It may have sold some of its stash last quarter, but Japanese bitcoin giant Metaplanet has said it was just to demonstrate to investors that it could if it wanted to. 

In a filing Monday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed firm said that it bought a total of 1,000 bitcoin in the third quarter of this year — landing it a spot as the second biggest bitcoin treasury. 

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan’s Metaplanet announces a net increase of 1,000 Bitcoin worth $86 million in Q3 🚀

They just became the 2nd-largest corporate BTC holder on Earth 👏 pic.twitter.com/ZjSBkRWdvc

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Bitcoin is often talked about in very abstract terms: ‘cryptocurrency ’, ‘digital gold’, metaphors that attempt to make this digital wonder of a monetary system feel more physical, more real to normal people. How well these metaphors work may be debated, but they are not the only attempts at making Bitcoin feel like more than just some tech asset in your portfolio.

A growing niche of Bitcoin visualizers, explorers, and passive art-first interfaces has emerged over the years to make the cryptocurrency feel alive, something you can hang on your wall and admire casually or even listen to as you might the birds that chirp outside your window. In some cases, Bitcoiners connect them…

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed new rules to regulate digital asset transactions and markets. 

In a Monday release, the agency said that the proposed rules would ​allow U.S. crypto exchanges to opt into a federal regulatory regime. 

Despite lawmakers blocking the Clarity Act last month, the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission have pressed ahead with proposing rules to regulate the digital asset industry. 

“Today’s action is a critical step in the CFTC’s ongoing efforts to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world,” Chairman Mike Selig said. 

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC proposes rules to regulate U.S. crypto…

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Bitcoin treasury Strategy is back in the black after the rising price of the leading cryptocurrency gave the firm paper gains of $21 billion last quarter, its founder and chairman Michael Saylor has said. 

The Nasdaq-listed company last week also spent $28.7 million on 334 bitcoins last week, according to a Monday filing. The firm’s stock (MSTR) jumped earlier trading hours in New York before dipping slightly; it was recently priced nearly 2% higher. 

Bitcoin’s price shot up over 40% in the third quarter of this year, having its best three months in years. 

Strategy reports a $21 billion gain on digital assets in Q3 2026. Last week, we acquired 334 $BTC and…

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The International Monetary Fund has praised El Salvador for improving its economy — but scolded it at the same time for its ongoing Bitcoin experiment. 

In a statement Friday, the IMF said that it had  approved a $139 million disbursement to the Central American nation while also trying to “reduce the state’s involvement in Bitcoin-related activities.”

El Salvador in 2021 made Bitcoin legal tender, much to the ire of the IMF and other major institutions. The Latin American country was at the time negotiating a development loan with the agency. 

The IMF in September said that El Salvador wasn’t buying bitcoin; the country’s Bitcoin Office has repeatedly…

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South African bank Absa has become the first African lender to custody bitcoin, according to reports. 

As reported first by Bloomberg on Friday, the Johannesburg-based lender will serve institutional clients, mostly by custodying bitcoin — but other digital assets will also be a part of the service. 

Banks worldwide are integrating or offering bitcoin-related products and services. A number of U.S. and European banks have started offering crypto-related services by custodying assets for institutions.

Rob Downes, head of digital assets at Absa’s corporate and investment banking unit, was quoted saying that while bitcoin was the biggest asset the bank would custody,…

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The price of bitcoin surged above $87,000 on Friday morning in New York, buoyed by constant exchange-traded fund flows and a jobs report showing that unemployment in the U.S. had ticked up. 

Bitcoin’s price recently stood at $85,990 after a 2% jump over a 24-hour period. Over the past week, it has also risen by more than 2%. 

Nonfarm payrolls increased 29,000 last month after a downward revision to the prior two months, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed Friday. 

Weaker-than-expected jobs data can give a lift to riskier assets like bitcoin and stocks, whose prices tend to swing more sharply. 

A softer labor market typically means less consumer spending,…

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In May 2026, Strive rebranded itself as “The Daily Dividend Company,” then moved SATA to daily cash dividends beginning June 16. Strategy has now pushed the same idea into its own digital credit engine. On September 24, its board proposed moving STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD to daily dividends, subject to shareholder approval at an October 28 special meeting. The proposal keeps the annual dividend economics unchanged and changes the cadence of cash payments.

STRC spent much of the summer below its $100 stated amount even as Strategy raised its dividend rate to 12% and deployed more than $1 billion buying back STRC. The move to daily dividends by Strategy could be seen as the latest…

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Bitcoin miners already have the power, the land, and the substations that AI needs. Frank Holmes, executive chairman of HIVE Digital Technologies, explains why he calls Bitcoin mining a “tier one” data center, how GPUs that once mined Ethereum led HIVE into AI, and why he thinks the next wave of AI factories will be built on mining infrastructure from Paraguay to Canada.

Chapters:0:00 Frank Holmes on HIVE: From Gold Investor to Bitcoin Miner to AI Compute2:12 How ETFs Changed Bitcoin: From the Fear Trade to the Love Trade4:20 The Binance $19 Billion Liquidation and the $350 Trillion Money Supply5:45 Gamers, Younger Quants, and Why Bitcoin Will Keep Gaining Adoption7:29…

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Traditional private equity is always on a clock, says Nico Lechuga. Funds run seven to ten years, so businesses get flipped in three to five. Lechuga, a founding partner at Ego Death Capital and co-founder of ORANGE JUICE, explains how permanent capital and a Bitcoin treasury could give owner-operators another option.

Chapters:0:00 Meet Nico Lechuga of ego death capital and ORANGE JUICE0:31 Why Private Equity’s Fund Model Keeps Owners on a Clock1:16 What Makes a Good Acquisition Target for a Permanent Holding Company3:11 Bitcoin or Another Business: How Free Cash Flow Gets Allocated4:33 Why Debt Is a Drag and How Permanent Capital Differs7:23 Owner-Operators as Frontline…

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