In the 2021 and 2022 Bitcoin bull market, ASIC-backed loans – a form of debt secured by bitcoin mining computers – were all the rage for the U.S.’s burgeoning bitcoin mining sector. But when bitcoin prices took a turn for the worse, and drug bitcoin mining revenue down with it, many of these loans soured, with debtors defaulting and creditors seizing and running ASICs to pay back the loans. Fast forward to 2025, and now, Coinbase’s (NASDAQ: COIN) independent subsidiary Coinbase Asset Management is reimag ...