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Friday, June 27, 2025

Should I Lend Crypto? Bitcoin Meltdown (BTC) Hits Investor Yield - Bloomberg

Times are tough in the risky world of crypto lending.
Before the market began to freeze over, Craig Bowman estimates he was making the equivalent of 25,000% annually by lending out his crypto holdings. Now, he says, his returns have collapsed – yet he’s pressing on anyway.
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While most investors who bet on crypto own Bitcoin, Ether or ETFs, Bowman is part of a vast network around the world that have used their crypto assets to earn outsized interest. It’s difficult to determine exactly how much money is involved, but as recently as this year - before the market's steep decline -- it ran into the hundreds of billions.
There are various ways to do it, including yield farming and staking, which involves using coins to help process orders on a blockchain.
These practices were wildly popular until the recent selloff. Of particular...



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