Exhibit 99.2
Bitmine
Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR)
Chairman’s
Message — July 2026
“Ethereum
is the Cure for the Uncanny Valley of Wealth”
Video
Transcript
Tom
Lee: Hi there, this is Tom Lee. I’m the Chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies, ticker BMNR, and this is our Chairman’s
Message for July 2026. The title of this message is “Ethereum is the Cure for the Uncanny Valley of Wealth.” Here are some
disclaimers, and here’s a brief outline, it’s in three parts.
Part
one, there have been macro headwinds in early 2026, but we believe there are signs of a bottom in crypto. So you may be wondering, why
is crypto so weak, especially considering that in 2022, during that crypto bear market, there was a huge amount of deleveraging, a huge
amount of regulatory headwinds, and a downturn in activity.
In
2026, the headwinds have been, number one, monetary policy flipped from dovish to hawkish. And what I mean by that is, at the start of
this year, the bond market was pricing in two cuts from the Fed. But because of the Iran war, and partly from AI spending, that’s
now shifted to 1.6 hikes. So the bond market has removed four cuts from 2026. That’s a lot of tightening. That being said, I think
the bond market is going to start pricing in cuts this year. One of the reasons is because inflation is pretty weak, look at the June
Core CPI, which came out on July 14th. That number for Core was negative for the month. There was actually deflation in the U.S. It’s
been a long time since Core CPI has had deflation. And in general, we believe the inflation story is much weaker than many people believe.
The
second is the Clarity Act. That’s an important act. It’s in limbo. That provides a framework so that we know which regulatory
body can set national policy for crypto, in this case it’s the CFTC. But the prediction markets only see a 44% chance the Clarity
Act gets signed into law, which is below 50%. Insiders in the industry think it’s much higher. So, for instance, Coinbase’s
vice chairman thinks we’re at the one-yard line. And Senator Cynthia Lummis, who has been working tirelessly on this, believes
that we are at the point where they’re going to land the plane.
The
third has been AI FOMO. In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of AI stocks have done very well, and 86% of all venture dollars this
year have gone into AI. That’s siphoning money away from crypto. But things may be changing. For instance, Chamath [Palihapitiya]
on CNBC said, “I think you’re going to start to see a little bit of the wheels come off of AI spending and profits.”
Well, when that starts to cool, that’s good for crypto.
The
fourth is the crypto sector depends on the financial sector as the umbrella. And if you look at the S&P 500 sectors year to date,
leading year to date are things like memory, tech, semis, energy, and materials, all related to the AI supply chain. And financials are
one of the worst sectors year to date. So that acts as a headwind for crypto.
But
we believe crypto spring is here, and it’s not a straight line higher. DeMark Analytics and Tom DeMark, who is our timing advisor
for market purchases of crypto, believes everything appears to be in order for a market bottom and that the Ethereum risk-reward is to
the upside. These are pretty constructive comments. He’s citing the 1987 analog, Ethereum today looks a lot like the S&P in
1987. And as you can see, in 1987, over the next month, the S&P recovered nicely. This implies 2,200 for Ethereum in August.
Steve
Suttmeier, former Bank of America technical strategist, actually put out an alert. He says ETH is stabilizing on a tactical basis, and
he believes that if we can clear several key levels, we can see 2,225 to 2,239, very similar to Tom DeMark’s targets in about a
month.
Now,
you might say, well, let’s say crypto is bottoming. You also have to believe in a future. And I think the future market for Ethereum
is exponential. Here’s some wisdom from Warren Buffett in his 1987 shareholder letter. He said, “The market may ignore business
success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.” Well, ETH currently, I think, is in its 1.0 phase, and it’s transitioning
to 2.0. In the 1.0 phase, Ethereum had the ICO boom and the NFT boom, that brought Ethereum to almost 5,000 in 2022. And then in the
last 18 months, we had ETFs and stablecoins, and that brought Ethereum almost to 5,000. But that was the 1.0, and currently Ethereum
is in a drawdown. Many people are going to look at ETH here and say, look, the top of the range is 5,000, and they don’t see further
upside. But I’m going to disagree. I think people are rage quitting at the bottom for Ethereum here.
Why
am I saying that? Well, unlike the crypto bear market of 2022, Wall Street is building on Ethereum. There have been major tokenization
wins over the past 12 months, BlackRock’s BUIDL, JPMorgan’s MONY, Securitize has continued to have a lot of success, Ondo
Finance as well. And there have been a lot of Layer 2 wins, Robinhood’s chain, Coinbase, Kraken’s Ink. But maybe the most
notable breakout is Robinhood Chain, built on Arbitrum this year. Vlad [Tenev], who runs Robinhood, believes that everything running
on traditional rails will eventually become on-chain, tokenized. Now, that’s a view that we hold as well, but that’s a big
deal. And Robinhood Chain, which just launched in July, has now processed more volume than many crypto exchanges, on July 9th it was
560 million. That’s already crossed a billion as of today. In fact, as we point out, Robinhood Chain is a big deal because it uses
ETH as the native gas token. The transaction fees are denominated in ETH, and they settle on the Ethereum L1. Guess what? That sounds
like ETH is money. That’s why I think this is important, Robinhood Chain is making ETH money. And here are a bunch of other bullet
points, but let me just highlight again: Robinhood Chain uses ETH as its native gas token. And it’s not just real-world assets
that work well on this chain, it’s memes as well.
Ethereum
also, unlike the 2022 bear market, has a continued deep and growing developer bench. There are nearly six thousand developers on the
EVM stack, or Ethereum, that’s more than all the other chains listed on this table. And by continent, and this is data from Electric
Capital, Ethereum is the number one ecosystem in Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and South America. So again, I’m going to
come back to this statement from Warren Buffett from 1987: “The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually
will confirm it.”
So
what does this mean for ETH 2.0? Well, let’s look at Amazon as an analog. Amazon 1.0 saw Amazon, from 1998 to 2010 — a 13-year
period — be stuck at a $6 peak for 12 years. And in the middle of that period, AWS was launched, which was a huge deal, because
over the next 12 years AWS became massive, along with Prime Day, Amazon Studios, and their AI focus. But look what happened to the stock.
Amazon 2.0, the stock went from $6 to $241.
Look
at NVIDIA and their transition from a 1.0 company to a 2.0. In that 17-year period listed here, NVIDIA had the CUDA platform, which was
actually an important programming language that’s still what’s used for GPUs today, and it’s the main reason why NVIDIA
has almost a near monopoly on high-end AI chips. And then in the 2014 period, their chips were used by crypto miners. Yet NVIDIA stock
basically kept peaking at a dollar. Then NVIDIA 2.0, ChatGPT was launched in late 2022, Blackwell got announced in 2024, and the rest
is history. The stock went from $1 to $197, almost a 200x, as NVIDIA went to 2.0.
And
the final example I’m going to give you, as addressable markets expand, is JPMorgan. JPMorgan, over this 30-year period, transformed.
Now, keep in mind, the JPMorgan of today is not the JPMorgan that saved America in 1907. Actually, the JPMorgan of today started off
as Chase. Chase acquired Chemical and Manufacturers Hanover Bank. In the year 2000, Chase acquired J.P. Morgan. And then over the next
15 years, it acquired Bear Stearns, Bank One, Washington Mutual. But despite all that — you can see these acquisitions here. JPMorgan
was stuck and peaked at around $70. But with the acquisitions of J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, Chase became a truly global bank. And
as you can see, the 2.0 played out over the next 15 years, and JPMorgan’s stock went from $58 to $334. So you can see, when the
addressable market increases, the asset price rises. And sometimes it takes time.
Well,
that’s why I’m talking about ETH because ETH 2.0 is the period when Ethereum not only becomes central to a lot of growth
vectors, but ETH the asset becomes money.
So
the first thing that’s going to drive this is that we are in a new foundation era. The Ethereum Foundation, which is a nonprofit,
is still central to a lot of the core for Ethereum, but it’s not the only story. In fact, today, given regulations, it may no longer
be necessary to have nonprofit foundations.
The
second is agentic AI is becoming an important crypto story. Now, you might wonder, how is this possibly a crypto story? Let me explain.
I believe in the next few years there’s going to be something that people talk about called the uncanny valley of wealth. Japanese
roboticist Masahiro Mori, in 1970, published an essay titled “The Uncanny Valley,” and what he was referring to is the hypothesis
that you get unsettled when a robot looks too human. I think that’s going to happen in the agentic world. And what do I mean by
that? Well, consider the x-axis being the percentage of wealth created by AI, and the y-axis is your satisfaction with AI. AI today can
do complex reasoning, multitasking, agentic trading. Generally, that’s good progress, and we’re satisfied, it actually helps
our lives. And it may start to have a machine-to-machine economy, and it might be a rising share of income, but we’ll still be
satisfied because we’re making more money. But at some point, AI could actually be wealthier than us. Yes, I’m saying in
the future there could be a date, and it may not be far away, that your agent produces more income than you personally produce. I think
at that point you’re going to wonder if you work for AI. Let me explain okay. And I think it’s going to give you a fear of
the future. What could this AI do? Well, in the future, if you give too much authority and delegate too much authority, they could send
unauthorized emails. They could take over our bank accounts. They could take over our social media. They could take over our assets.
They could actually get us fired from our job. And maybe they create their own banking system. In fact, Stanford grads walked out of
their commencement when the CEO of Google took the stage. And there are already hundreds of thousands of members of anti-AI groups, including
a group called the Zizians, which has actually already murdered people. Does this remind you of The Terminator, and Sarah Connor, and
Skynet? Well, that movie is 40 years old. And we already know that non-humans are the majority share of Polymarket trading, web traffic,
emails. You can see non-humans are an increasing share of all content created. And that’s why Marc Andreessen of a16z said that
the grand unification is of AI and crypto. AI agents are going to need money.
And
so we would argue that blockchain is the barrier between humans and AI. First of all, if it’s not blockchains, I don’t think
we’re going to trust governments, we won’t trust financial institutions, and we won’t trust tech companies, because
all three of those could be taken over by AI. I think it’s a smart contract blockchain. And if that’s the case, then we’ll
be satisfied when AI can produce a lot of income, because humanity will ultimately win.
The
third driver of ETH 2.0 is that ETH is going to be the settlement layer for finance. We’ve already seen a lot of the Ethereum spin-offs
from the Foundation, ETH Labs, Ethereum Institutional, ETH Systems, all driving this future. And finally, I think we’re going to
conclude that ETH is money, because if you’re going to hold it for transaction fees and as working capital, that’s what makes
ETH money.
Now,
I want to get to this point, because you might be skeptical of the future of how crypto plays a role. But let me play a clip. This is
from 1995, Bill Gates talking to David Letterman about the internet. But you’ve got to listen to this. It’s about a minute.
[Begin
video clip — Late Show with David Letterman, 1995]
David
Letterman: And what about this internet thing? Do you know anything about that? [laughter]
Bill
Gates: Sure.
David
Letterman: What the hell is that exactly?
Bill
Gates: Well, it’s become a place where people are publishing information. So everybody can have their own homepage. Companies
are there — the latest information. It’s wild what’s going on. You can send electronic mail to people. It is the big
new thing.
David
Letterman: Yeah. But you know, it’s easy to criticize something you don’t fully understand, which is my position here.
Bill
Gates: Go ahead.
David
Letterman: But I can remember a couple of months ago, there was like a big breakthrough announcement that on the internet, or on
some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game — you could listen to a baseball game on your computer. And I
just thought to myself, does radio ring a bell? You know what I mean?
Bill
Gates: There’s a difference.
David
Letterman: There is a difference. It’s not a huge difference. What is the difference?
Bill
Gates: But you can listen to the baseball game whenever you want to.
David
Letterman: Oh, I see. So it’s stored in one of your memory deals.
Bill
Gates: Exactly.
David
Letterman: That’s the way you talked about earlier. Yeah. Do tape recorders ring a bell? [laughter]
[End
video clip]
Tom
Lee: You get the point. In 1995, the earliest days of the internet, people were skeptical. And I think people are going to be skeptical
about a future where you need crypto to protect you from AI, and where ETH is money because it’s the future settlement rails. But
just follow with me. In that future, what is Ethereum worth? If it’s 1,800 today, is it worth 25,000, 75,000, or even higher? Well,
Joe Lubin, one of the co-creators of Ethereum, thinks Ethereum is going to 100x when that future arrives. That’s 250,000. And Etherealize
published a big piece earlier this year about a path to 250,000, they view Ethereum as productive money. Where do I land? I don’t
know. But let’s say that it’s a 2.0, like Amazon, NVIDIA, and JPMorgan, radical upside from here. But again, 1,800 to 250,000
is roughly 100x.
And
the question is, well, what is Bitmine’s role? Well, Bitmine, again, is the largest Ethereum treasury. We believe we’re primed
for the next bull cycle. Bitmine just celebrated its first 12 months of operations. Bitmine was created on June 30, 2025. And in the
first year, Bitmine reached 5.74 million ETH, 4.8% of the supply, launched MAVAN the Made in America VAlidator Network, the largest single
staking operator in the world, bigger than anyone today, and that was built in 12 months. We’ve made several moonshot investments,
including Beast Industries, Eightco, A+, and others. We partnered with the Ethereum Foundation 2.0. The first one was ETH Labs, we’re
the lead investor. The second was Ethereum Institutional, we were the lead investor. And the third one is ETH Systems, which is building
confidential systems for institutional Ethereum, and again, we’re the lead investor. So for each of the three key spinoffs from
the Ethereum Foundation, Bitmine acted as the lead investor. You might wonder why. The reason being, we can be the neutral layer. We
are neutral capital. We are not selling products to any of these end users. We just want to strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem, which
in turn helps the price of Bitmine.
Bitmine
also launched its first preferred stock offering under the ticker BMNP. It has a current yield below that of STRC, which is MicroStrategy’s
perpetual preferred. This instrument was launched at $80 on June 9th, and as you can see, it currently trades at $86. So the price has
increased on this 9.5% perpetual preferred. And Bitmine had two other accomplishments: we got uplisted to the big board, the New York
Stock Exchange, which is the most prestigious exchange in the world, and we were added to the Russell 1000 large-cap index. That is the
most widely used benchmark for institutional investors and hedge funds, meaning more than a thousand financial institutions will now
have to consider whether or not they want to have benchmark exposure to Bitmine. And that’s not even counting the numerous hundreds
of thousands of wealth managers that also use the Russell 1000.
So
what are our goals for the foreseeable future? We’ve got many, but the four I probably want to talk about are: one, we want to
slowly reach 5% of the Ethereum supply. We’ve talked about slowing our buying. Part of it is that the Ethereum Foundation is in
transition, they’re shrinking their role. And we spoke to many people at the Foundation, and at the moment, I think we shouldn’t
try to accelerate and have more concentration beyond 5%. The second is that we want to fund any additional key Ethereum Foundation spins,
including key partners and public goods. That’s important because we are the neutral and somewhat, arguably, permanent capital
within crypto. Three, we want to identify and invest in financial services and crypto unicorns. And the reason I’m saying financial
services and crypto unicorns is, as Vlad Tenev at Robinhood said, in the future, financial rails and crypto rails are the same. And more
and more assets are going to be running on these rails. So we don’t want to, quote, focus solely on crypto unicorns, because there
may be some really big opportunities in financial services. And finally, we want to strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem.
Now,
what does this mean for the stock price? Well, the x-axis here is Ethereum’s price, and the y-axis is Bitmine’s share price.
The correlation is 90%. So our future price for Bitmine stock is heavily dependent on the future price of Ethereum. And here’s
a range of prices. I’m going to highlight the 250,000 level, because that’s the fully realized view that ETH is money, from
Joe Lubin and Etherealize. And as you can see, that would imply significant upside for Bitmine’s share price.
So
to leave you with some wisdom: as the late Charlie Munger, who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, said, “The big money is
not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.” And to us, we’re waiting as we watch Ethereum 2.0 unfold.
This
is the Bitmine management team, and thank you for listening.
Exhibit 99.3
Bitmine
Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Releases July Chairman’s Message: “ETH is the cure for the ‘Uncanny Valley of Wealth’”
Bitmine
owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million
Bitmine
is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 12 months
Bitmine
was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026
Bitmine’s
Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP
Bitmine
remains supported by a premier group of institutional investors including ARK’s Cathie Wood, MOZAYYX, Founders Fund, Bill Miller
III, Pantera, Kraken, DCG, Galaxy Digital and personal investor Thomas “Tom” Lee to support Bitmine’s goal of acquiring
5% of ETH
NORWALK,
CT, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company”)
a Bitcoin and Ethereum Network company with a focus on the accumulation of crypto for long term investment, today announced the release
of the July Chairman’s Message titled “ETH is the cure for the ‘Uncanny Valley of Wealth.’”
This
Chairman message explains the Company’s belief that Ethereum is a critical interface to protect humans from the downstream implications
of the increasing capabilities of AI and the resulting growing economic influence:
| ● | The
‘Uncanny Valley of Wealth’ is the notion that humans will ultimately become unsettled
by the growing economic and social power of an economy increasingly fueled by agentic-AI
and soon, machine-to-machine. |
| ● | This
is a variant of the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 who published the essay “Uncanny
Valley.” His hypothesis describes the unsettling feeling people often get when they
encounter something that looks almost human. |
| ● | Crypto
faced macro headwinds in 2026 including bond markets pricing a “hawkish” flip
by global central banks, the slow progress of the Clarity Act, AI outperformance (aka FOMO,
or fear of missing out) and underperformance of financials. As we move through 2026, we believe
many of these headwinds could turn into tailwinds. |
| ● | While
many simply say just attribute this to ‘crypto winter,’ 2026 has seen much positive
fundamental progress including many banks announcing tokenization of assets, new Ethereum
Layer 2 (L2) launches, such as Robinhood Chain. This is a contrast to the 2018 and 2022 crypto
winters where regulatory headwinds and collapse of crypto institutions marked those declines. |
| ● | The
Chairman believes that Ethereum is positioned to benefit from two exponential drivers of
Wall Street building rails on blockchain and agentic-AI (as discussed above). |
| ● | The
Chairman also discusses how Bitmine is positioning itself strategically for the important
drivers of the next crypto upcycle supporting key infrastructure partners and strengthening
the Ethereum ecosystem. |
The
Chairman’s message can be found here:
https://www.Bitminetech.io/chairmans-message
The
Fiscal Full Year 2025 Earnings presentation and corporate presentation can be found here:
https://Bitminetech.io/investor-relations/
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About
Bitmine
Bitmine
(NYSE: BMNR) is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the US. The company is deploying its excess capital to be the leading Ethereum Treasury
company in the world, implementing an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. Guided
by its philosophy of “the alchemy of 5%,” the Company is committed to ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset, leveraging
native protocol-level activities including staking and decentralized finance mechanisms. The Company launched MAVAN (Made-in America
VAlidator Network), a dedicated staking infrastructure for Bitmine assets, in 2026.
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Forward
Looking Statements
This
press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements which
involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as “expects,” “projects,”
“projected,” “intends,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” and similar
expressions. This document specifically contains forward-looking statements regarding: (i) the Company’s goals regarding ETH acquisition,
including the “Alchemy of 5%” initiative and the expectation that Bitmine will reach this goal sometime in 2026; (ii) the
Company’s beliefs and expectations regarding the cryptocurrency market, including the belief that macro headwinds faced by crypto
in 2026 could turn into tailwinds; (iii) the Company’s belief that Ethereum is a critical interface to protect humans from downstream
implications of the increasing capabilities of AI, including the “Uncanny Valley of Wealth” thesis regarding the growing
economic and social power of an economy increasingly fueled by agentic-AI; (iv) the Chairman’s belief that Ethereum is positioned
to benefit from two exponential drivers of Wall Street building rails on blockchain and agentic-AI; (v) the Company’s belief regarding
the positioning of Bitmine for the important drivers of the next crypto upcycle, including supporting key infrastructure partners and
strengthening the Ethereum ecosystem; and (vi) the future growth and advancement of the Company’s Ethereum treasury strategy. In
evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including: Bitmine’s ability to keep pace with
new technology and changing market needs; Bitmine’s ability to finance its current business, Ethereum treasury operations, and
proposed future business; the competitive environment of Bitmine’s business; market conditions affecting the trading price of the
Company’s common stock and Series A Preferred Stock; regulatory developments affecting digital assets, including the ultimate enactment
and implementation of the GENIUS Act and other pending legislation and SEC initiatives; the volatility and unpredictability of digital
asset prices; the performance, reliability, and security of the Company’s staking operations; risks related to AI systems and their
impact on cryptocurrency markets; and the future value of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Actual future performance outcomes and results may differ
materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of
which are beyond Bitmine’s control, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of Bitmine’s Form 10-K filed with
the SEC on November 21, 2025, as well as all other SEC filings, as amended or updated from time to time. Copies of Bitmine’s filings
with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Bitmine undertakes no obligation to update these statements for
revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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