GM, bitcoiner — November 6, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin holds near $76,000 as Nasdaq slides into correction, Core Scientific to exit bitcoin mining by year-end, Bull Bitcoin adds Payjoin for deposits and withdrawals and other bitcoin news

Network Stats

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As of Nov 6, 2026, 5:02 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $76,105  (-5.33%)
  24h volume  $45.1 bn
  Dominance   59.3%
  Sats / $    1,314

NETWORK
  Block       #974,797
  Hashrate    1,046 EH/s
  Difficulty  -2.44%
  Retarget    7 days
  Halving     522 days  (64.2%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     52,958
  Size   14.0 MB
  Queue  14 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  4,798 BTC
  Channels  40,664

Price & Market

Bitcoin holds near $76,000 as Nasdaq slides into correction

Crypto liquidations topped $1 billion as Strategy, Coinbase and bitcoin miner shares fell by double digits. On Friday Asian markets lost over $1 trillion in a day, while bitcoin held just above $75,000. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com

Mining

Core Scientific (CORZ) to exit bitcoin mining by year-end as colocation hits $215 million

The company will finish winding down mining in the fourth quarter and enter 2027 as a pure-play AI colocation landlord; its self-mining revenue has already fallen to $12.3 million. bitcoinmagazine.com

Democrats push to restrict new data centers, threatening bitcoin miners’ AI pivot

After data centers were on the ballot this week, newly empowered Democrats from Texas to Ohio are talking about pausing or limiting new ones, a risk for miners betting their future on AI hosting. news.bitcoin.com

Institutions & Treasuries

Keel (KEEL) sells entire bitcoin treasury for $192 million, will sell BTC daily

Keel sold 2,520 BTC in the third quarter, leaving its treasury near zero, and said its Quebec-mined coins will now be sold every day as it pivots to AI data centers. bitcoinmagazine.com

Regulation & Policy

Greece approves 10% capital gains tax on crypto, below the draft rate

Parliament adopted the country’s first dedicated crypto tax framework, exempting annual gains of up to €500. bitcoinmagazine.com

South Korea moves to delay 22% crypto gains tax to 2029 in a fourth postponement

The government will ask lawmakers to approve the delay and to let investors carry losses forward for up to three years. bitcoinmagazine.com

Fed and OCC quiz US banks after $6.3 billion Binance hack

Federal Reserve and OCC supervisors contacted US banks this week to check for vulnerabilities following the hack. bitcoinmagazine.com

Thailand files criminal complaint against Bitget, plans to block access in December

Thailand’s securities regulator alleges that the exchange’s operator ran an unlicensed digital asset business in the country. news.bitcoin.com

Funds & ETFs

US spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs post $530 million outflows as election gains evaporate

The funds shed a combined $530 million on Thursday as bitcoin fell below $76,000 and US stocks tumbled. cointelegraph.com

Lightning & L2

Amboss’s MPFlow model chooses Lightning channels to maximize payment flow

According to Amboss, the machine-learning model has made 4,640 channel-open decisions in production, placing 267.3 BTC across 30 managed nodes, and now powers its peer recommendations. x.com

Breez SDK 0.28 adds a bridging client and sending to silent payment addresses

The bridging client lets users pay a Spark, Lightning or USDC/USDT address from another chain or over Lightning without a wallet; the release also supports sending to BIP-352 silent payment addresses. github.com

Technology & Development

Blockstream Q3 update: draft post-quantum BIP, security releases and a restored Liquid peg

Blockstream co-authored the draft SHRINCS BIP, shipped security releases for Jade, Core Lightning and Elements, and opened betas for Blockstream Swaps, its Enterprise Custody Solution and AMP2. blog.blockstream.com blog.blockstream.com

LearnBitcoin shares mainnet timestamp data for Great Consensus Cleanup grace-period debate

LearnBitcoin found that across 483 retargets, a period’s first block was stamped before the previous period’s last block 10 times; the worst was -1,127 s in 2012, -43 s since 2015, and nothing came near 7,200 s. delvingbitcoin.org learnbitcoin.com

Stratum V2 updates on Umbrel: solo mine from your own node or build your own block templates in a pool

A walkthrough covers configuring SV2 on Umbrel for solo or pool mining, plus a new telemetry feature, log improvements and Telegram activity updates. x.com x.com

Security & Privacy

Bull Bitcoin adds Payjoin for deposits and withdrawals

Bitcoin Magazine calls it the first Bitcoin exchange to offer Payjoin deposits and withdrawals; on-chain buys and sells via BULL Wallet now use Payjoin by default. atlas21.com bitcoinmagazine.com

Raspberry Pi kernel fix for TCP vulnerability CVE-2026-98432 released for MyNode users

MyNode OS v0.3.52 users can update via the settings page with “Upgrade OS Package” and a reboot; the next release, once available, will also include the fixed kernel. x.com x.com

Today in history

Satoshi on Decentralized Systems

On November 6, 2008, Satoshi explained the strengths of decentralized systems:

"Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own."

Bitcoin Capitalization Reaches $1M

On November 6, 2010, bitcoin market capitalization surpassed the $1 million mark. The price on MtGox touched $0.50 per coin.