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Donald Trump Jr.-backed Thumzup Media entering dogecoin mining game in a big way

Thumzup estimates its planned 3,500 dogecoin mining rigs will fetch $22.7 million in annual revenue.

Sage D. Young

On Thursday, Thumzup Media Corporation, backed by Donald Trump Jr., announced plans to increase the total number of dogecoin mining rigs in its operations to 3,500 units, according to its shareholder letter

Thumzup’s pending acquisition of dogecoin mining rigs “marks the company’s entry into the rapidly growing $10.5 billion cryptocurrency mining market, which is projected to reach $22.6 billion by 2035, which is an 8.9% CAGR,” the announcement stated. “Importantly, it should diversify our revenue streams while positioning us as one of the few publicly traded, utility-scale Dogecoin miners.”

Year to date, dogecoin has dropped nearly 32% to trade around the $0.22 level. At this price level and with 3,500 mining rigs, the company is estimated to make $22.7 million in annual revenue. Thumzup Media’s stock dropped on the news and is down nearly 3% as of 11:45 a.m. ET.

The announcement comes as senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas predicts REX Shares and Osprey will be the first to roll out a spot dogecoin ETF by as early as next week. 

REX Shares posted that its spot dogecoin ETF, which will trade under the ticker DOJE, is “coming soon” and will be the first ETF to provide exposure to the cryptocurrency that started off as a satirical joke but has since turned into a massive financial instrument with a market capitalization of nearly $32.9 billion.  

The “40 Act” Balchunas referenced is short for the Investment Company Act of 1940, which focuses on the “disclosure to the investing public of information about the fund and its investment objectives, as well as on investment company structure and operations,” per a blog post from the SEC. 

Meanwhile, CleanCore Solutions started a dogecoin treasury. The firm announced earlier this week a $175 million private placement to adopt dogecoin as its primary treasury reserve. 

The firm also said Alex Spiro, a partner of New York law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who has represented dogecoin enthusiast Elon Musk, will join as the company’s board chairman. 

Shares of CleanCore have dropped more than 56% in the last five days.

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BlackRock’s IBIT on track for its worst month of net outflows, as investors yank $2.3 billion from the bitcoin ETF in November

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, the world’s largest bitcoin fund, is heading for its worst month of outflows since it launched in January 2024.

Investors have pulled over $2.3 billion (net) throughout November so far. The jitters come as bitcoin grapples with its worst downturn since 2022, when the entire crypto world shook following the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX — bitcoin has dropped more than 40% from its October high as of Monday’s close.

With their soaring popularity redefining and legitimizing cryptocurrencies at an institutional level, spot bitcoin ETFs have become a key barometer of wider investor sentiment surrounding the digital currency — as well as risk assets more broadly.

Notably, spot bitcoin ETFs like BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust tend to see their inflows accelerate with rising prices, and amplify falling prices when outflows become dominant. Citi Research, cited by Bloomberg, found that this feedback loop sees a ~3.4% price drop for every $1 billion pulled out from bitcoin ETFs.

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