Publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies earned roughly $2 billion in revenue during the first half of 2026.

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Babylon Labs submitted a governance proposal to let Bitcoin holders borrow stablecoins through Aave V4 without selling their BTC, moving it to another blockchain, or handing it to a custodian

Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturers Canaan and MicroBT participated in Luxor Technology's $16 million funding round alongside Halo, Steelhead, and angel investors.

Luxor Technology expanded its hardware brokerage business to include GPU sourcing in December 2025 after historically trading over $1 billion in ASIC bitcoin mining equipment.

Luxor Technology co-founder and CEO Nick Hansen stated that digital mining and AI computing markets are converging, with identical mining operators, power sites, and capital transitioning to power AI.

Luxor Technology services over 3,000 corporate clients across its Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure businesses as of October 2026.

The 28% decline in 2026 blockchain revenue closely aligns with a 30% drop in overall cryptocurrency and Bitcoin prices during the same period.

Itaú Unibanco offers crypto trading on its platform for several digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC.

Google Cloud's initial Multi-Party Compute service supports conventional ECDSA signing for Bitcoin and Ethereum, with Ed25519 support planned for Solana.

TRM Labs estimated that $2.4 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum stolen during the October 29, 2026 Binance hack will never be recovered.

Google researchers estimated that a sufficiently powerful future quantum computer could theoretically derive a Bitcoin private key from an exposed public key in approximately 9 minutes.

Following the October 29, 2026 Binance hack, Bitcoin dropped as much as 5% below $76,000 and broader cryptocurrency markets declined up to 9%.

The 10 Grayscale products eligible for in-kind transfers are tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Avalanche, Chainlink, Dogecoin, Hyperliquid, Solana, Sui, XRP, and Zcash.

Luxor Technology's energy procurement business manages over 75 megawatts of power load across the ERCOT and SPP electricity markets as of October 2026.

Staking and mining income fell 37% during the first half of 2026 while still accounting for approximately 90% of total blockchain infrastructure revenue.

Luxor Technology continues to maintain its Bitcoin mining pool, which recorded an active hashrate of approximately 43.7 EH as of October 2026.

BTCPay Server relies on a decentralized architecture where each business owner hosts its software on a private server and bears independent responsibility for securing their own infrastructure

BTCPay Server patched the August 2026 Lightning Network Daemon credential vulnerability in version 2.4.2 and restricted remote Lightning access following the August 2026 exploit

BTCPay Server hot wallets automatically store seed phrases on internet-connected merchant servers to automatically sign and approve payments without separate device confirmation

BTCPay Server urged operators running older software releases to update their installations to version 2.4.7

BTCPay Server reported that attackers logged in as administrators on compromised servers, while users running version 2.4.7 received no credible reports of hot wallet drains