{"id":48729,"date":"2026-11-09T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=48729"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:11:21","slug":"bitmine-just-bought-another-9500-eth-as-tom-lee-backs-buterins-ethereum-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=48729","title":{"rendered":"BitMine Just Bought Another 9,500 ETH as Tom Lee Backs Buterin&#8217;s Ethereum Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBitMine&#8217;s seven-day staking yield fell to 2.65% from 3.03% in a week, cutting Tom Lee&#8217;s estimations to $309 million from $358 million.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>BitMine\u2019s crypto, cash, and equity holdings fell to $14.3 billion, the lowest weekly total since mid-August, the company said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cash and marketable securities fell to $475 million, the seventh weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/bitmine-immersion-technologies-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-6-07-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash--marketable-securities-holdings-of-14-3-billion-302932890.html\" target=\"_blank\">drop<\/a> in a row from $714 million on September 20. Besides Ether (ETH) and cash, the company held 216 Bitcoin (BTC), a $180 million stake in Beast Industries and a $75 million position in Eightco Holdings (ORBS).<\/p>\n<p>A week earlier, BitMine\u2019s holdings totaled $14.5 billion, most of which was ETH, which the company marked at $2,234 per token using Coinbase prices, down from $2,261.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"staking-yield-falls-to-2-65\">Staking Yield Falls to 2.65%<\/h2>\n<p>The company bought 9,587 ETH in the week to November 8, bringing its treasury to 6,070,092 tokens, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmines-eth-stash-hits-6-06-million-as-tom-lee-reaffirms-crypto-bull-market-is-still-alive\/\">larger<\/a> purchase than the 8,573 ETH BitMine added a week earlier.\u00a0It now owns 4.97% of the 122.2 million ETH in supply, against its goal of 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on, BitMine reported 5,227,037 ETH staked, or 86% of its treasury, a count that has not moved since BitMine\u2019s staked ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmine-resumes-massive-stock-buybacks-while-staking-5-23-million-eth\/\">rose<\/a> in the week to October 25. Before that rise, it sat at 5,067,309 in every weekly update from August 9 to October 18.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Tom Lee put annualized staking revenue at $309 million on the ETH staked today. He\u2019s using a projection based on BitMine\u2019s trailing seven-day staking yield of 2.65%. A week earlier, he cited a 3.03% yield and $358 million.<\/p>\n<p>Fully staked, Lee said, the treasury would earn $359 million a year at the new yield. Last week\u2019s release put that figure at $415 million.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"you-may-also-like\" class=\"heading-4\">You may also like:<\/h3>\n<h2 id=\"bitmines-lee-cites-buterins-store-of-value-call\">BitMine\u2019s Lee Cites Buterin\u2019s Store-of-Value Call<\/h2>\n<p>Lee led his comments in the release with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, referencing Buterin\u2019s statements at Devcon 8, held in Mumbai from November 3 to 6, that ETH is a store of value and is money.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis declaration by the founder of Ethereum, in my view, is a seismic shift, clarifying how ETH will capture value in this coming supercycle of tokenization and AI,\u201d Lee stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/2119401255919604064\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> that ETH\u2019s case as a fee-burning token was never as strong as it seemed, and argued that optimizing ETH as a fee-burning token would be very hard to square with decentralization and capture resistance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<!-- Footer ad [js] --><\/p>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/servedbyadbutler.com\/go2\/;ID=183000;size=0x0;setID=1321375\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmine-just-bought-another-9500-eth-as-tom-lee-backs-buterins-ethereum-vision\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; BitMine&#8217;s seven-day staking yield fell to 2.65% from 3.03% in a week, cutting Tom Lee&#8217;s estimations to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}