GM, bitcoiner — November 9, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin drops below $74,000 as liquidations top $1 billion, LNbits tells users to stop servers after a wave of attacks, a near-record block of 11,255 transactions and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 9, 2026, 5:01 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $74,239  (-2.14%)
  24h volume  $26.7 bn
  Dominance   60.2%
  Sats / $    1,347

NETWORK
  Block       #975,159
  Hashrate    964 EH/s
  Difficulty  -6.32%
  Retarget    4 days
  Halving     520 days  (64.4%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     62,391
  Size   31.2 MB
  Queue  32 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,531 BTC
  Channels  22,680

##Price & Market

###Bitcoin drops below $74,000 as liquidations top $1 billion

Bitcoin slid from $75,690 to $73,477 in 15 minutes late Sunday as Nvidia’s scandal and stalled Iran talks hit thin weekend markets. news.bitcoin.com

##Funds & ETFs

###Bitcoin ETFs shed $1.3B in biggest weekly outflow since late June

Investors pulled a net $1.21 billion from BlackRock’s IBIT last week as Bitcoin fell below $76,000 and US technology stocks sold off. cointelegraph.com

##Security & Privacy

###LNbits tells users to stop their servers immediately, citing a wave of attacks

LNbits says security patches are coming. It disabled all instances on its SaaS, saying services would resume within 24 hours, and told operators to disable the Paywall extension while it investigates a potential bug. news.bitcoin.com x.com

###Memory-exhaustion DoS disclosed in Eclair 0.14.0, fixed in 0.14.1

Any peer able to connect to an Eclair 0.14.0 node, even without a channel, could make it buffer an unlimited number of commitment_signed messages until it runs out of memory. Users should upgrade to 0.14.1 or later. delvingbitcoin.org delvingbitcoin.org

###Electrum 4.8.4 released as another security update

x.com electrum.org

##Technology & Development

###Bitcoin block packs 11,255 transactions, the second-highest on record

The Nov. 7 block came within reach of a transaction record set in 2015, in a year already producing extraordinary daily transaction counts. news.bitcoin.com

###Draft v2.1 of a co-signer spending policies BIP published

It adds strict verifier semantics, versioned commitments, signed finality and a k-of-n fix. The full schema, exact-byte vectors and reference implementation remain unfinished; the author is seeking feedback, including on serialization. delvingbitcoin.org groups.google.com

###Coinkite’s Mk5 keeps the Mk firmware family with updated hardware

Changes include a 1.54-inch Gorilla Glass display, a redesigned tactile keypad, bottom-mounted USB-C, improved NFC and a tougher case. x.com coldcard.com

##Regulation & Policy

###Rage Weekly 45/26: a roundup on financial surveillance

This week’s links include the ousted Paraguay president placed under house arrest after a banking crisis left 60% of the country unable to access their accounts. therage.co

##Bitcoin Rap Sheet

###California orders Coinflip to pay $4.8M to Bitcoin ATM scam victims

The action covers Coinflip’s network of roughly 500 kiosks statewide after investigators identified failures in customer checks and suspicious-activity controls; the operator must stop unlawful practices. news.bitcoin.com