GM, bitcoiner — November 8, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: SEC sends proposed crypto broker-dealer rule to the White House, bitcoin mining difficulty spends a record 374 days below its peak, 66% annual growth in Lightning liquidity bought on Magma and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 8, 2026, 5:01 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $75,844  (-0.18%)
  24h volume  $10.4 bn
  Dominance   60.0%
  Sats / $    1,318

NETWORK
  Block       #975,047
  Hashrate    1,000 EH/s
  Difficulty  -4.67%
  Retarget    5 days
  Halving     521 days  (64.3%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    3 sat/vB
  TX     61,525
  Size   14.7 MB
  Queue  15 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  4,798 BTC
  Channels  40,664

##Regulation & Policy

###SEC sends proposed crypto broker-dealer rule to the White House for review

Submitted on Nov. 3, the proposal targets four securities regulations governing capital, custody and recordkeeping, as Democrats prepare to take control of both chambers of Congress. news.bitcoin.com

###EU sets up a dedicated crypto task force to counter Russian sanctions evasion

It will be part of a new sanctions office coordinating how national authorities apply the rules, targeting networks such as A7, which provided a digital ruble stablecoin to skirt the restrictions. news.bitcoin.com

##Technology & Development

###@bitryonix proposes BIP395 for unspendable Taproot internal keys in wallet policies

The PR proposes an underscore placeholder that wallets and signers can reproduce from the policy and derivation path, without a separate random tweak. It includes a Python reference implementation and test vectors cross-checked against Bitcoin Core 31.0. delvingbitcoin.org github.com

##Mining

###Bitcoin mining difficulty spends a record 374 days below its peak

The stretch since the October 2025 all-time high is the longest in the network’s history, beating a record set after the 2011 crash, as flagged by economist Saifedean Ammous. news.bitcoin.com

###Solo bitcoin miners log 36 documented block wins in 2026

A tiny mining machine beat astronomical odds in the first week of November; this year’s solo-style finds range from compact desktop devices to industrial-scale competitors. news.bitcoin.com

##Lightning & L2

###Node operators bought 17.38 BTC of Lightning liquidity on Amboss’s Magma in October

That is up 66% from 10.48 BTC in October 2025. Magma is Amboss’s inbound-liquidity marketplace, where a seller opens a channel to a node for an upfront fee; the average price across all orders has been 4.42% a year. x.com amboss.tech