Bitcoin Mining Capital Markets, How the Elections Benefit BTC with Mostafa Al-Mashita

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.  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 Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!  👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices