Might be a decent business to start
leasing out mining equipment to the miners as a lot of loan requests seem to be from miners looking to buy the mining equipment outright.

That's a good idea, my plan is similar. I will be using the funds to purchase the miner then I will sell shares for the miner. So I am not planing to repay the loan just on mining income, the payments will actually come from those who purchase shares for the mining hardware. I guess that would have been a very important thing to mention in the OP,

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