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In the crypto space, Bitmine — the treasury company backed by analyst Tom Lee — has added another ten thousand three hundred ninety-nine Ethereum tokens to its holdings, pushing its total to nearly five point eight million ETH. The company is explicitly targeting five percent of Ethereum's entire circulating supply, a level of institutional concentration that raises real questions about what that kind of ownership stake means for a network built around decentralization.
On the personnel side, Matt Prusak, president of American Bitcoin — the Eric Trump-backed mining operation — is stepping away to join Giga Energy, an AI power infrastructure firm. The move is a small but telling signal of where the money is flowing right now: away from mining hardware and toward the data centers and energy grids that both crypto and artificial intelligence increasingly depend on.
And rounding out today's headlines, Bluehost CEO Sachin Puri is making a bold prediction — that every small business will eventually run a digital workforce of AI agents capable of multi-step decision-making, not just answering a single prompt. Whether that future arrives on schedule or overshoots its timeline, the underlying shift in how businesses think about automation is already underway.
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