Bitcoin miner Greenidge signs $74M debt restructuring agreement with NYDIG
In response to a Dec. 20 submitting with the US Securities and Alternate Fee, Bitcoin (BTC) miner Greenidge has reached an settlement with its creditor, fintech agency NYDIG, to restructure roughly $74 million value of debt. The deal, within the type of a non-binding time period sheet, would end in a significant change to Greenidge’s present enterprise technique, basically reworking Greenidge from self-mining to internet hosting NYDIG’s mining rigs.
Underneath the settlement, NYDIG would buy miners with roughly 2.8 exahashes per second (EH/s) of mining capability to be hosted by Greenidge, which might facilitate NYDIG’s rights to a mining web site inside three months following the completion of debt restructuring and internet hosting agreements. In trade for consideration amounting to the bought miners and switch of mining infrastructure and credit to NYDIG, the agency would comply with a debt discount of $57 million to $68 million for Greenidge.
Moreover, Greenidge would collateralize a large portion of its unencumbered belongings to safe the remaining stability of the NYDIG mortgage. The agency would retain possession of miners with a capability of 1.2 EH/s. As of Oct. 31, 2022, Greenidge had roughly 2.5 EH/s of mining capability from roughly 24,500 miners in service.
Nevertheless, the corporate additionally wrote that “there stays uncertainty concerning Greenidge’s monetary situation and substantial doubt about its means to proceed as a going concern.” Final month, Greenidge used roughly $8 million of its money throughout operations, of which $5.5 million went to principal and curiosity funds. As of Nov. 30, 2022, the corporate’s money stability amounted to roughly $22 million. Greenidge additionally warned that “NYDIG and Greenidge will endeavor to enter into definitive documentation reflecting the phrases described on this launch, however there will be no assurances made that such phrases is not going to change materially nor can there be any assurances made that the transactions mentioned on this launch can be consummated.”
In September 2021, Cointelegraph reported that Greenidge accomplished a merger with Assist.com, a supplier of buyer and technical assist options, to turn into a publicly listed mining agency on the Nasdaq. Since then, shares have plunged over 99%, partly as a result of a mix of the continuing crypto winter, increased electrical energy costs, increased mining issue and decrease market costs for Bitcoin mining rigs.
