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MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel stated to shareholders that Bitcoin mining remains the core business of the company. Bitdeer Chief Strategy Officer Haris Basit mentioned that the company does not wish to rely on any single market cycle. Amid the sell-off of artificial intelligence stocks, some large Bitcoin mining companies that had previously shifted towards AI infrastructure are re-emphasizing their cryptocurrency business.After the Bitcoin halving in 2024, mining profit margins are being squeezed, and several mining companies are expanding their business into AI infrastructure. Recently, IREN and CoreWeave's stock prices have plummeted, with CoreWeave's bond yields reaching junk bond levels, and Bitcoin prices have also fallen from the historical high set in October 2025.

According to monitoring by Arkham, the UAE royal family-associated Bitcoin mining company Citadel is still engaged in Bitcoin mining and currently holds approximately 532 million USD in Bitcoin.85% of Citadel's shares are held by 2pointzero, which is 100% owned by IHC. The UAE Royal Group holds about 61% of IHC's shares, which is owned by Abu Dhabi royal family member Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Bitcoin mining machine manufacturer Canaan has launched a $20 million stock repurchase plan, which is part of the $100 million repurchase authorization approved by the board on November 6, with a duration of 12 months. Management stated that they will actively promote the repurchase once the funds are in place and may adjust the purchase arrangements based on operational and financing needs. As of Wednesday's close, Canaan's stock price has fallen about 75% this year. CEO Zhang Nengeng stated that while maintaining a long-term digital asset reserve, the company is selectively liquidating cryptocurrency holdings to fund the stock repurchase.Canaan's revenue from mining machines in the third quarter was $4.8 million, a 96% decrease from $118.6 million in the same period last year, which the company attributed to weakened demand and declining prices. During the same period, self-mining revenue was $9.5 million, nearly double that of mining machine revenue. The company recorded a profit of $8 million for the quarter, but an operating loss of $42.9 million, with profits mainly coming from the revaluation gains of cryptocurrencies and financial derivatives. Previous disclosures indicated that the company had sold 3,952 ETH and 54.5 BTC for approximately $13.9 million and used $5.4 million in late August to repurchase 13.6 million American depositary shares.As of September 30, Canaan held 1,875.5 BTC, of which 1,258 BTC were pledged for loans, 100 BTC were placed in fixed-term products, and the remaining 517.5 BTC were directly recorded as cryptocurrency assets, valued at $43.7 million at the end of the quarter. The company's total cash and restricted cash amounted to $72.8 million, of which $50 million was used to support letters of credit for infrastructure commitments, leaving approximately $22.8 million outside the restricted balance. Management stated that the current stock price does not adequately reflect the company's business and growth prospects.

On November 11, the Selangor police in Malaysia publicly destroyed 186 seized Bitcoin mining machines, with the state police chief, Shafie, personally driving a bulldozer to crush the equipment. This destruction operation involved 7,445 pieces of evidence seized between 2021 and 2026, with a total value of approximately 1.19 million Malaysian Ringgit, which has been approved by the court.In addition, the Perak police recently collaborated with the national energy company to raid a residential house suspected of stealing electricity for mining, seizing another 48 Bitcoin mining machines. An investigation is currently underway based on relevant criminal and electricity regulations.

According to the Russian newspaper "Kommersant," Russia's PSB Bank has applied to the court to declare Igor Runets, the founder of the large cryptocurrency mining company BitRiver, personally bankrupt, seeking to recover approximately 773 million rubles.PSB stated that Runets had guaranteed loans for BitRiver's subsidiary BitRiver-B, and since the borrower failed to repay the debt on time, Runets must bear joint liability. In February of this year, Runets was placed under house arrest by the court for allegedly concealing funds or assets that could be used to recover unpaid taxes. Currently, some companies under the BitRiver group have also entered bankruptcy observation procedures.

Spider Digital Technology Ltd., a cryptocurrency mining pool operator headquartered in Singapore, announced that it has signed a definitive business combination agreement with Starlink AI Acquisition Corporation, a blank check company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (stock ticker OTAI), on October 30, 2026. The agreement sets the valuation of Spider Digital at $250 million to determine the merger consideration. Upon completion of the transaction, Spider Digital and Starlink AI will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Spider Digital Technology Group, which is expected to go public in the United States after meeting applicable listing requirements and obtaining approval.According to the agreement, PubCo's wholly-owned subsidiary Merger Sub I will merge with Spider Digital, after which Merger Sub II will merge with Starlink AI, and both companies will continue to exist after their respective mergers. The completion of the transaction is subject to approval by both parties' shareholders, the effectiveness of PubCo's F-4 registration statement, approval for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and other customary closing conditions. Spider Digital claims that it operates its own mining pool system and has independent block production capabilities, without sharing pool control or hash power scheduling rights with third parties. The company's founder, chairman, and CEO Chen Hua, along with Starlink AI's chairman and CEO Gus Liu, both commented on the proposed merger.

During the quarter ending September 30, 2026, Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies produced 1,070 Bitcoins, a 49% increase from 718 Bitcoins in the same period last year. However, affected by the decline in Bitcoin prices, its mining revenue decreased by 7.4% year-on-year to $76 million, while the average Bitcoin price fell from $114,382 to $71,003.As HIVE expands its global mining capacity, its electricity costs rose from $37.9 million to $45.6 million, and due to "weak mining economics," the company recorded a non-cash impairment of $31.2 million on mining machines. During the same period, the company's high-performance computing (HPC) hosting revenue grew by 71% to $8.8 million, accounting for 10.4% of quarterly revenue. HIVE plans to invest up to $493 million to expand its HPC business over the next 36 months, having already invested $145.3 million as of the report date, and plans to spend approximately $35 million to convert its Toronto facility into a Tier-III data center.The financial report shows that HIVE's revenue for the second fiscal quarter was $84.9 million, a year-on-year decrease of 2.7%, which was higher than the market expectation of $79.4 million; GAAP net loss was $78.7 million, or $0.29 per share. HIVE's Nasdaq stock price fell 1.7% to $1.78 after hours on Monday. HIVE's performance further indicates that Bitcoin mining economics are under pressure, with American Bitcoin reporting weakened mining margins last week, and Core Scientific planning to completely exit the mining business by the end of the year.

According to Crypto Briefing, Benoît Pellevoizin, Managing Director of CoinShares France, stated that restrictions on the construction of new data centers following the U.S. midterm elections may increase the value of existing Bitcoin mining infrastructure, but companies with paid AI tenants will benefit the most.He pointed out that concerns over electricity prices, water consumption, and the influence of large tech companies have increased public resistance to new facilities, while existing mines face fewer obstacles due to already holding power contracts and grid connections. CoinShares data shows that many projects have grid connection delays exceeding five years, with the PJM region averaging over seven years. Fully leased AI data centers are valued at approximately $27 million per megawatt, while publicly listed mining companies with partially held, powered but unleased capacity are valued at less than $3 million per megawatt. However, the cost to convert to AI facilities ranges from $8 million to $15 million per megawatt. Additionally, mining companies with contracted AI capacity trade at an average of 12.9 times forward sales, while uncontracted mining companies only trade at 3.7 times.

According to Bitcoin.com, the difficulty of Bitcoin mining has been below the historical high of 155.97T set on October 29, 2025, for 374 days, marking the longest duration in the network's history, surpassing the 364-day record set after the 2011 crash and the 253 days following China's mining ban in 2021. Economist Saifedean Ammous pointed out that the 95% price retracement in 2011 and the Chinese mining ban did not last as long as this, calling it a new world for Bitcoin mining.The difficulty dropped to a low of 124.93T in mid-June 2026, about 20% lower than the peak. Although there was a rebound in October, with the difficulty rising to 148.36T, Mempool.space predicts it will decline again by about 3.7% around November 13, further delaying new highs. Reports indicate that the pressure comes from the sluggish Bitcoin price and publicly listed mining companies selling off Bitcoin and shifting towards AI, while the Democrats pushing for data center restrictions after the midterm elections may also impact mining companies.

According to a research report released by the University of Oregon Blockchain Group (Dorm DAO), the student fund recommends a full investment in the AI mining project Pearl ($PEARL), with a target price of $2.50 to $3.00. Currently, Pearl has a market capitalization of approximately $531 million.The research report points out that Pearl is a Layer 1 public chain that replaces proof of work (PoW) with matrix multiplication, using "proof of useful work (PoUW)," allowing GPUs serving AI to simultaneously ensure network security and earn tokens. The fund views the potential listing expectations on Coinbase and Kraken, the FP8 kernel upgrade (which aims to reduce mining costs to nearly 0%), and the AI computing narrative as three major catalysts.The report also reveals several risks: currently, less than 1% of blocks are running real AI tasks, most of which are meaningless random matrix calculations; the token supply is expected to expand by approximately 86% next year; and the internal holding situation of the approximately 122 million tokens (accounting for 5.8% of the total supply) produced in the early days of the mainnet launch (within 6 days) has not been disclosed, and the project currently lacks a third-party code audit.

TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced its third-quarter financial report, revealing that its Bitcoin mining revenue dropped from $43.4 million in the same period last year to $13.2 million, a decrease of approximately 69%. During the same period, high-performance computing (HPC) leasing revenue reached $63 million, an increase of 774% compared to $7.2 million in the same period last year. Total revenue was $76.2 million, a year-on-year increase of 51%, with HPC leasing contributing 83%, compared to only 14% in the same period last year.The company's net profit attributable to shareholders for the third quarter was $709.9 million, which included a non-cash gain of $728.4 million from the fair value changes of warrants and derivative liabilities; operating losses widened from $24.7 million in the same period last year to $88.2 million, with adjusted EBITDA at negative $12.8 million. As of the end of the quarter, the company held approximately $2.4 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash.TeraWulf previously signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic to provide approximately 401 megawatts of critical IT capacity for its Justified campus in Kentucky, with contract revenue of about $19 billion during the initial term. This week, the company announced it received credit backing from Google for project financing and signed an engineering, procurement, and construction agreement with Fluor Enterprises covering three data center buildings, with the first phase expected to be delivered by the end of 2027. As of September 30, its Lake Mariner campus in New York had already generated revenue from 102 megawatts of critical IT capacity, with an additional 336 megawatts under construction; the contracted power capacity at the Muskie campus in Kentucky has been increased from 500 megawatts to 1 gigawatt, pending regulatory approval.

As Bitcoin mining companies accelerate their shift to AI data center businesses, construction cost overruns and risk allocation have become the focus of market attention. In the latest earnings season, Cipher disclosed that, according to the revised leasing arrangements, the company will bear the first cost overrun of $359.3 million beyond the original budget for the Barber Lake project.Riot expects that about 70% of its Rockdale project budget will be included in a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) contract to control cost risks. Core Scientific stated that tariffs have increased the costs of some equipment and materials. In addition, Riot pointed out that lenders are more strictly reviewing tenant credit status, power supply facility energization, and project delivery records.

Bitcoin mining company turned AI cloud computing service provider IREN announced its first quarter results for the fiscal year 2027 ending September 30, 2026, with total revenue increasing by 66% quarter-over-quarter to $228 million. Among this, AI cloud business revenue grew by 182% quarter-over-quarter to $200 million, with a gross margin of 86%; Bitcoin mining revenue fell from $67 million in the previous quarter to $28 million. The net loss for the quarter was $263 million, compared to $684 million in the previous quarter, with adjusted EBITDA at $66 million.The company's contract revenue backlog increased by 22% quarter-over-quarter to $20.3 billion, with contracts and funding support already secured for the annual recurring revenue target of over $4 billion. Due to customer design adjustments and supplier delivery timelines, the expected realization time has been postponed from the end of 2026 to January 2027, and it may extend to February. Additionally, after the end of the quarter, the company signed a five-year AI cloud service contract, priced at approximately $22 million per megawatt, with the customer prepaying 90% of the GPU capital expenditures.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that a Canadian man has been extradited to the United States, facing charges of assisting in the intrusion of university computers, stealing login credentials, and secretly mining cryptocurrency.A federal grand jury in the Western District of New York indicted 35-year-old Ryan James Roach, a resident of Saskatchewan, and 41-year-old Mathiew James Stubbings, a resident of Ontario, on charges including conspiracy to obtain and damage protected computer information, obtaining protected computer information, and intentionally damaging protected computers, which could result in a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.The indictment shows that between June 2016 and December 2019, the two targeted U.S. educational institutions with supercomputers, first researching their cybersecurity weaknesses before executing the intrusions. Once inside the systems, they allegedly deployed malware, stole login credentials, and forced the victims' computers to mine for them.Victims included institutions in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. The two reportedly used virtual private servers registered under false names in multiple countries to send malware and mining programs and store stolen credentials, while also forwarding attacks through other victims' compromised computers to hide their identities.Roach was extradited from Canada on October 28 and was arraigned in Rochester, New York, where he is currently detained awaiting a detention hearing. Extradition proceedings for Stubbings are still ongoing in Canada. This case falls under cryptocurrency hijacking, where attackers use others' computers to mine, leaving the victims to bear the electricity costs and suffer performance degradation. The Department of Justice did not specify the particular cryptocurrencies mined by the two.Google's Threat Intelligence team released a report on Monday stating that attackers are expected to increasingly prioritize LLMjacking over traditional resource thefts like cryptocurrency hijacking, which involves hijacking corporate access to AI models and shifting the billing.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings transferred 1,650 BTC, worth approximately $132.8 million, to Galaxy Digital, Copper, and other platforms in the past 12 hours.

According to BBX data, yesterday global cryptocurrency asset service providers and leading Bitcoin mining companies intensively released their financial reports for the third quarter of 2026, with core financial data as follows:Circle (NYSE: $CRCL) Q3 net profit reached 226 million USD, adjusted EBITDA surged by 85%: Stablecoin issuer Circle released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026, showing strong performance. The total revenue and reserve income for the quarter reached 865 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 17%; net profit from continuing operations reached 226 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 5% (diluted earnings per share of 0.84 USD). Thanks to increased interest income and the adoption rate of USDC, its adjusted EBITDA reached 317 million USD, achieving a significant year-on-year growth of 85%.Hut 8 (NASDAQ: $HUT) Q3 net profit reached 131 million USD, recorded 414 million USD in digital asset unrealized gains: Bitcoin mining and energy infrastructure company Hut 8 announced its Q3 financial report. Despite the impact of selling its power generation assets in Ontario and a decrease in custody income, total revenue for the quarter decreased by 14.9% year-on-year to 71.07 million USD, but net profit attributable to the company surged to 131 million USD (compared to 50.11 million USD in the same period last year, diluted earnings per share of 0.98 USD). The significant improvement in profit was mainly due to 414 million USD in non-cash gains from digital assets (during the quarter, Bitcoin prices soared from about 59,847 USD to about 83,415 USD). Adjusted EBITDA was 33.03 million USD, with a cash balance of 157 million USD as of September 30.Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: $RIOT) Q3 revenue increased to 181 million USD, data center business offset mining decline: Bitcoin mining and data center developer Riot Platforms disclosed its Q3 performance, with total revenue reaching 181 million USD, a slight increase of 1%. The financial report indicated that strong growth in data center and engineering operations successfully offset the decline in Bitcoin mining revenue following the halving. The net profit for the quarter was 4.03 million USD (compared to 104 million USD in the same period last year), and adjusted EBITDA remained at a healthy level of 191 million USD.

According to TheEnergyMag, Ionic Digital, which has transformed from a Bitcoin mining company to a data center operator, announced its third-quarter performance, with total revenue increasing by 32% year-on-year to $48.9 million. Among this, digital infrastructure leasing revenue was approximately $43.9 million, accounting for nearly 90% of total revenue; mining revenue fell from $37.1 million in the same period last year to about $5.1 million, a decrease of 86%. Adjusted EBITDA was about $35 million, compared to $154,000 in the same period last year.Although leasing revenue reached $43.9 million in the third quarter, the actual cash rent received was only about $7 million. The company reiterated its full-year guidance for 2026, expecting total revenue to be between $190 million and $195 million, and is actively seeking customers for its nearly 500 megawatts of additional power capacity at its Texas property.

According to Bitcoin.com, data from hashrateindex.com shows that the price of Bitcoin hashrate dropped from $40.24/PH/s/day on October 1 to $33.18/PH/s/day on November 1, a decline of 17.54%, closely related to the market turmoil following the Binance hacking incident.Nevertheless, miners recorded their highest monthly revenue since November 2025 in October. Data from newhedge.io shows that total miner revenue from October 1 to 31 reached $1.215 billion, while the price of Bitcoin fell by 7.3% during the month. Currently, the total hashrate of the Bitcoin network is 1082.24 EH/s, with an average block time of about 9 minutes and 52 seconds. Analysts point out that the market downturn has not significantly hindered mining operations, but the continued compression of profit margins may test miners' financial resilience.

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin mining company turned data center developer Cipher Digital reported a net profit of 31.6 million USD for the third quarter, despite a 63% year-over-year decline in revenue. Revenue fell from 71.7 million USD in the same period last year to 26.7 million USD, with Bitcoin mining contributing 20.8 million USD, a 71% decrease, as Cipher shifted its computing power from mining to leasing data centers to AI companies.This quarter, Cipher generated revenue from this business for the first time, with its Texas Black Pearl data center bringing in 5.9 million USD after commencing operations in August. Cipher reported an operating loss of 71.9 million USD, up from 37.6 million USD in the same period last year; adjusted EBITDA dropped from a positive 40.8 million USD to a negative 10 million USD. The net profit mainly came from a 127.2 million USD non-cash accounting gain related to warrants from Google, which does not represent cash actually received by Cipher. Recently, Cipher extended the lease term for the Barber Lake data center to 20 years, bringing the site's contract revenue to approximately 9.1 billion USD.

According to mempool.space data, at 03:14:58 Beijing time, Bitcoin completed its latest mining difficulty adjustment at block height 973728, with the difficulty increased by 5.54% to 148.36T. The previous adjustment was an increase of 5.92% to 140.58T.