Crypto mining firm Rhodium Encore LLC has been granted permission by a court to undertake a peculiar financing plan in the course of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On Friday, the company was approved to select between receiving $30 million in US dollars or 500 Bitcoin from Galaxy Digital, a blockchain company owned by Mike Novogratz.
The strange thing about this deal is the ability to take a loan in Bitcoin, which is not very common in bankruptcy funding strategies. The loan that is to be taken from the US dollar has a high interest rate.
According to Bloomberg, the dollar loan interest rate is 14.5% per annum, while the Bitcoin loan interest rate is slightly lower at 9.5%. Rhodium can redeem the Bitcoin loan in US dollars prior to the due date at a rate of “reasonable published market spot prices” with the lender’s consent.
Despite the fact that several crypto firms have failed in the recent past, funding through cryptocurrency is not very popular even in Chapter 11. This is because the price of Bitcoin is highly volatile, and this makes it difficult to estimate the total amount of loan repayments, thus increasing the level of risk in the financing.
Rhodium Encore, which owns and operates Bitcoin mining facilities in Texas, filed for bankruptcy in August due to financial difficulties with its landlord and power supplier, Whinstone US, Inc., as stated by David Dunn, Rhodium’s co-chief restructuring officer.
This move underscores the shift in bankruptcy financing in the crypto space, and how traditional financial paradigms are being challenged by new approaches.
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