GM, bitcoiner — October 26, 2026

Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin’s 7-day hashrate back at 1 ZH/s after nearly 8 months, US spot bitcoin ETFs snap a two-week outflow streak with $301M, a proposed Lightning option for K-of-N nodes and other bitcoin news

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As of Oct 26, 2026, 5:01 AM EDT

MARKET
  Price       $80,189  (-0.17%)
  24h volume  $19.3 bn
  Dominance   60.1%
  Sats / $    1,247

NETWORK
  Block       #973,216
  Hashrate    1,085 EH/s
  Difficulty  +6.11%
  Retarget    3 days
  Halving     533 days  (63.4%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     50,282
  Size   23.9 MB
  Queue  24 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  4,798 BTC
  Channels  40,664

Mining

Bitcoin’s 7-day hashrate returns to 1 ZH/s after nearly 8 months

Miners are again performing more than 1 sextillion calculations per second to secure the network and compete for newly minted bitcoin. news.bitcoin.com

Paolo Ardoino wants AI to run Bitcoin mines

The MDK v0.11 reference agent requires human approval, while site identity and command controls determine who may act. cryptoslate.com

Lightning & L2

Dave Lund proposes a Lightning channel option toward K-of-N nodes

The option_independent_secrets add-on (bits 266/267) drops the shachain requirement so signers can jointly generate per-commitment secrets. Prototyped in lnd and Core Lightning forks on BLAKE2b Bitcoin, not SHA256d Bitcoin; he says the code should carry over largely as is. delvingbitcoin.org delvingbitcoin.org

Funds & ETFs

US spot Bitcoin ETFs break two-week outflow streak with $301M in net inflows

A strong three-day start to the week gave way to heavy withdrawals before the week closed with net inflows. cointelegraph.com

Regulation & Policy

Bank of Israel rejects Netanyahu’s plan to use crypto to evade sanctions

The central bank said Israel should focus on preventing possible international sanctions rather than seeking ways around them; Netanyahu said there were alternatives to crypto to achieve the same goal. news.bitcoin.com

Security & Privacy

MyNode v0.3.51 installs the NodeJS fix for CVE-2026-111497

RTL, Thunderhub and other apps run on NodeJS. Upgrade via Settings or the upgrade script; 32-bit devices and Debian 10 stay on NodeJS 18, which won’t get the fix, so MyNode advises reflashing with the latest image. x.com docs.mynodebtc.com

Rage Weekly 43/26: a roundup on financial surveillance

This week’s links include Netanyahu being rebuked over a plan to use crypto to bypass economic sanctions and Sen. Blumenthal seeking answers from Tether over payments. therage.co

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