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Your morning Bitcoin brief: LND update blocks one exploit route but a critical Linux flaw remains, Strategy buys 1,036 BTC, Cory Fields floats quantum landmines against future thieves and other bitcoin news
As of Nov 10, 2026, 5:02 AM EST
MARKET
Price $74,442 (+0.30%)
24h volume $24.7 bn
Dominance 60.3%
Sats / $ 1,343
NETWORK
Block #975,281
Hashrate 961 EH/s
Difficulty -7.10%
Retarget 3 days
Halving 519 days (64.4%)
MEMPOOL
Fee 3 sat/vB
TX 81,453
Size 40.2 MB
Queue 41 blocks
LIGHTNING
Capacity 2,531 BTC
Channels 22,680LND’s October 30 releases block a demonstrated MPTCP exploit route; affected hosts still need a patched Linux kernel and a reboot. cryptoslate.com
According to @nvk, these included paid reviews of the Mk4 (2022) and Q (2024); a pre-incident AI-assisted review by Rob Ham yielded 85 candidate findings but missed the seed-generation defect, which he says a new AI model found. x.com x.com
The fix stops connected software from using one Legacy app to export another coin’s public keys (e.g. Bitcoin keys via the Ethereum app) without on-device confirmation. Legacy Mode, Ethereum and Solana apps must all be updated to 1.1.0 together. foundation.xyz github.com
According to its latest SEC filing, Strategy spent $81.9 million on bitcoin last week and $188.3 million repurchasing STRC preferred shares. cointelegraph.com x.com
Europe’s largest asset manager held 1.9 million shares at the end of the third quarter, a 13F shows; MSTR has since fallen about 18% from quarter-end. bitcoinmagazine.com
It bought from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6 at an average of $75,721 as weekly purchases slowed; cash slipped to $487.6 million. bitcoinmagazine.com
The charter upgrades April’s conditional approval, but does not let it take deposits, make loans or issue stablecoins. bitcoinmagazine.com
Binance told users to withdraw their funds; deposits are blocked and a monthly fee on idle balances starts Nov. 29. bitcoinmagazine.com
The proposed defense: secretly planted traps that could let holders reclaim stolen coins and confiscate an attacker’s collateral. news.bitcoin.com
He proposes aligning it with the next mainnet retarget at block 975,744; the genesis block is tweaked to ease pooled mining, and a 0%-fee solo-mining pool is available for bootstrapping. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz gist.github.com
He told Barron’s that demand to swap directly held bitcoin for IBIT shares is at its highest yet, with “security and peace of mind” the top reason as kidnappings and hacks rise. bitcoinmagazine.com
According to Fitch Ratings, the decline was far milder than those seen during previous crypto crises. news.bitcoin.com
Jonathan Harvey-Buschel’s project publishes its gossip data on Zenodo, updated monthly, alongside a metrics site; he is also drafting a BOLT extension using Minisketch for gossip, revised after the May 2026 Lightning Summit. delvingbitcoin.org zenodo.org
Both reported higher bitcoin production but lower mining revenue and rising electricity costs as they expanded their AI infrastructure businesses. cointelegraph.com
BIP pages show the Core version that first shipped each one, based on Core’s doc/bips.md (74 BIPs), plus pages for 137 Core releases; the archive of 24,699 messages now refreshes twice a day. delvingbitcoin.org learnbitcoin.com
On November 10, 2011, Amir Taaki activated the first Bitcoin Improvement Proposal – BIP 0001 – which was prepared back on September 19 of the same year.
This BIP describes the process of proposing improvements. Later, it was succeeded by BIP 0002.
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