The Long Investor
Airline Captain & Investment Analyst, Technical/Fundamental Analysis
Bitmine's new Ethereum staking locks more supply and signals institutional conviction. It staked 159,728 ETH, worth about $390 million, on October 20-21, bringing total staked holdings to about 5.23 million ETH. The view is cautiously bullish, without chasing: a daily close above $2,500 could target the 30-day average at $2,579, while a drop below $2,380 signals renewed weakness. x.comÂ
Tokenization, stablecoins and perpetual futures are driving Ethereum and ETH proxies such as BitMine higher. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated Overweight on BitMine with a $63.60 target, 137% upside. BitMine now holds 4.9% of all ETH, nearly at Fundstrat's 5% goal. x.comÂ
BitMine Immersion Technologies holds about $16 billion of Ethereum and faces massive losses as liquidity drains from crypto. Like Strategy, it is exposed to a collapse in crypto values. x.comÂ
BitMine Immersion broke its downtrend this week for the first time since the crypto-treasury bubble popped in August 2025. Owning it below $20 should look prudent once Ethereum hits its expected targets over the next few years. x.comÂ
BitMine Immersion has plenty of upside as the largest publicly traded holder of Ethereum, with about 5.8 million ETH, roughly 4.8% of total supply, as ether jumped 20% in two days. x.comÂ
Crypto treasury companies are stalling because the buyers of last resort have stopped buying and started paying out. Strategy trades below the value of its own bitcoin and is now selling BTC to cover dividends. BitMine is down 86% and $9 billion underwater on its Ethereum, no longer raising capital, just paying out. Neither was ever a clean crypto bet; each was a leveraged premium dressed up as one. x.comÂ
BitMine's buybacks below NAV should drastically boost shareholder value while its larger staked ETH position increases potential staking income. Its mNAV is about 0.88x; it repurchased 22.9 million shares for $399.6 million in 2026. It holds 6.05 million ETH, with about 5.23 million staked, and projects $318 million in annualized staking revenue. x.com x.comÂ
Ethereum's upside looks worth the bet because the payoff to its prior high is much larger than the downside, and buyers still respond to good news. There is roughly 16% down to $1,950 versus a little over 2x back to the prior all-time high. LIT caught a sharp bid around its US regulatory plans, and CHIP rallied 40% around a $1 million buyback; that response looks like a bull-market sign. x.comÂ
Accelerating stock tokenization is a reason to be bullish on Ether and BitMine. Per @KobeissiLetter, on-chain tokenized stocks reached a record $1.6 billion market cap, up 240% year to date, trading volumes on major venues have roughly tripled, and Bloomberg reports the SEC is preparing a framework for tokenized stock trading. x.comÂ
BitMine's re-rating case is its staking revenue, not the size of its ether pile. About 84% of its ether is staked, throwing off roughly $330M a year in real revenue. Per its August 24 update, BitMine holds 5,847,611 ETH within $14.9 billion of crypto and other holdings. x.comÂ