{"id":44429,"date":"2023-01-25T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T22:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=44429"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T22:08:32","slug":"bitcoin-miner-core-scientific-raised-500m-from-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/bitcoin-miner-core-scientific-raised-500m-from-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin miner Core Scientific raised $500M from investors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Core Scientific got DIP loans totaling more than $50 million from these institutional investors to maintain operations throughout the bankruptcy process.<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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According to court documents, BlackRock and Apollo Capital Management were among the creditors who provided Core Scientific, a defunct crypto miner, with a $500 million loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell last year, Core Scientific, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, struggled to repay its obligations.In August 2021, BlackRock acquired $38.2 million in convertible notes from Core Scientific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrarily, according to the documents, Apollo bought $22.5 million worth of convertible notes in April 2021 and another $10.9 million in August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibex Investors, which acquired convertible notes for $97.9 million from Core Scientific in April 2021, was the biggest creditor. In the same month, the miner raised $61.7 million and $37.6 million from ICG Advisors and Kensico Capital Management, respectively, using convertible notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The miner received additional payments from Kensico, Marsico, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> totaling $43.6 million in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same month, the miner sold convertible shares to Toroso Investments, Jordan Park Group, and Sabby Volatility Warrant Master Fund for amounts of $28.9 million, $31.1 million, and $2.7 million, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the documents, the defunct miner additionally raised $15.29 million with convertible notes from Corbin Capital Partners. Many of these creditors also provided Core Scientific with debtor-in-possession<\/a> (DIP) loans, allowing the miner to keep functioning despite filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defunct miner received DIP loans from Ibex, BlackRock, and Apollo totaling $10.1 million, $17 million, and $6.1 million, respectively. According to the documents, MMLIC, Sabby, Jordan, and Corbin collectively provided another $24 million in DIP loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Core Scientific got DIP loans totaling more than $50 million from these institutional investors to maintain operations throughout the bankruptcy process. According to court documents, BlackRock and Apollo Capital Management were among the creditors who provided Core Scientific, a defunct crypto miner, with a $500 million loan. When the price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":44426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/croc_1674681837795.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}