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Canaan revenue falls 90% to $14.5 million as rig sales dry up

The rig maker's quarterly sales fell to $14.5 million, down from $150.5 million a year earlier, as demand for its machines dried up. A reported $8 million net profit rested almost entirely on paper gains from the bitcoin it holds, not on selling anything.

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Trump Media posts $410 million profit on bitcoin price gains

Trump Media reported a $409.7 million profit for the third quarter of 2026, but almost all of it was an unrealized gain on the bitcoin it holds. Revenue was just $3.0 million, and with bitcoin now below its September close, the next quarter could swing back to a loss.

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How long does it take to mine one Bitcoin? The real answer

The honest answer is not 10 minutes. The network releases a fresh batch of coins about every 10 minutes, but what any miner earns depends on their slice of a vast pool of computing power. For a single home machine, a whole coin can take decades.

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PNC begins USDC payments for corporate clients via Coinbase

PNC Bank has started a pilot that lets corporate and institutional clients receive USDC, converted one-to-one into dollars and deposited in a normal account. Coinbase provides the technology. For now it is incoming payments only, with no pricing or volumes disclosed.

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MARA sold 13,597 bitcoin for $1.1 billion and plans more sales

The bitcoin miner sold about 40 percent of its holdings after the third quarter at an average of $81,039 a coin, used most of the cash to clear $750 million in bitcoin-backed loans, and told shareholders it will keep selling. Chairman Fred Thiel said it is not a pivot away from bitcoin.

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Securitize to buy River One in asset-backed lending push

Securitize said it will buy River One, a New York warehouse-financing firm, moving its tokenization business into private asset-backed lending. The deal landed with third-quarter results showing revenue up 13 percent and a net loss of $66.3 million.

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How long does it take to mine one Bitcoin? The real answer

The honest answer is not 10 minutes. The network releases a fresh batch of coins about every 10 minutes, but what any miner earns depends on their slice of a vast pool of computing power. For a single home machine, a whole coin can take decades.

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Can quantum computers break Bitcoin? No machine is close yet

Bitcoin's digital signatures could one day be cracked by a powerful quantum computer. None exists yet, and the machines that do are thousands of times too small. Here is what is actually at risk, how far the hardware really is, and the fixes already being written.

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What is a bitcoin treasury company, and how does the model work?

These companies exist to own bitcoin. They raise cash from shareholders and lenders, buy coins, and report how many they hold per share. Strategy started the model and holds the most by far. It prints value when the share price runs ahead of the bitcoin, and bleeds when it does not.

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Canaan revenue falls 90% to $14.5 million as rig sales dry up

The rig maker's quarterly sales fell to $14.5 million, down from $150.5 million a year earlier, as demand for its machines dried up. A reported $8 million net profit rested almost entirely on paper gains from the bitcoin it holds, not on selling anything.

4 min read

Trump Media posts $410 million profit on bitcoin price gains

Trump Media reported a $409.7 million profit for the third quarter of 2026, but almost all of it was an unrealized gain on the bitcoin it holds. Revenue was just $3.0 million, and with bitcoin now below its September close, the next quarter could swing back to a loss.

4 min read

PNC begins USDC payments for corporate clients via Coinbase

PNC Bank has started a pilot that lets corporate and institutional clients receive USDC, converted one-to-one into dollars and deposited in a normal account. Coinbase provides the technology. For now it is incoming payments only, with no pricing or volumes disclosed.

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Solana moves to retire durable nonces after $270 million Drift hack

A draft proposal would strip durable nonces out of Solana, a feature that lets a signed transaction sit unspent for weeks. Attackers used it to drain at least $270 million from the Drift trading platform in April. Custodians that sign offline would have to rebuild how they move funds.

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Bitcoin falls under $74,000 as $1 billion in bets are liquidated

Bitcoin dropped to $73,477 late on Sunday, its lowest level since August, before recovering above $74,000. More than $1 billion in leveraged crypto bets were wiped out in a day, most of them longs, as a stock-market scare over Nvidia spread to digital assets.

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MSCI could cut Strategy from its indexes, list due Nov 11

MSCI will publish on November 11 the companies it is cutting from its global indexes under new rules for non-operating firms. Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, is among those at risk, and JPMorgan put the possible forced selling near $2.8 billion.

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Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion in a week, almost all from IBIT

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion in the week to November 6, 2026, almost all of it from BlackRock's IBIT. The headline looks like a wall of institutional selling. The detail is narrower, and it tracked a falling price more than it drove one.

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