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Keel completed the shutdown of its US Bitcoin mining operations as it pivots toward AI and high-performance computing infrastructure Keel Infrastructure said it has decommissioned all US Bitcoin mining operations in preparation for high-performance computing (HPC) site construction, according to its second-quarter report published on Monday. The digital infrastructure company reported $30 million in revenue, down 50% year-on-year. The decrease was largely attributed to a decline in the average Bitcoin (BTC) price and the shutdown of its Moses Lake crypto mining operations in April 2026.  The company also reported a $141 million operating loss, compared with operating income of $11 million in the same period last year. The loss included $84 million in non-cash depreciation. Read more

Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas. Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms said it secured a 20-year agreement to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a “leading frontier AI” company, according to a Monday press release. The customer is Anthropic and the deal is valued at about $9 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Cointelegraph has approached Anthropic and Riot for comment. Read more

The breakaway chain has produced two blocks since splitting off on Saturday. Bitcoin has produced more than 300 in the same stretch.

Strategy’s preferred stock STRC is steadily moving back toward its $100 target as the Bitcoin treasury company increases its purchases of the shares. Data from STRC.live showed that STRC traded around $95 on Monday, extending a recovery from its late-June low of about $74 as Strategy combined open-market repurchases with a 12% annualized dividend to […] The post Strategy has $785 million left to close STRC’s final $5 gap after selling $213 million in Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Aug. 7 filing ties 479 pledged Bitcoin to the higher balance, making the dated, principal-only threshold calculable. The post Kraken holds the instant liquidation switch on a crypto firm’s 479 Bitcoin if price drops to $45,094 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin is forming a bottom inside the 2024 box, but another $65,400 rejection could send BTC toward $54,000.

Bitcoin wobbled with US stocks as Iran deflated hopes on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz oil route, while analysis praised “exceptionally strong” institutional BTC inflows. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below $64,500 after Monday’s Wall Street open as markets digested more US-Iran uncertainty. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $64,447 on Bitstamp, its lowest since Friday, before a modest rebound.  Read more

BlackRock Canada’s new IBQT fund combines global equity exposure with a 3% Bitcoin allocation through the firm’s Canadian iShares Bitcoin ETF. BlackRock Canada launched two exchange-traded funds Monday, including a portfolio that combines globally diversified equities with a 3% allocation to Bitcoin. The two funds, which began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, are the iShares Equity + Bitcoin ETF Portfolio (IBQT) and the iShares Core MSCI All-International Equity Index ETF (XINT). IBQT allocates 97% of its portfolio to Canadian, US, international and emerging-market equities and 3% to Bitcoin (BTC) exposure through BlackRock’s Canadian iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), which trades on Cboe Canada. Rather than investing in individual stocks, IBQT primarily holds other iShares ETFs to provide its equity and Bitcoin exposure. Read more

Market losses and net redemptions cut the fund to $532.8 million while Bitcoin’s portfolio share rose to 77.81%. The post Bitwise pitched a diversified 10-crypto fund, then lost $500 million as Bitcoin swallowed 78% of the portfolio appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 push failed to gain meaningful mining support over the weekend, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain that produced only two blocks before stalling at height 961,633. The soft fork was designed to temporarily restrict several forms of arbitrary data on Bitcoin and required 55% miner signaling during its deployment window. Instead, […] The post Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is back, but its backers want to replace the miners and change PoW appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitdeer mined 2,694 BTC in Q2, but ended the quarter holding just 150 BTC after liquidating its treasury earlier this year. Bitdeer mined 2,694 Bitcoin during the second quarter of 2026, up nearly fivefold from 565 BTC a year earlier.  The miner closed the quarter with 150 BTC held on its balance sheet, down 90% from 1,502 BTC a year earlier, according to the company’s Q2 report published Monday. Bitdeer liquidated its entire 943 BTC treasury in February, citing liquidity decisions rather than a shift away from its core Bitcoin mining business.  Read more

Bitcoin spiked to a new August high into Sunday’s weekly close as market participants turned their attention to the next US inflation reports. Bitcoin starts the week with new August highs as traders weigh the impact of crunch US inflation data. Key points: Key US inflation data is due as markets shift their expectations of Federal Reserve interest-rate policy. Read more

Sweden’s H100 more than tripled its Bitcoin holdings to 3,506 BTC after completing an acquisition involving 2,455 BTC. Sweden-listed health-tech and Bitcoin treasury company H100 Group completed its acquisition of Norwegian Bitcoin companies holding 2,455 Bitcoin (BTC), more than tripling its Bitcoin treasury to 3,506 BTC. The transaction involved no cash consideration, with H100 issuing 790.5 million new shares to the sellers, the company said in a Monday press release. The newly issued shares diluted existing shareholders by about 70%. H100 priced them at 1.86 Swedish kronor ($0.20) each, valuing the transaction at about 1.47 billion kronor ($155 million). Read more

Bitcoin’s BVIV volatility index hit the lowest level since 2025 as option demand collapsed. Still, overwriting surged and downside protection stayed pricey.

Three sales meet CPI and PPI, creating measurable tests of bond demand, yields and Bitcoin pressure. The post Yields are spiking toward 5.2%, but history shows Bitcoin might completely ignore Wall Street’s $125 billion stress test appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Only 800 million of those shares raised $700,000 in cash as the inactive miner searched for an operating restart. The post With $0 in revenue and 35 idle machines in storage, an inactive Bitcoin miner printed 1.65 billion shares to stay alive appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Production and managed hashrate fell in July, while the price and economics of the prepaid capacity remain undisclosed. The post A major Bitcoin miner burned through 357 BTC on secret compute deals while its output plummeted appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Michael Saylor says Strategy used AI to design a new class of preferred stocks that ultimately allowed the company to raise roughly $15 billion for its Bitcoin strategy. The Strategy executive chairman said he turned to AI after the company’s existing financing channels, including common-stock sales and convertible bonds, were becoming harder to scale. “I […] The post Michael Saylor reveals how ChatGPT helped Strategy unlock $15 billion for its Bitcoin machine appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous software buys services and pays other machines. The client hasn't […] The post AI financial advisers carry a hidden Bitcoin bias activated by a single specific switch appeared first on CryptoSlate.

None of the first 59 dominant-chain blocks signaled for the proposal, while its enforcing branch mined one successor before stalling. The post Bitcoin split into two chains overnight, but a silent miner boycott just halted the enforcing BIP-110 chain appeared first on CryptoSlate.