BITMINE'S PAPER LOSS, REAL SHOPPING

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Imagine buying something, keeping it, and watching its resale price drop. You still own it, but it is worth less.

For crypto companies, accounting records that changing value even without a sale.

Bitmine reported a $6.31 billion net loss for the fiscal year ended 31 August 2026. Almost all was on paper: about $6.23 billion came from unrealized cryptocurrency losses.

Ether, Ethereum's digital currency, fell about 44% during that reporting period. Those results do not describe this autumn's prices.

The shopping continued anyway. Bitmine said it held 6,070,092 ether as of 8 November, roughly 4.97% of the circulating supply, after buying another 9,587 ether that week.

Chairman Tom Lee's stated plan is to stop purchases at 5%. That is a plan, not an obligation or a promise of recovery.

My shopping addiction also has a limit. Unfortunately, it keeps arriving by trolley.

Bitmine also earns rewards by staking: putting ether to work helping Ethereum check transactions. That provides income, but does not prevent falling prices from shrinking the holdings' reported value.

The useful distinction: an unrealized loss is not cash disappearing through a sale. It is not imaginary either.

The assets are worth less at the reporting date, and prices can keep changing.

Sources: Bitcoin.com News / The Block / Cointelegraph.

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