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Your morning Bitcoin brief: Bitcoin Core discloses three security vulnerabilities, MSCI to rule on Strategy’s index seat, MARA sells 13,597 BTC and other bitcoin news
As of Nov 11, 2026, 5:03 AM EST
MARKET
Price $73,758 (-0.99%)
24h volume $32.9 bn
Dominance 60.4%
Sats / $ 1,356
NETWORK
Block #975,425
Hashrate 968 EH/s
Difficulty -6.54%
Retarget 2 days
Halving 518 days (64.5%)
MEMPOOL
Fee 1 sat/vB
TX 64,089
Size 31.4 MB
Queue 32 blocks
LIGHTNING
Capacity 4,798 BTC
Channels 40,664A reorg mempool bug can deny miners valid block templates, inbound Tor peers could wrongly get whitelist privileges (DoS or state leaks), and a misplaced witness check lets a malicious peer stall block processing. All are fixed in 29.2+ and 30.0+. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz bitcoincore.org
Bitcoin Magazine reports the attacks drained funds and says operators must upgrade before restarting servers. LNbits urges all users to update immediately; the release also adds 2FA, on-chain wallets and BOLT12 payments. bitcoinmagazine.com github.com
Binance says a public iOS sandbox escape called worse_query could let malicious apps read seed phrases and private keys stored by other apps; Apple’s Nov. 9 iPhone updates are silent on it. bitcoinmagazine.com
Adding a new auto-withdrawal address or turning off the PIN or 2FA now takes five days, cancellable throughout; Strike says nobody, including the company, can skip the delay. Authenticator users can now upgrade to a passkey. x.com
MSCI finalized rules on Oct. 15 that make “non-operating companies” ineligible; analysts are modeling what removing Strategy (MSTR) could cost. news.bitcoin.com
Its Q3 10-Q shows 11,385 of roughly 15,649 BTC pledged to a program whose counterparty can reuse the coins, with nearly all the rest backing $1 billion of notes. bitcoinmagazine.com
It sold its remaining 211.56 BTC for about $16 million by Nov. 8, bringing sales since late July to about 1,113 BTC, months after chasing a $100 million treasury. bitcoinmagazine.com
The former White House crypto adviser says the president remains interested in buying bitcoin for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, but open-market purchases face a serious legal problem. news.bitcoin.com
The sanctions bill lets the interior minister freeze bitcoin and bank funds of people on a national list; a court appeal would not pause the freeze. bitcoinmagazine.com
Rep. Ron Reynolds filed House Bill 815 on Monday; it would allow each Texas city or county to put up to $10 million of public money into bitcoin starting Sept. 1, 2027. bitcoinmagazine.com
Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez said payments are accepted online and in person, with every payment converted to dollars before it reaches the county. bitcoinmagazine.com
The miner sold about 40% of its stack after Sept. 30, used $750 million to repay all its BTC-backed term loans and plans further sales to fund AI infrastructure, convertible note puts and buybacks. bitcoinmagazine.com
In CryptoSlate’s model, a 6.5% cut lifts gross mining revenue at unchanged price, subsidy and fees, but the S19 electricity break-even stays near 4 cents/kWh. cryptoslate.com
Mining-machine sales fell to $4.8 million from $118.6 million a year earlier, but a $51.9 million fair-value gain turned an operating loss into $8.0 million of net income. bitcoinmagazine.com
Bitcoin and US stocks initially fell after October inflation topped forecasts, with traders expecting a quarter-point Fed rate hike in December. cointelegraph.com
A separate onchain investigation into dormant wallets traces a series of large transfers. news.bitcoin.com
CryptoSlate models full aggregation cutting fees by about 14% for a joint payment or 27% for consolidation; activation and wallet support remain unresolved. cryptoslate.com
The write-up tackles scaling coinbase-native payouts for decentralized pools, a problem that helped sink P2Pool, and outlines design constraints and attacks such as payout settlement griefing and the Rich List Attack. delvingbitcoin.org 256foundation.org
Murch, a whentaproot.org co-author, argues waiting for every service to support bc1p lets laggards hold adoption hostage; Edil Medeiros says the deeper issue is that addresses are poor abstractions for spending conditions. delvingbitcoin.org whentaproot.org
Murch, Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by 0xB10C, Luke Carriere and Sjors Provoost; news includes continued discussion of TCP hole punching. bitcoinops.org
On 11 November 2022 FTX Trading Ltd. and its affiliated companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The incoming CEO John J. Ray III, who had previously wound down Enron, told the court: "Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here."
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