GM, bitcoiner — November 1, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin ETFs lose $643M after Binance hack, FBI attributes the theft to North Korea, a developer tests eltoo on signet with TEMPLATEHASH and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 1, 2026, 5:02 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $78,042  (+0.87%)
  24h volume  $49.6 bn
  Dominance   60.0%
  Sats / $    1,281

NETWORK
  Block       #974,111
  Hashrate    1,082 EH/s
  Difficulty  +0.28%
  Retarget    11 days
  Halving     527 days  (63.9%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    2 sat/vB
  TX     54,544
  Size   22.0 MB
  Queue  23 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,531 BTC
  Channels  22,680

##Funds & ETFs

###Bitcoin ETFs lose $643M after Binance hack, ending a four-day inflow run

Net outflows of $643.33 million on October 30 erased four straight days of inflows and pushed the week into negative territory. Five funds recorded withdrawals, with no inflows elsewhere to offset them. news.bitcoin.com cryptoslate.com

##Institutions & Treasuries

###Next Technology Holding authorizes selling or pledging its BTC after Binance hack

The 18th-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder approved the possible sale or pledging of about 5,833 BTC following Binance’s security incident, a move the report links to concerns about exchange vulnerabilities. news.bitcoin.com

##Regulation & Policy

###CFTC chair and a US senator offer different responses to Binance’s $6.3B hack

CFTC Chair Selig wants exchanges to volunteer for oversight, while a Republican senator argues Congress already missed its chance to give the industry stronger defenses against thieves. news.bitcoin.com

##Security & Privacy

###umbrelOS 2.0.1 security update addresses Linux kernel flaw CVE-2026-98432

x86 devices, including Umbrel Home and Pro, get a fixed kernel; on Raspberry Pi, where none is available yet, umbrelOS blocks the traffic needed to trigger the flaw. It also fixes a HEIC thumbnail decoder vulnerability and drops recently distrusted certificate authorities. github.com

##Technology & Development

###Developer Aaron Zhang tests eltoo on signet with TEMPLATEHASH, CSFS and INTERNALKEY

A third build of the same three-party channel after Inquisition 29.4 enabled OP_TEMPLATEHASH: a deliberately published stale state was replaced by a newer update. The update script is 10 bytes with a constant 143-byte witness. delvingbitcoin.org delvingbitcoin.org

###Antoine Riard argues BIP54’s time-warp fix would not rule out a forward-blocks design

Responding to an objection raised during BIP54’s design, Riard says a side forward chain would still seem possible if BIP54 activates, and argues the forward blocks idea is cryptoeconomically unsound because transactions are processed twice. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz

###RoboSats v0.8.8-alpha enables Nostr encrypted chat and embeds Tor in its Android app

The alpha also replaces the robot key with a new garage key, verifies payouts against the Lightning node and fixes an XSS bug in order logs; the Alice and Eleuteria coordinators left the federation. github.com

##Community

###Bitcoin white paper turns 18

The nine-page paper proposed a way to send money without a bank; its reach now spans Wall Street funds and government reserves, while who will pay to keep the system secure remains an open question. news.bitcoin.com

##Bitcoin Rap Sheet

###FBI attributes $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea as Trump says US officials are looking into it

Trump also acknowledged Binance’s recovery assurances; the FBI warned of further laundering of the stolen funds. news.bitcoin.com