Blockstream Is Betting on Bitcoin Comeback as It Hoards Crypto Mining Rigs

  • Firm will buy machines and sell them around ‘halving’ event
  • We think there’s a huge price correction coming: Blockstream
Adam Back, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blockstream, during the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach.Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg
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Bitcoin developer Blockstream Corp. is betting that the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency is poised for a massive rebound, and is buying up Bitcoin mining rigs so that it can sell them for a profit later should the prediction hold.

Montreal-based Blockstream was one of the earliest Bitcoin infrastructure companies, conceived in 2014 by CEO and co-founder Adam Back, among the industry insiders thought to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin — speculation dispelled by Back.