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Grant Cardone: “Don’t Compare Me to Michael Saylor” • Billionaire real estate investor Grant Cardone explains why his Bitcoin strategy is fundamentally different from Michael Saylor’s. • By combining income-producing real estate with Bitcoin, Cardone believes he can transform traditional property investments into assets that perform more like tech companies. • Full interview below #Bitcoin

Bitcoin breaks below $80,000 to its lowest level in over a month 👀 #Bitcoin

🇺🇸 COINDESK: BITCOIN'S MIDTERM BOTTOM PATTERN MAY NOT REPEAT Bitcoin's last three bear-market lows came about 71, 38 and 13 days after the 2014, 2018 and 2022 US midterms, CoinDesk reports. This year's low of $57,850 came on July 1, about 125 days before the Nov. 3 vote. By Oct. 22, Bitcoin had recovered about 40%, to roughly $81,455. CoinDesk says Bitcoin's midterm weakness looks tied more to its own market cycles than to elections. If the July low holds, traders waiting for a post-election bottom have already missed a 40% rebound. The vote is in 11 days.

Gold just fell below the critical $4,000 level. Gold is now officially underperforming Bitcoin in 2026. Year-to-date performance: 🥇 Gold: -7.43% ₿ Bitcoin: -6.89% Despite Bitcoin’s volatility, gold has now posted the worse performance of the two assets this year.

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Strategy spent $22.1 million on bitcoin last week and $193.1 million buying back its own STRC preferred stock. That is nearly nine times more on the buyback than on the 267 BTC it added between Oct. 12 and 18, at an average of $82,900 per coin. Holdings now stand at 848,517 BTC, funded this round by selling 140,872 common shares. The board also raised its digital credit buyback authorization from $2 billion to $3 billion.

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ST. LOUIS FEDERAL RESERVE WEBSITE DOWN AMID REPORTS OF CRITICAL PHP VULNERABILITY The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s economic research website, which hosts the widely used FRED economic database, is currently displaying a maintenance notice. The outage comes amid reports of a PHP security vulnerability, although the Fed has not confirmed whether the two are connected.

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Metaplanet is about to control a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company. Super League shareholders approved the deal on October 16, clearing Metaplanet to contribute 2,100 BTC and $2.5 million in cash for 44.86 million shares at $3 each. The company becomes Superplanet, ticker SUPA, with Metaplanet owning more than 90% under a five-year lock-up. The point is dollar funding. Superplanet plans to buy more bitcoin with perpetual preferred stock, the same tool Strategy uses. Closing is expected in the fourth quarter.

NEW: With the Clarity Act stalled, regulators are writing digital asset market rules on their own. The CFTC has opened comment on a framework for retail digital asset trading under its existing authority, including a new exchange category called a crypto asset market. Comments close December 14. The SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets closes its comment window October 20. Agency rules move faster than Congress, but they can be challenged in court or reversed by a future commission. A durable framework still needs legislation.

🇺🇸 BLACKROCK FILES FOR A BITCOIN ETF THAT LIMITS LOSSES, BUILT ON ITS $65 BILLION IBIT The proposed iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF (PBIT) would use options on IBIT to cap each tranche's maximum loss at roughly 10% before fees, in exchange for capping how much of bitcoin's upside holders keep. Fees and cap levels are still blank in the filing. It's built for the cautious advisers and retirement money that have stayed away from bitcoin because of the swings.

NEW: Charles Schwab clients can now buy bitcoin in the same account that holds their index funds. CEO Rick Wurster says that all clients can access Schwab Crypto, ending a rollout that began in the spring. Trades cost 0.75%, with Paxos handling execution and sub-custody. New York and Louisiana are excluded. Inbound transfers are rolling out, so existing holders can move coins in. Wurster called Bitcoin a new transaction-based revenue stream, which tells you how the biggest brokers now see bitcoin.

NEW: Binance is shutting down its bitcoin mining pool on November 10, and most of the hashrate had already left. Binance Pool directed about 26 EH/s in December, roughly 2.3% of the network, per Hashrate Index. It now sits near 9.2 EH/s, under 1%. Remaining miners have four weeks to point their machines elsewhere. The bigger question is where that hash lands. Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool already produce about 64% of blocks. Pools choose which transactions go into blocks, so every exit narrows that choice.

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TRUMP SAYS HE IS IN PROCESS OF NEGOTIATING PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA, UKRAINE President Trump says imposing additional sanctions on Russia could undermine negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, insisting that progress is being made. Trump also criticized Ukrainian President Zelenskyy for targeting Russian diesel refineries, arguing the attacks are disrupting global fuel markets and hurting American farmers and businesses. “I WANT THIS WAR END!” Trump declared, adding that he could sign the sanctions legislation at a later date.

US HOME FORECLOSURES SURGE 42% YEAR-OVER-YEAR U.S. lenders repossessed 5,794 homes in August 2026, up 42% from a year earlier and 22% from July, according to ATTOM. Total foreclosure filings reached 40,277 properties, up 13% year-over-year, while new foreclosure proceedings increased 7% nationally. Several states recorded significantly larger annual increases in foreclosure starts: 🇺🇸 Tennessee: +145% 🇺🇸 Oklahoma: +102% 🇺🇸 Mississippi: +69% 🇺🇸 Arkansas: +66% 🇺🇸 Michigan: +50%

$81.5K feels like a key level for Bitcoin. Will it hold?