Staking now makes up almost all of Bitmine's revenue, annual report shows
Bitmine's 10-K shows staking and validation brought in $121.4 million, or 97% of its $124.8 million revenue, in the year to August 31.
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Google released Gemini 4 Carbon on Tuesday, claiming first place on three agent benchmarks at under half the per-task cost of the next-best rival model.
Bitdeer lifts AI cloud sales to $20.4 million from $1.8 million in Q3
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Address poisoners target a 2015 genesis Ethereum wallet minutes after its test payment
Lookalike addresses dusted a 2015 genesis Ethereum wallet within three minutes of its first test payment, but the owner sent 2,154.94 ETH safely.
Enverus sees resale turbine market covering little of the AI data center power gap
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BlackRock's bitcoin ETF loses $213M as its outflow streak hits seven days
Investors pulled $213 million from BlackRock's IBIT on Nov. 9, a seventh straight day of withdrawals that has drained ~$1.66 billion since Oct. 30.
Markey asks Google to give K-12 schools Search with AI switched off
Senator Edward Markey asked Alphabet to let K-12 schools turn off Google's AI features while keeping Search, with answers due November 30.
Securitize posts $18.6M quarterly revenue, its second-highest on record
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Amazon readies a second Vulcan as its first Leo flight eyes Nov. 13 liftoff
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Coldcard RNG flaws were findable by humans, Luke Dashjr says in nine-point thread
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Qualcomm phone chip sales fall 26% while automotive revenue climbs 89%
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Fidelity's FBTC inflow outweighs IBIT redemptions and snaps a bitcoin ETF outflow run
Fidelity's FBTC drew $236.72 million on Nov. 4 and offset IBIT's $201.24 million exit as US spot bitcoin ETFs ended a $1.16 billion outflow run.
Paraguay's Bybit sellers price USDT 13% over the dollar after Ueno resolution
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Chainalysis says hackers got password hashes for all its users
Chainalysis says names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all its users were exposed, then took KYT and its login page offline.
Apple reportedly cuts engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200
Apple reportedly cut engineers' daily AI token cap from $300 to $200 in October and has weighed going as low as $25 for some non-engineering teams.
Bitwise finds Bitcoin split 5-5 in the month after the 10 largest hacks
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Polygon hard fork could hand 70.49M frozen POL back to Binance and Polymarket
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Blast shuts its Ethereum layer 2 and opens a 12-month fund recovery site
Blast shut its Ethereum layer 2 on Nov. 4 and opened a recovery site where users can claim leftover ETH, WETH or USDB until Nov. 4, 2027.
Justin Drake's 2028 goal leaves Ethereum two years for three hard forks
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THORChain reopens trading on 11 chains as Solana, BNB Chain and Cosmos stay halted
THORChain restarted swaps on 11 blockchains after its 3.21.1 update, but Solana, BNB Chain and Cosmos stay halted and 8 nodes still need to upgrade.
Mazda engineers put OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to work on vehicle aerodynamics
OpenAI is working with Mazda's aerodynamics and crash-safety engineers to test whether GPT-6 Astra can help design and evaluate new vehicles.
North Korean fake job interviews stole $14.3M before the Binance heist
Chainalysis tied more than $14.3 million in earlier crypto losses to the North Korean fake job interview playbook that later hit Binance.
Anthropic web code shows "Mythos 5.5" as Fable 5.5 rumors grow
A hidden "Mythos 5.5" label appeared in Anthropic's Mythos page code on November 1, feeding claims that Opus 5.5 requests reach an unreleased Fable 5.5.
Ark buys $3.4M of Coinbase shares on the day Morgan Stanley turns bearish
Ark Invest bought $3.4 million of Coinbase shares on November 2 as Morgan Stanley cut the stock to underweight with a $120 target.
Binance spends half its SAFU bitcoin to cover the $6.3B hack
Binance's SAFU wallet holds 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer on October 31 tied to its $6.3 billion hack, with no timeline to refill it.
NEAR governance votes to cut issuance, trimming staker yield to 3.37%
NEAR's House of Stake approved HSP-029, cutting max issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. The proposal models staking yield falling from about 5.27% to 3.37%.
Binance hacker spreads 233.46 million stolen XRP over six wallets Ripple has no power to freeze
The Binance attacker moved all 233.46 million stolen XRP into six fresh wallets on Monday. Native XRP has no issuer that can freeze it.
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong rejects FBI blame for $6 billion Binance hack
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong called the FBI's Binance hack attribution "absurd rhetoric" and a "grave political provocation" in a November 2 statement.
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ICA and Coop stores in Sweden lose frozen stock as freezers fail overnight
Freezers failed overnight at ICA and Coop stores across Sweden, and one store said hackers had set them to 50 degrees Celsius.
Mizuho leads Anthropic's $3.5 billion Japanese tranche ahead of Nasdaq debut
Anthropic filed to sell up to $3.5 billion of stock to Japanese investors through six brokers led by Mizuho, ahead of its Nasdaq listing as ANT.
Binance sees $3.64 billion net outflow as withdrawals come back online
Binance customers pulled a net ~$3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its $171 billion in assets, after the exchange reopened withdrawals on November 1.
Ubuntu-based Solana validators urged to block traffic while kernel fix waits
Anza and Tim Garcia told Solana validators on Ubuntu to block IPv4-option TCP packets and disable MPTCP until Ubuntu patches CVE-2026-98432.
Attacker logged in as admin on old BTCPay servers before hot-wallet drains, founder says
BTCPay Server founder Nicolas Dorier said hot-wallet sweeps appear to hit servers older than 2.4.2, where an attacker logged in as admin.
BlackRock and Fidelity funds drive $643M bitcoin ETF outflow after Binance hack
BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC led a $643.3 million US spot bitcoin ETF outflow on October 30, one day after a $6.3 billion hack hit Binance.
Circle starts winding down CCTP V1 ahead of the December 1 USDC bridge pause
Circle cuts burn limits on its legacy CCTP V1 USDC bridge from October 31 and pauses the contracts December 1. Apps must move to CCTP V2.
Strategy books record $20.9B Q3 operating income as finance chief Kang leaves
Strategy CFO Andrew Kang steps down November 5 as a $20.91 billion bitcoin gain lifts Q3 operating income to a record. Reza Virasteh takes over in 2027.
Polygon opens US bank payouts to Solana stablecoin businesses
Polygon added Solana to its Open Money Stack, so Solana businesses can move bank deposits into stablecoins and pay out to US bank accounts.
Utah files felony gambling case against Kalshi, Mansour and Lopes Lara
Utah charged Kalshi with 13 felonies and a misdemeanor, naming founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, after an undercover agent placed 12 sports bets.
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