Playboy Lost $4.9M on Ether It Accepted as NFT Payments – CoinDesk
PLBY Group (PLBY), the parent company of the late Hugh Hefner's Playboy enterprise, said it took an impairment loss of $4.9 million on the ether (ETH) it held last year, as crypto winter created a significant decline in the broader market prices.
The lifestyle and media company said it accepted ether as payments for its Rabbitars non-fungible tokens (NFT) launched in 2021, which it holds in its balance sheet as digital assets, according to an annual filing on Thursday. The value of the digital assets sits at $327,000 as of last year, the filing said.
A previous filing shows the company's digital assets, which it refers to as Ethereum, were worth $1.75 million as of Sept. 30, 2022.
The company explained that the company accounts for its digital assets as indefinite-lived intangible assets, which are subject to impairment losses if the fair value of the assets fall below their carrying value, at any time. The impairment losses the company takes on the digital assets cant be recovered, even if the fair value of the assets rise after taking the impairment losses.
The market price of one [ether] in our principal market ranged from $964 to $3,813 during the year ended Dec. 31, 2022, but the carrying value of each Ethereum we held at the end of the reporting period reflects the lowest price of one Ethereum quoted on the active exchange at any time since its receipt, according to the filing. "Therefore, negative swings in the market price of Ethereum could have a material impact on the company's earnings and carrying value, while only time a rise in prices will impact the companys earnings positively, is when the Ethereum held in the balance sheet, are sold at a gain," the filing said.
The company launched its Rabbitar NFT project in October 2021, during the peak of the crypto market. Ether, the native token of the Ethereum blockchain, lost about 60% in value since October 2021, according to TradingView data.
Earlier in 2021, Playboy entered into NFT and blockchain technology industry with its NFT drop called Liquid Summer, which is a collection of digital artworks created in collaboration with the artist Slimesunday. The collection, which minted in May 2021, features archival photographs of Playboy model Lenna Sjblom the so-called First Lady of the Internet.
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Playboy Lost $4.9M on Ether It Accepted as NFT Payments - CoinDesk
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