aboriginal acquisition agreements. The institution mined 5,167 BTC ($86.1 cardinal astatine the clip of publication) for each of 2022 and had an outstanding indebtedness equilibrium of $47.0 cardinal astatine the year's end.

The aforesaid day, Stronghold Digital Mining announced that it reached an speech statement to person $17.9 cardinal of its indebtedness into preferred banal bearing a look worth of $23.1 million. The preferred banal would carnivore nary involvement nor dividends, and would, successful turn, beryllium convertible into communal banal (with negligible par value) astatine a conversion terms of $0.40 per share, which is adjacent the stock's marketplace worth of $0.44 astatine the clip of publication. 

Others were not arsenic fortunate. Cointelegraph antecedently reported connected Dec 21 that Greenidge signed a $74 cardinal indebtedness restructuring statement with creditor NYDIG. The deal, if executed, would supply recognition alleviation astatine the outgo of restructuring the institution from an autarkic Bitcoin miner into a hosting tract for NYDIG's Bitcoin mining rigs. Similarly, Core Scientific, 1 of the largest players successful the sector, managed to secure a $37.4 cardinal indebtedness but nevertheless is undergoing bankruptcy. 

Not each Bitcoin miners embarked connected credit-fueled enlargement strategies. On Jan 3., Digihost announced that it accrued BTC accumulation by 60% twelvemonth implicit year. The institution said it has nary indebtedness different than a vendor-take-back owe connected its Alabama installation successful the magnitude of $934,500. Cointelegraph besides antecedently reported connected Dec 21 that German Bitcoin miner Northern Data said the institution had nary fiscal indebtedness portion expecting $204 cardinal successful gross for 2022.