Here is the updated agreement (Section 3.K). ✅ We work with partners to facilitate the loan ✅ Your collateral is securely held in segregated wallets with us and partners ✅ Your collateral is NEVER rehypothecated, on-lent, or used in any other way Our goal is to offer the best possible terms and experience for Bitcoiners. We will continue to iterate with you all based on feedback. Next up, we plan to provide proof-of-reserves based lending. We work for you, #Bitcoin. Thanks for the feedback. We want to be the most customer focused company in the world. Built by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners. image View quoted note →

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Anchorite 6 months ago
"not FURTHER re-hypothecated" "subject to the terms in place with that provider" Sounds like BS?
Sounds like legal two step to appease your partners homie. "Re-Pledge" or "Further rehypothecate" insinuates that it made at least one jump from the initial pledge with the lendee. Guessing the issue is your partners need to make at least one jump AKA one rehypothecation in order to get more cheddar from the man or other larger institutions? In short, larger funds/institutions get a better buy rate from the man but they typically gotta put up gubment accepted collateral (treasuries), which lowers the risk profile of these loans and makes em pencil (buy low sell high). Or they're playing Saylor's game. Make sense. Just make it explicit, so folks dont have to worry who and where and according to what ratio it's get re-pledged/rehypothecated. Proof of reserves solves this as well.
It's also not uncommon for contracts to include provisions that grant powers to lenders where borrowers have little negotiating power to modify the terms of the agreement that the lender has no intention of utilizing but which lawyers will get for their clients anyway because they can. It's ordinary. View quoted note →
Unfortunately @jack mallers I used @npub1ex7m...vyt9 to buy gift vouchers via the strike app and had issues with the voucher. Customer support was absolutely zero and I lost $59 because of this. This poor customer experience means I’ll not be using strike for loans or anything more than a lightning wallet.
Too many have BlockFi and Celsius nightmares to “trust” without 100% verifiable proof. Would a smart contract or HTLC be a solution to those concerned with collateral risk?
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Vdub 6 months ago
Can a customer roll a loan over at maturity and just pay the interest?
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BDC 6 months ago
Jack, you wouldn’t take a ‘trust me bro’ loan right? Neither should we. Need hard always verifiable proof or pass