GM, bitcoiner — November 4, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: Binance says a fake job interview led to its $6.3 billion hack, Moscow Exchange plans bitcoin trading in December, Tether CEO says it holds 150,000 bitcoin and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 4, 2026, 5:02 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $78,313  (+1.74%)
  24h volume  $31.2 bn
  Dominance   60.0%
  Sats / $    1,277

NETWORK
  Block       #974,515
  Hashrate    1,024 EH/s
  Difficulty  -2.56%
  Retarget    9 days
  Halving     524 days  (64.1%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     45,783
  Size   11.1 MB
  Queue  12 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,571 BTC
  Channels  25,211

##Security & Privacy

###Binance says a fake job interview and compromised AI tools led to its $6.3 billion hack

Binance disclosed that hackers used fake job interviews, compromised developer tools and internal AI systems to infiltrate the exchange, stealing about $6.34 billion in crypto last week. news.bitcoin.com

###LDK fix blocks a probe linking private Lightning channels to their onchain funding

LDK’s October 25 fix rejects a funding-location lookup used by the probe, which requires connecting to both endpoints of an unannounced channel. cryptoslate.com

##Regulation & Policy

###Moscow Exchange plans to launch bitcoin, ether and USDT trading in December

Trading is planned to start on Dec. 1 under Russia’s new law, with annual purchase limits for non-qualified investors. cointelegraph.com

###TD Cowen: a Democratic Congress would sink the CLARITY Act for two years

TD Cowen’s Jaret Seiberg says a Democratic sweep of Congress would also hand Elizabeth Warren the Banking Committee and let Democrats block Trump’s picks for the SEC and CFTC. bitcoinmagazine.com

###South Korean regulators call for tighter cold-wallet controls at crypto firms

Regulators urged more cold-wallet storage and tighter internal access controls days after hackers took $6.3 billion in digital assets from Binance. news.bitcoin.com

##Institutions & Treasuries

###Tether holds 150,000 bitcoin, CEO says — 50,000 more than its reserve report shows

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in Lugano that the company holds about 150,000 BTC, worth $11.5 billion. bitcoinmagazine.com

##Price & Market

###Bitcoin bounces from a seven-week low under $76K as Democrats sweep Congress

The price fell as low as $75,618, a seven-week low, as 24-hour crypto long liquidations neared $300 million. cointelegraph.com

##Technology & Development

###Liana v16.0 brings new languages, Taproot by default and BIP138 descriptor backups

Upgrading migrates the database, so wallets opened in v16 won’t open in v15 or below, which also can’t read the new .bip138 backups. Also: French, Italian and Portuguese UI, inherited labels, and a fix for an RBF attack by malicious Electrum servers. github.com x.com

##Bitcoin Rap Sheet

###Binance’s $570M SAFU bitcoin moves again to an unlabeled wallet

The 7,500 BTC that Binance pulled from its user-protection fund to cover the $6.3 billion hack moved to an unlabeled, high-volume address. news.bitcoin.com