THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining Capital Markets, How the Elections Benefit BTC with Mostafa Al-Mashita
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Not so long ago, Bitcoin miners had difficulty accessing debt – they still do, but miner capital markets have improved significantly. Secure Digital Markets Co-founder and Direct of Sales and Trading Mostafa Al-Mashita joins us on this Mining Pod to explain how these markets have changed and what it will take for them to improve further. He also gives his take on what a second Trump presidency means for Bitcoin and the market more broadly.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:17 Secured Digital Markets
03:20 Financial products for miners
07:11 Miner auto-liquidating
11:10 Miners using derivatives
14:04 Miner OTC desks?
17:30 Lending
20:45 Will ASIC backed loans come back?
23:46 Seizing ASICs to pay back debt
25:49 Fed funds rate changes
28:52 Has the ETF changed miner capital markets?
32:09 ETF effects
34:07 Public vs private capital access
38:36 Is capital access for private miners getting easier?
43:34 US presidential election
44:35 Chokepoint 2.0
49:03 Any personal effects of Chokepoint 2.0
52:16 Macro effect of election
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, y'all? Welcome back to the mining pod. Today, we've got an awesome show lined up with Mustafa al-Mashita, the co-founder and director of sales and trading at secure digital markets. |
| 0:12.6 | Y'all probably have not heard of secure digital markets before if you're just a passive investor in Bitcoin mining stocks or a passive enjoyer of Bitcoin mining news. But they're in the |
| 0:22.4 | background of a lot of financing and capital markets movements for a lot of the major |
| 0:26.8 | names within the North American Bitcoin mining sphere. So really looking forward to this conversation |
| 0:32.2 | with Mustafa, all of these topics with regards to capital markets, financing options for miners. |
| 0:39.6 | It's one of the under-explore topics when we look at the lifeblood of this industry, |
| 0:44.1 | but it is absolutely crucial to make sure that these miners can continue to expand and invest in their operations. |
| 0:49.9 | Before we get Mustafa on the stage, a quick board from our sponsors. |
| 0:53.3 | Are you retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies? |
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| 1:08.1 | Thanks for listening to The Mining Pod. |
| 1:10.2 | Want more? |
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| 1:15.1 | podcast for another weekly show on Bitcoin stocks. |
| 1:18.3 | And check out our newsletter at miningpod.blokspace.media today. |
| 1:23.0 | And we are back and I am thrilled to invite Mustafa onto the stage so we can chop it up. |
| 1:28.7 | Mustafa, how are you doing, man? |
| 1:30.7 | I'm doing well. I'm doing well. It's Monday. We have an exciting week ahead of us. |
| 1:36.6 | And yeah, I'm excited to be on the show. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, absolutely. Man, exciting is definitely euphemistic way to put it. You're calling in from Canada, but still, you know, I think the entire world, for better or worse, has their eyes on the U.S. elections coming up. |
| 1:50.5 | We're recording this on the Monday before the elections tomorrow. |
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