Good Evening Legends! 🔥
Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin rose back to $85,091.
- Bitcoin ETFs bought $2.3 billion through Thursday, including $190 million of inflows yesterday even as the price stagnated near $84,000.
- JPMorgan says Bitcoin moving above its $85,000 production cost could ease miner selling, reclaiming a soft floor after 280 days as miners pivot to AI.
- Jack Dorsey's Block is integrating Bitcoin Lightning to power AI payments, bypassing high card fees and enabling instant, low-cost autonomous transactions.
- French firm Sequans sold its entire Bitcoin position, offloading its last 63 BTC after holdings peaked at 3,234 BTC in October 2025.
- Kazakhstan will let crypto miners generate power from flared oil field gas, unlocking up to 1.3 TWh of potential energy while cutting emissions.
- Some 3,832 NFTs worth over $1.5 million were rescued in a reported whitehat move after old Magic Eden Ethereum approvals left them exposed.
- Strategy's board will put daily preferred dividends on STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD to a shareholder vote on October 28, changing payment timing but not amounts.
- Charles Schwab, which oversees $13 trillion, is hiring a Director of Crypto Tech.
- US authorities froze about $84 million from Capstone, a Tether-linked payments firm the DOJ accuses of illegally moving hundreds of millions for Tether and Bitfinex.