Luxor’s reported 6–13% annualized Bitcoin yield depends on mining delivery

Luxor, a Bitcoin mining derivatives provider, reported a 6–13% annualized Bitcoin financing spread in its September lookback, published Oct. 9. It says lenders and Bitcoin treasury companies bought prepaid mining power and paired it with a price hedge, while miners used the reverse trade to obtain financing.

The return comes from the discount a miner accepts for receiving money upfront. The hedge can fix gross BTC receipts if mining delivery and settlement perform, while the investor’s capital remains exposed to failure in that repayment chain. Luxor’s reported September range does not establish an executed return after costs or a quote available today.

Where the Bitcoin return comes from

Mining power, or hashrate, produces revenue at a rate known as hashprice. Luxor’s contracts express that rate in Bitcoin or dollars per unit of computing power per day. Buying future mining power gives the purchaser exposure to the income that power generates over the contract period.

In a deliverable forward, the buyer pays the full purchase price upfront. The seller must deliver hashrate to Luxor’s Bitcoin Mining Pool, with the buyer’s daily BTC settlement tied to the hashprice index and contracted amount of mining power.