Bitcoin Miner Shares Surge Amidst Banking Meltdown

Cipher Mining (CIFR), Hut 8 (HUT) and Stronghold Digital (SDIG) are among the many crypto miners seeing the most important positive factors in Monday buying and selling after the federal government late Sunday moved to guard all depositors at collapsed lenders Silicon Valley Financial institution (SVB) and Signature Financial institution.

The miners are shifting in keeping with bitcoin (BTC), which is increased by 17% over the previous 24 hours to $24,100.

“I’m truly shocked [the miners] didn’t get pumped extra,” mentioned Wolfie Zhao, head of analysis at TheMinerMag. “Many even didn’t surge greater than bitcoin.”

The extent of the mining sector’s publicity to crypto-friendly Signature Financial institution is unclear. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) on Monday mentioned it nonetheless had entry to $142 million in deposits the now shuttered lender. CleanSpark (CLSK), Bitfarms (BITF) and Argo Blockchain (ARBK) mentioned on Monday they don’t have any publicity to both Signature or the opposite collapsed banks, Silvergate and SVB.

An Argo subsidiary, nonetheless, does maintain working funds in Signature deposits, the agency mentioned.

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