Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter!
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Doug Wilson, Head of Credit Investments at Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), joins us to talk about their new hashrate backed loans and how they differ from traditional loans for Bitcoin miners. Doug breaks down CBAM’s flexible collateral package, which allows miners to post their facilities and bitcoin as collateral. We also discuss the broader capital markets for crypto, the impact of institutionalization and ETFs, the importance of regulatory and tax clarity, and the untapped potential of the stablecoin economy to drive efficiency in payments and finance.
Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com
**Notes:**
* LTV typically 50-70% for Bitcoin loans
* Up to 50% hash rate collateral
* Coinbase Asset Management registered Q1 2023
* Coinbase is a wholly owned subsidiary
* Bitcoin mining is a commodity industry with commodity margins
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:37 What does CBAM do?
00:03:26 Hashrate Loans
00:06:25 Hashrate definition
00:08:25 Bitcoin industry stigma
00:10:25 Data centers as collateral?
00:12:44 Current & future state of lending
00:14:44 Rates & specifics
00:18:49 Target clients
00:20:08 Retail loans
00:22:07 DeFi?
00:24:30 Competition from TradFi
00:25:56 Stablecoins
00:28:03 Future of stablecoins?
00:28:41 Regulations
00:31:16 Future of capital markets products?
00:32:49 Taxes
