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Wall Street strategist and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, now chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies' crypto treasury.
US spot Ether ETFs recorded $542.2 million of net outflows in the week to October 9 as ETH stalled near $2,500, crypto.news reported. Resistance levels and continued BitMine buying sit in the same report, so the flows alone do not explain the stall.
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BitMine, which holds about 4.9% of ether's supply, plans to stop buying at 5%, roughly 100,000 tokens or $250 million away. The sum is small; the loss to ether is the weekly bid after it, at a pace the report does not give.
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Fundstrat's Tom Lee warned that Korean brokerage margin calls after an intraday KOSPI plunge of more than 6% could add selling pressure to ether. Ether lost only 0.96% over 24 hours, so the contagion he describes had not yet appeared in its price.
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Bitmine bought another 12,532 ETH last week, lifting its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, or 4.9% of supply. Chairman Tom Lee says purchases end at 5%, 76,000 to 100,000 ETH away, so the position is close to its final size.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies spent about $350 million retiring 21 million of its own shares between mid-July and August 17. A company built to accumulate ether put that cash into its own stock because management says the shares trade below its holdings.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, a cap that leaves it about $200 million of purchases at Wednesday's price. For ether's flows, that limit matters more than Tom Lee's bull call, because one of the token's steadiest buyers is close to done.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 15,112 ETH last week, lifting its treasury to 6,016,414 tokens, 4.9% of Ethereum's supply. With 84% of that staked at a 2.63% yield, the company's results now move with the ether price and the return on its validators.
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Bitmine added 17,362 ether last week to hold about 4.9% of supply, while Strategy bought 1,665 bitcoin to reach 847,666. Both kept buying as prices eased, with Bitmine now near a 5% target it set itself and Strategy adding about 0.2% to its holdings.
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Bitmine holds 5,983,940 ETH, 4.9% of supply, and the 121,060 tokens still missing cost about $325m at its own reference price, a bill its cash balance covers twice over. Tom Lee expects institutions in the fourth quarter.
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Bitmine's 5,929,198 ETH is worth about $14.79bn at $2,495 a token, against $15.7bn of total assets, and the $330m of staking revenue the company projects is the smaller half of that arithmetic.
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A $3.5 billion week came almost entirely from Ether being remarked to $2,440. The last 187,000 tokens cost more than the cash the company reports holding.
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The Miami treasury company is sending about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of its stack, into a receipt token custodied at Anchorage. Passive holding is becoming collateral.
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