Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Buys $100M BTC Boosting Total Total Stash to $1B
The miner bought about 968 bitcoin for average price of around $104,258 each.
The miner bought about 968 bitcoin for average price of around $104,258 each.
November was a strong month for the miners as the rally in bitcoin outpaced the rise in the network hashrate, the report said.
U.S. spot-listed bitcoin ETFs currently have an AUM of $120 billion compared to gold’s $125 billion.
The swap took place Wednesday, the same day BiT Küresel lost a court case seeking to prevent Coinbase delisting WBTC.
Short-term BTC puts are in demand after hawkish Fed dented the bullish sentiment in risk assets.
XRP and DOGE futures recorded an unusually high $70 million in liquidations, indicative of rising speculative activity in majors.
The integration allows BOB, a “hybrid L2,” to use Bitcoin as its anchor chain where transactions with assets from other chains can be irreversibly recorded.
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The banking giant is building a rollup on Ethereum using Matter Labs’ ZKsync technology.
The price of bitcoin, already lower from yesterday, dipped below $104,000 in the minutes following the announcement.