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Strategy 8-K: $205M STRC buyback, zero bitcoin
Strategy October 26 8-K reports no bitcoin bought or sold from October 19 to 25, and a $204.9 million STRC repurchase. Holdings stay about 848,517 BTC.
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Strive 8-K: 6,182 BTC buy lifts stack to 43,000
Strive, Inc. bought 6,182 bitcoin at about $82,732 from Oct 17-23, lifting holdings to 43,000 BTC while cash rose. The print is issuance-funded, not a till dump.
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Electrum 4.8.3 patches a live malicious-server RBF trick
Electrum 4.8.3 patches GHSA-6jp4-8v48-cc5v: a malicious server can fake unconfirmed Bitcoin history and bait a fee bump. Upgrade; this is not a seed drain.
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Cboe EDGX copies multi-crypto trust options listing rules
Cboe EDGX October 22 2026 Federal Register notice copies generic options listing criteria for multi-crypto commodity trusts. Immediate effectiveness is plumbing, not a first print.
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Strategy’s 267 BTC is a STRC buyback, not a stack
Strategy's 19 October 2026 Form 8-K shows 267 bitcoin bought for $22.1 million while $193.1 million went into STRC preferred. Holdings stand at 848,517 BTC.
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Bitmine 6.04m ETH is 4.9% of supply, not the 5% close
Bitmine's 19 October 2026 Form 8-K Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.1 mark 6,041,481 ETH as of 18 October 2026 at 3:00pm ET, or 4.9% of a cited 122.1…
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France I-3898: stablecoin swap tax is not law yet
France adopted amendment I-3898 on 16 Oct 2026 by 38-37. Crypto-to-EMT swaps would lose 150 VH bis deferral from 1 Jan 2027, but this is first reading, not…
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Cipher $850M 0% notes fund HPC, not a bitcoin buy
Cipher Digital closed $850.0 million of 0.00% convertible notes due 2032 on 16 October 2026. The 8-K funds HPC and Barber Lake, not a disclosed bitcoin purchase.
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Gemini CFTC consent still binds after SDNY denial
Judge Hellerstein denied Gemini and the CFTC's joint Rule 60 motion on October 15, 2026. The January 6, 2025 $5 million consent order and false-statement injunction still bind…
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MSCI non-operating screen is not a Strategy dump
MSCI will implement a non-operating-company screen in the November 2026 GIMI review, effective at the 30 November close. That is not a same-day deletion of Strategy.