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Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Better and Coinbase Can Reuse the Bitcoin Pledged Against Their Mortgages
Borrowers cannot recover the collateral until the conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced, as exchange-traded fund inflows fell 76 percent into the Labor Day break.
The bitcoin-backed mortgage product offered by Better Mortgage with Coinbase permits the lender to reuse the pledged bitcoin, and borrowers cannot recover their coins until the underlying conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced.…
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Bitcoin Becomes Rehypothecated Collateral
As regulated lenders accept bitcoin as loan security they increasingly reuse it, so bitcoin's integration into consumer and institutional credit recreates the counterparty chains of traditional finance and concentrates failure risk in intermediaries rather than in the protocol.
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