We have just had the halvening. Historically that leads to upticks. Then we are moving into that part of the year when the jumps in price happen. One worldwide worry has been that despite the bad employment situation, the markets seems to continue to surge. This gap between the wealth of richest and subsistence level income for salaried classes MAY lead to some form of social protests. Yet, world over, people don't really have the belly for protests at this time.
A drop to 5900 from ~9500 seems unlikely. Though, one has to ask, what kind of service are they giving if they will start liquidating the assets. As long as they have your BTC, It is with them, right? What is the meaning of providing a loan service that would depend on liquidating your collateral without even checking if you can repay back in time. How does that make sense? Is this the model that most such "loan" services are following??
Yes,this is exactly the model of such loan services.If the collateral value drops under the amount of the loan,the "bank" liquidates the loan by selling the collateral.Loans on Bitcointalk follow the same rules.
I don't think that the lender(in this case Nexo) can really check if OP can repay his loan.
Anyway,this makes me wonder what's the point of sending your Bitcoins as a 140% collateral for a fiat loan.
This doesn't make much sense to me.I assume that OP is in big need for fiat money,but doesn't want to sell his BTC.
The chance of BTC price going back to 5.9K USD in 2020 is 50/50.You can't be sure about anything,when it comes to the price of Bitcoin.
Okay, Sorry i am a little uneducated in this as i have never tried to take or offer any such loans. Yet, if popular services are using even bitcoin as such a collateral then frankly, what is the point of crypto. I mean its understandable if they want to liquidate some alt-coins as collateral because their value is only related to latest pump and dumps.
That is most definitely not the case with bitcoin. If someone offers fiat loans against bitcoin, they should simply keep them as collateral (Like banks do with immovable property) and liquidate only if the customer is unable to repay the interest or repay the principal amount. If you liquidate based on drop in fiat value, then that is just wrong. The service providers BTC stash isn't decreasing. Why would the loan takers agree to this. Also, does this even comply to any kind of lending/ banking standards??