Bitmain’s CEO, Jihan Wu, is looking to launch three different strategies called Option Hedging, Installment Payment and Joint Mining, so that buyers have a lower threshold. The Bitmain’s installment payment strategy allows a 50% down payment, as long as over 100 machines are being bought by the customer. In the eventuality in which the number of purchased machines is over 5,000, the down payment is only 20%, with the rest of the money having to be paid 7 days prior to delivery. The Threshold for Distributors Reduced This type of installment payment would reduce the distributors’ threshold and allow them to get more stock in. It would also reduce the pressure of cash flow, seeing as the Antminers are usually all-cash futures offers with the delivery time delayed to 1 or 2 months from when the order has been made, which puts a lot of capital pressure on the buyers. The move is also regarded as a Bitmain’s concession to speed up the capturing of its market s