MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Buying Spree Intensifies Post-Nasdaq 100 News

Binance’s SAFU fund now holds about 7,500 BTC, or roughly $580M, after covering hack losses, below its own $800M top-up trigger, with no refill timeline.

Bitcoin fell 2% to under $77,000, wiping out Monday’s bounce, as a chip selloff pushed the Nasdaq 100 into a correction ahead of the US midterms.

Nvidia, Costco, Nike and Micron objected to OKX-ICE’s tokenized stock plans, bringing objectors to 50 as a 30-day response window nears its end.

Morgan Stanley cut Coinbase to underweight and its target to $120 from $258, slashing 2027 revenue by 28% as crypto trading slows after the Binance hack.

North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit, blamed by the FBI for the Binance hack, may have just a dozen members and could fund nearly half of Pyongyang’s weapons.

BTCPay Server urged users to switch off their servers after reports that attackers drained merchants’ bitcoin hot wallets, apparently on versions before 2.4.2.

Binance processed $4.65 billion of withdrawals and $1.01 billion of deposits as it reopened after its $6.3 billion hack, a 2.1% net drain on its assets.

Bitcoin rose about 1% to roughly $78,600, its third straight daily gain, as Zcash jumped 3% and US stock futures rebounded ahead of Tuesday’s midterms.

US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $643.3 million Friday, the most since June 25, leaving 2026 barely positive as BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC led outflows.

Three Wall Street firms say the Binance hack won’t derail crypto’s recovery and urge buying Coinbase, Robinhood and Strategy on weakness.