The acquisition, disclosed by the company last week, represents Bitmine’s largest ether purchase of the year in token terms. Based on current market prices, the transaction was valued at approximately $140 million.
Arthur Hayes argues that quiet liquidity expansion by the Federal Reserve and Japan’s central bank could push Bitcoin beyond $124,000 and toward $200,000 in 2026, while fueling selective altcoin rotation.
One of the most notable trends is the broadening scope of investor portfolios. The average Indian investor now holds five tokens instead of the two or three common in 2022, reflecting a shift toward research-driven diversification.
“By linking Bitcoin’s strength with Ethereum’s flexibility, and eventually with other networks, we are creating a framework where communities can grow together,” he said. “This is how Bitcoin becomes more accessible, more useful, and more impactful for the entire crypto economy.”
Using Shutter Network’s threshold encryption, over 250 community-submitted entries were sealed on-chain in a fully trustless manner. Neither the developers nor contributors can access the contents until the decryption threshold is triggered, ensuring an immutable and tamper-proof archive.
“As projects evolve and mature, it is natural for visions to evolve, and sometimes diverge. With this in mind, I can no longer contribute to Polygon to the best of my abilities,” he wrote. “That said, I remain confident that Polygon leadership is committed to the success of the project. I’ll always be cheering from the sidelines, and supporting however and whenever I can.”
Published in a detailed blog post on Sunday, Buterin’s proposal outlines a model that would allow node operators to store only the subset of Ethereum data most relevant to them, rather than the full 1.3 terabytes (TB) of data required for operating a full node today.
