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Your morning Bitcoin brief: MSCI to drop Strategy from its USA Index, Russia’s central bank lets exchanges open bitcoin trading from Nov. 22 once their rules are approved, MARA mines its first Stratum V2 block and other bitcoin news
As of Nov 12, 2026, 5:03 AM EST
MARKET
Price $73,414 (-0.48%)
24h volume $23.1 bn
Dominance 60.5%
Sats / $ 1,362
NETWORK
Block #975,536
Hashrate 946 EH/s
Difficulty -7.74%
Retarget 2 days
Halving 517 days (64.5%)
MEMPOOL
Fee 3 sat/vB
TX 86,484
Size 37.1 MB
Queue 38 blocks
LIGHTNING
Capacity 4,798 BTC
Channels 40,664MSCI will also drop Metaplanet, Yellow Cake, Skel and Upexi from its global indexes at the Nov. 30 close, after a new screen classified them as non-operating companies. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com
Germany’s largest lender now holds bitcoin, ether and three stablecoins for institutional and corporate clients in Europe, but has not named any customers or disclosed fees. bitcoinmagazine.com
The release rotates auth keys; LNbits has published instructions on how to update securely. github.com
Under an ordinance published Wednesday, organized trading can start only after the central bank approves an exchange’s rules. Moscow Exchange still aims for Dec. 1. bitcoinmagazine.com
The Massachusetts senator is reportedly preparing a congressional examination of the crypto industry, prediction markets and President Donald Trump’s digital asset ventures, including investigations and subpoenas. news.bitcoin.com
US spot Bitcoin ETF outflows rose to nearly $300 million on Wednesday from $95 million a day earlier, bringing five-session withdrawals to $1.44 billion. cointelegraph.com
Barclays reported a $187 million stake as of Sept. 30, while Citigroup disclosed a new $119 million position in Fidelity’s Bitcoin ETF. cointelegraph.com
Bitcoin trails stocks, and stablecoins, ETFs and US buyers all show capital leaving; still, leverage has been flushed and two large wallet cohorts are buying, keeping the August trend change alive above the June low. research.glassnode.com news.bitcoin.com
Bitcoin fell to an 11-week low of $72,670 after slipping below short-term holders’ average cost basis of about $75,700, according to CryptoQuant. cointelegraph.com
Neither release contains database migrations. github.com github.com
On Nov. 8, 1,549 small public channels holding 1.46 BTC in total were force-closed; weekly capacity dipped just 0.3%, and the average public channel grew 1.5% to 0.098 BTC. x.com amboss.space
Customers pay with Cash App or any Lightning wallet, and merchants receive bitcoin or USDT under their own branding. Amboss says payments are final with no chargebacks; a sandbox is available for testing. x.com amboss.tech
Card users can now top up with bitcoin and spend it anywhere, according to Breez, which says the integration was added in under 24 hours with the Breez SDK. x.com breez.technology
Block 975369 was mined using Stratum V2, which adds encrypted, authenticated connections, reduces bandwidth and can let miners select their own transactions rather than relying on pools. x.com x.com
The miner found block 975427 on Wednesday, the 38th block found by a solo miner in 2026. news.bitcoin.com
As voters push back against new data centers, miners already expanding into AI could benefit from facilities they already operate. cointelegraph.com
OP_CCV, a proposed opcode, would embed contract state in Taproot output keys and enforce valid state transitions onchain, enabling stateful contracts and compact fraud proofs. cointelegraph.com
By July 2026 the estate had paid about $10 billion over five rounds, with claims valued at November 2022 prices — about $16,871 per bitcoin, Casa notes. blog.casa.io blog.casa.io
The £2 million scheme combined cybercrime with an old-fashioned home invasion, but ultimately collapsed. news.bitcoin.com
On November 12, 2020, Bitcoin Magazine publishes an article "Bitcoin Becomes Critically Important".
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