Most of the companies over extended and borrowed at the peak of Bitcoins bull market.
Now the banks and investors in companies like this need to get their pound of flesh.
Poor financial management wins again.
Your first theory doesn't apply to all mining companies, if they take loans from banks at high interest during such bull markets, it's enough to bankrupt them.
The bank gives the customer a high interest loan for a fixed period of time, and the loan must be repaid with the principal and profit within that period. Then the excess profit and the original combination created great pressure in this bear market. As a result, mining companies are forced to file for bankruptcy.
However, if some of the policies of the mining company, especially the financial management, have adopted unethical measures, then the mining company has to fall into a financial crisis instead of profit at the end of the year.
Poor vision, poor financial management and incompetent project starter. No one to blame for the bankruptcy of their company but the management team itself. They are too rush to start a project when they know that Bitcoin price is at its peak. They have the audacity to borrow funds when they don't have the capability to manage the system well. They rush the planning, the development and even the launch of the project. If they can only wait a little they could have been saved from the crypto crush effect of the bear market.
I don't know if any new news like this might hurt BTC again. But for a few days, we can see some significant green bars on the price chart. If something like this comes up again, then BTC will get hurt really bad this time.
We wish that this kind of thing would not happen in the upcoming future until BTC regains its strength. We all know that this kinda thing will keep on happening, as we can't stop it. But let's just hope for the best.
And the sudden inflation may have affected those companies a lot. Hopefully the others can hold onto their ground until the bear market is over.
News had been around for some weeks now, I think it won't hurt the current market since as I said the news on the bankruptcy of these mining company had been around even before we see the recent spike on the price of Bitcoin.