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IREN's bitcoin mining revenue fell 58 percent to $28 million in the quarter to September 30, while its AI cloud business brought in $200 million. The company aims to wind down most of its mining by December 31.
Base activated its Denim upgrade on November 5, cutting block time from two seconds to 200 milliseconds. The network now mints five blocks a second and has retired Flashblocks, a change that quietly shrinks any contract that still counts time in blocks.
Holders of Trump Media's $1 billion convertible notes can demand cash repayment on November 30, 2026. Days before the deadline, on-chain data showed about 4,259 bitcoin, worth around $343 million, moving to a Crypto.com address. The company has not said how it will pay, or why the coins moved.
The Trump-linked miner swung to a $126 million third-quarter profit, up from a loss, but almost all of it came from revaluing the bitcoin it holds. Mining revenue fell and the cost to produce each coin rose.
Hong Kong's Legislative Council passed a crypto tax reporting law on 4 November 2026. Exchanges must start collecting customer data in 2027, and the tax office will share it with foreign authorities from 2028. It adds no new tax.
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IREN has remade itself from a bitcoin miner into a major AI cloud provider, with more than $4 billion of annual recurring revenue already contracted and funded.
Our read: AI cloud revenue did reach $200 million, up 182 percent in a quarter, and the signed backlog rose to $20.3 billion. But IREN still lost $263 million in the quarter, has $15 billion of planned spending left to fund, and has pushed its ARR target into early 2027. The revenue leans on a small set of large customers.
Base's Denim upgrade makes the network far faster, producing a full block every 200 milliseconds.
Our read: The upgrade shipped on schedule and block time did drop to 200 milliseconds, confirmed in Base's own documentation and independent reports. The speed is real. What the framing leaves out: more blocks a second does not change the single sequencer that orders them, and the faster clock quietly breaks any contract that counts time in blocks unless it is migrated.
Trump Media faces a cash demand of up to $1 billion on November 30 that could force it to sell its bitcoin.
Our read: The put date and the $1 billion principal are real and documented in SEC filings, and the company itself warned it may need to sell bitcoin if other financing fails. But a put is not a default, much of the bitcoin is locked as collateral until 2028, and the recent transfers to Crypto.com have not been confirmed as sales. The company has not said how it will fund the repurchase.
American Bitcoin swung to a record $126 million quarterly profit.
Our read: The profit is almost entirely a non-cash gain from marking the company's bitcoin to a higher price at quarter end. Mining revenue fell, output dropped to about 891 coins, and the cost to mine each one rose to about $42,100. Without the revaluation the quarter was a loss of roughly $71 million, and the mark reverses when bitcoin falls.
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BTCPay Server, the free bitcoin payment tool, told operators to switch off their servers on November 1 after reports that attackers swept funds from internet-connected hot wallets. The project says only older versions were hit, and has not named a loss figure.
The reward for mining a block is cut in half every 210,000 blocks. It has happened four times, the subsidy is 3.125 bitcoin today, and the next cut is about 76,800 blocks away.
A powerful enough quantum computer could forge Bitcoin signatures in theory. No such machine exists, and the distance between today's 105-qubit chips and the millions an attack would need is still vast. Here is what is real, what is years away, and what Bitcoin is already doing about it.
IREN's bitcoin mining revenue fell 58 percent to $28 million in the quarter to September 30, while its AI cloud business brought in $200 million. The company aims to wind down most of its mining by December 31.
Holders of Trump Media's $1 billion convertible notes can demand cash repayment on November 30, 2026. Days before the deadline, on-chain data showed about 4,259 bitcoin, worth around $343 million, moving to a Crypto.com address. The company has not said how it will pay, or why the coins moved.
The Trump-linked miner swung to a $126 million third-quarter profit, up from a loss, but almost all of it came from revaluing the bitcoin it holds. Mining revenue fell and the cost to produce each coin rose.
Base activated its Denim upgrade on November 5, cutting block time from two seconds to 200 milliseconds. The network now mints five blocks a second and has retired Flashblocks, a change that quietly shrinks any contract that still counts time in blocks.
Lisk closed its Ethereum layer-2 chain on 2 November 2026 after close to a decade, moved the LSK token fully onto Ethereum, and reinvented itself as a payments platform for businesses. Coins left on the old chain face a manual claims process no earlier than January 2027.
The Liquid Federation says LBTC is backed one to one by bitcoin again, nearly two months after a software bug let an attacker drain about 4,000 BTC. It has not said who covered the roughly 600 BTC the attacker kept.
A spot Bitcoin ETF and buying Bitcoin direct track the same price but leave you holding different things. Here is how the two compare on what you own, custody, fees, account access and tax, and the risk each one carries.
Bitcoin traded near $76,456 at 06:40 UTC on 3 November 2026 as traders cut risk before the US midterm vote. Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $398.6 million the day before, and options markets priced in a sharper swing around the election.
Market cap counts the tokens trading now. Fully diluted valuation prices in the whole supply, locked tokens included. The gap between the two numbers is where a lot of buyers get the risk wrong.