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legendary
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August 29, 2021, 03:24:57 PM
#15
Company valuation is $10M based on a conservative revenue multiplier, so 2% of that is $200k.
If you want to sell private company shares on same day though, you may have to give 90% fire sale discount, so value could be $20k.

how exactly the value of the company is determined? Can you provide some documents about that?
whether it is possible to trade the company's shares on a stock exchange or as pink sheets?
Where potential lenders can immediately sell these shares in case loan default?
newbie
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August 29, 2021, 12:30:12 PM
#14
@OP: As I said earlier (and you try to present it like it's the worse...), the only real, fast, and reliable collateral is crypto. At least here, the place that you came to ask for a loan. If you have, then you will get a loan here without any further discussion. If not and without any solid proof of your sayings, then your chances are below 0.5%. So simple.

Thanks for the feedback. I think we're both correct - it depends on area of expertise, for someone who is experienced in crypto, crypto will be safer collateral, and for someone who is experienced with investing in securities and doing due diligence on companies (accredited investor), shares are the safer collateral.

I'm new to crypto loans. Trying to understand why one would take a crypto loan with different crypto as collateral when they could sell the crypto or trade it with leverage? Tax reasons? Expecting collateral to increase in value more than the loan interest? Any other reason I'm missing?

legendary
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August 29, 2021, 10:24:40 AM
#13
@OP: As I said earlier (and you try to present it like it's the worse...), the only real, fast, and reliable collateral is crypto. At least here, the place that you came to ask for a loan. If you have, then you will get a loan here without any further discussion. If not and without any solid proof of your sayings, then your chances are below 0.5%. So simple.
copper member
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August 29, 2021, 09:33:48 AM
#12
I don't think there are any lenders on this forum with the required experience to be able to evaluate your collateral, and perfect a security lien on your shares.

The terms of any loan secured by shares in a startup are not going to be very attractive to the borrower due to the risky nature of startups. If you only need ~$5k for 3 months, you will likely find better terms using a credit card or a signature loan. 
newbie
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August 29, 2021, 07:25:56 AM
#11
Future growth prospects is not valid collateral.

How can the seller even dispose of the asset if you do default on your loan? I'm supposing that this particular share is not traded on any major exchanges nor any OTC markets, which means that the only way to liquidate this is for the seller to scour potential buyers. The 90% discount for fire-sale is still contingent on the company and I doubt there is any legal obligation for them to buyback shares.

If you have listed shares then I'm sure lots of people can help you.

You are correct on all accounts. In worst case scenario, if company would not be using rtfr to buy back shares, then either scouring for potential buyers would be required, or holding for potential dividends/acquisition/listing. We are listing on the market for the same liquidity reason. After being listed it wouldn't make sense to use high interest loans.

I haven't read of any crypto focused vc's offering companies loans (convertible debt), only cash for equity investments. Seems like a huge market opportunity with higher potential reward than a regular vc investment.
hero member
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August 28, 2021, 07:49:48 PM
#10
Future growth prospects is not valid collateral.

How can the seller even dispose of the asset if you do default on your loan? I'm supposing that this particular share is not traded on any major exchanges nor any OTC markets, which means that the only way to liquidate this is for the seller to scour potential buyers. The 90% discount for fire-sale is still contingent on the company and I doubt there is any legal obligation for them to buyback shares.

If you have listed shares then I'm sure lots of people can help you.
newbie
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August 28, 2021, 07:15:29 AM
#9
why give as collateral 200K USD for just .... 5K USD? I am missing something or it's sound a bit weird ?

He said 2% of the $200K equity will be collateral (or about $4K).

Company valuation is $10M based on a conservative revenue multiplier, so 2% of that is $200k.
If you want to sell private company shares on same day though, you may have to give 90% fire sale discount, so value could be $20k.
newbie
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August 28, 2021, 06:59:39 AM
#8
It's a new account, my first post, and it's not the typical collateral of altcoins, so I wanted to put down plenty of collateral.

It's not the typical collateral but it's not valid collateral either.
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Why isn't this a valid collateral? I was surprised bitcoin loans for equity as collateral is not a huge market and I'm here to learn why and get practical experience from the borrowers perspective.


It's purely for business - the company is in the process of listing some shares on a private/public market, if I pay $5k using loan with my personal shares as collateral instead of company paying it using its profits, then company's profit is $5k more and at a conservative 10x profit multiple the valuation is $50k more, so I'm paying $1.5k interest for at least $50k higher valuation on the market.

Private with Public has a big difference. So you want to buy more shares of the company with others money and use them as collateral, in order to look like someone else buying them? And how do you know that will be a conservative 10x profit? If not, you will not pay interest? I'm a bit confused...Undecided

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We're listing on a market for startups (e.g. portals that provide early liquidity for startup employees before IPO), the market offers these shares initially to a list of private investors and then these private investors will be able to buy/sell these shares on that public market to all users. The $5k is a tiny listing fee this market charges, I thought it would be a fun and profitable experience to use a bitcoin loan, actual trading will be in the range of millions, we'll probably put 10% of company shares for sale and will be only selling shares, not buying. I can see profit to valuation ratios of all other companies listed on that market, companies doing similar amounts of revenue as us, are actually listed at $60-70M valuations, not the conservative $10M I used here. I don't understand the "will not pay interest" question.

Good point about liquidity, depending on valuation methodology bitcoin price would have to increase 3x-30x in valuation in 3 months for the bitcoin re-payment value in $ to match the market value of the collateral and both I and the company have plenty of assets in our war chests to re-pay earlier if such black swan event starts to happen.

If you and the company have plenty of assets, then buy these shares without taking a loan based on cryptocurrency (anonymous, unreversible). It's more than weird to come here and ask for a loan of ~$6k when the company (and you) are worth $10m and is on course (?) to do half-million dollars this year. Plus that you don't have to match the collateral but the loan amount (plus the interest) and in BTC not in fiat. Eg you will have to repay 0.156BTC either BTC has $10 or $10mil.

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How would you set re-payment amount in dollars and re-pay in bitcoin? I mean each exchange has usd/btc price variations and there's also price variation during the transaction confirmation time, so with fiat there could be conflict over whether the full amount was re-paid? My understanding is also that the goal of btc lenders would be to increase their btc assets, not inflationary fiat assets?

Are you saying that because my company does $500k in profit, I should not go for an extra easy $50k in profit with a few hours of work and in my opinion very low risk?
My understanding is that contract would have incoming and outgoing wallet addresses and amounts are public on blockchain. Any risks I'm missing?


No accounts involved, I'll sign and e-mail a one page contract for shares as collateral and lender will be secured by the Securities Act of 1933 and the US legal system.

You will sign as who exactly? Who will verify that you are the real one and not some other using fake doxs and that this company exists and it's not an empty shell company? An e-mail with a name and a signature? Really now?! And please, don't through laws and acts just to convince us.

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I'll sign as shareholder, it can be notarized and Apostilled. Lender can check from free online state corporate registries that a company exists, when it was incorporated, that it is active, and the annual statements are public and filed with the IRS. There are also many websites where you can put in the name of a US company and they will show a history of the amount of revenue the company has done.


State of Delaware supports digital signatures.

Doesn't support though digital currencies.
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It does. Delaware is one of the top crypto jurisdictions:
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/state-delaware-passes-law-make-blockchain-based-stock-trades-legal/
https://cryptolawinsider.com/delaware-crypto-jurisdiction/


Imho. it's a more secure collateral than any altcoin.

Just LMAO!!! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

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I don't understand what is funny about someone taking your altcoins and you being out of luck? Poly network hack, 99% exchanges have been hacked or operators exited with the coins, vulnerabilities discovered in all hardware wallets, hardware wallets using closed source chips and PRNG (retirement scam), even Trezor has acknowledged this and started work on an open source chip. Two of three most popular bitcoin paper wallet creation websites were stealing your crypto. Ledger database hacked and clients have been targeted by spear phishing attacks almost daily since then. So it's a minefield spiced with volatility and rug pulls for lenders.

With shares (securities) as collateral and doing a deal over the internet (wire), it's secure.


legendary
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August 28, 2021, 05:51:16 AM
#7
why give as collateral 200K USD for just .... 5K USD? I am missing something or it's sound a bit weird ?

He said 2% of the $200K equity will be collateral (or about $4K).
legendary
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August 28, 2021, 05:41:16 AM
#6
It's a new account, my first post, and it's not the typical collateral of altcoins, so I wanted to put down plenty of collateral.

It's not the typical collateral but it's not valid collateral either.

It's purely for business - the company is in the process of listing some shares on a private/public market, if I pay $5k using loan with my personal shares as collateral instead of company paying it using its profits, then company's profit is $5k more and at a conservative 10x profit multiple the valuation is $50k more, so I'm paying $1.5k interest for at least $50k higher valuation on the market.

Private with Public has a big difference. So you want to buy more shares of the company with others money and use them as collateral, in order to look like someone else buying them? And how do you know that will be a conservative 10x profit? If not, you will not pay interest? I'm a bit confused...Undecided

Good point about liquidity, depending on valuation methodology bitcoin price would have to increase 3x-30x in valuation in 3 months for the bitcoin re-payment value in $ to match the market value of the collateral and both I and the company have plenty of assets in our war chests to re-pay earlier if such black swan event starts to happen.

If you and the company have plenty of assets, then buy these shares without taking a loan based on cryptocurrency (anonymous, unreversible). It's more than weird to come here and ask for a loan of ~$6k when the company (and you) are worth $10m and is on course (?) to do half-million dollars this year. Plus that you don't have to match the collateral but the loan amount (plus the interest) and in BTC not in fiat. Eg you will have to repay 0.156BTC either BTC has $10 or $10mil.

No accounts involved, I'll sign and e-mail a one page contract for shares as collateral and lender will be secured by the Securities Act of 1933 and the US legal system.

You will sign as who exactly? Who will verify that you are the real one and not some other using fake doxs and that this company exists and it's not an empty shell company? An e-mail with a name and a signature? Really now?! And please, don't through laws and acts just to convince us.

State of Delaware supports digital signatures.

Doesn't support though digital currencies.

Imho. it's a more secure collateral than any altcoin.

Just LMAO!!! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
newbie
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August 28, 2021, 05:21:50 AM
#5
AFAIK, the mostly-acceptable collaterals here are tradeable altcoins/ Bitcoin.

Accounts, not so because someone could always change his/ her password under the pretense it got hacked.

There are several reputable lenders out there, but just like the above, they are highly unlikely to receive anything that's not totally secure for them to hold (i.e. your share/ stock account).

No accounts involved, I'll sign and e-mail a one page contract for shares as collateral and lender will be secured by the Securities Act of 1933 and the US legal system. State of Delaware supports digital signatures. Imho. it's a more secure collateral than any altcoin.
newbie
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August 28, 2021, 04:33:01 AM
#4
It's a new account, my first post, and it's not the typical collateral of altcoins, so I wanted to put down plenty of collateral.

It's purely for business - the company is in the process of listing some shares on a private/public market, if I pay $5k using loan with my personal shares as collateral instead of company paying it using its profits, then company's profit is $5k more and at a conservative 10x profit multiple the valuation is $50k more, so I'm paying $1.5k interest for at least $50k higher valuation on the market.

Good point about liquidity, depending on valuation methodology bitcoin price would have to increase 3x-30x in valuation in 3 months for the bitcoin re-payment value in $ to match the market value of the collateral and both I and the company have plenty of assets in our war chests to re-pay earlier if such black swan event starts to happen.
legendary
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August 28, 2021, 03:39:22 AM
#3
why give as collateral 200K USD for just .... 5K USD? I am missing something or it's sound a bit weird ?
I mean I don't want risk my house for a couple of weeks abroad....

About liquidity why company should buy these stocks (in bitcoin) if you have a default? If price skyrockets how they can pay?
 
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August 28, 2021, 03:34:55 AM
#2
AFAIK, the mostly-acceptable collaterals here are tradeable altcoins/ Bitcoin.

Accounts, not so because someone could always change his/ her password under the pretense it got hacked.

There are several reputable lenders out there, but just like the above, they are highly unlikely to receive anything that's not totally secure for them to hold (i.e. your share/ stock account).
newbie
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August 28, 2021, 03:04:23 AM
#1
I've been searching around for a bitcoin loan for company shares as collateral, but haven't found anything. Does such service exist?

I'm looking to do a deal for 0.12 bitcoin loan with repayment of 0.156 bitcoin within 3 months.

Collateral: 2% of equity ($200k) in a Delaware C-corporation incorporated 5 years ago and valued at $10M. I'm a significant shareholder.
The company is on course to do over $0.5M profit this year and is growing very fast.

Liquidity: in case of default, company has right of first refusal and will buy the shares paying lender 0.156 bitcoin.

I'd like to do the deal with someone who has experience with making bitcoin loans.
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