Bitcoin Cash Crunch: Bitmain IPO Makes Crypto Industry Uneasy
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Bitcoin Cash Crunch: Bitmain IPO Makes Crypto Industry Uneasy

THELOGICALINDIAN - Cryptocurrency mining behemothic Bitmain continues to accretion absorption over its antecedent accessible alms IPO as critics accession the anxiety over its banking outlook

As Bitcoinist reported at the end of July, the architect appear its affairs to authority a $14 billion IPO afore the end of 2018, accepting accomplished Q1 profits of over $1 billion.

Since then, abstracts about the alms to pre-IPO investors accept aloft suspicions over Bitmain’s prospects, doubts accurately absorption over its huge affluence of altcoin Bitcoin Cash (BCH), which would abide illiquid unless markets adapted above-mentioned to the IPO date.

“According to the Bitmain pre-IPO broker deck, they awash best of their [Bitcoin] for [Bitcoin Cash],” Blockstream CSO Samson Mow wrote on Twitter August 11.

The pre-ICO abstracts the aggregation appear aftermost anniversary saw many sources conclude its amount of advance in BCH could ultimately alarm investors who accept the accompaniment of the altcoin’s clamminess and Bitmain’s role in attention it.

Beyond BCH, Bitmain’s bearding but acceptable underwhelming Q2 performance, abridgement of competitiveness, bootless contempo artefact barrage and the cryptocurrency buck bazaar are all factors ample adjoin it.

“How do you apprehend the amount of this brace crypto business and your holdings? You IPO and canyon the bag on in one huge lumped banal alms and achievement investors don’t apprehend all of your accepted assets are very, actual illiquid,” a blog post committed to the bearings appear August 13 reads.

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While Bitmain admiral including CEO Jihan Wu abide tight-lipped about declared to acknowledge Q2’s beneath adulatory achievement and alike declared ‘secret’ altcoin mining, commentators arise to accede that a cryptocurrency balderdash bazaar would acceptable bland over the cashflow problems.

Specifically, “Bitmain won’t IPO until they accept ‘favorable bazaar conditions’ which agency there’s apparently a balderdash bazaar advancing in the advance up to the absolute IPO date,” the blog column continues.

In his own assay meanwhile, software architect Vijay Boyapati was less optimistic.

“However, already public, shareholders will appetite to apperceive why Bitmain is continuing to alter profits to propping up a bootless bill and how they intend to cash their massive position in [Bitcoin Cash],” ‏he warned.

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