GM, bitcoiner — November 13, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin falls below $68K, Trezor confirms implants in three tampered wallets, pi402 brings Lightning payments for AI inference and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 13, 2026, 5:03 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $69,062  (-5.89%)
  24h volume  $45.3 bn
  Dominance   59.7%
  Sats / $    1,448

NETWORK
  Block       #975,660
  Hashrate    926 EH/s
  Difficulty  -8.16%
  Retarget    1 day
  Halving     516 days  (64.6%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     57,852
  Size   29.5 MB
  Queue  30 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,571 BTC
  Channels  25,211

##Price & Market

###Bitcoin falls below $68K as crypto liquidations hit $1.6B

The sell-off that began Wednesday carried into Friday, taking bitcoin to $67,500, a nearly three-month low, and extending its November losses beyond 11%. news.bitcoin.com

##Security & Privacy

###Trezor confirms spy implants in three tampered Safe 5 wallets, cuts resellers by about 80%

A firmware update blocks the identified implants, but those who bought from CryptoBilis should still move funds to new wallets; purchases from March onward qualify for replacements. news.bitcoin.com trezor.io

##Funds & ETFs

###Jane Street boosts Fidelity Bitcoin ETF holdings nearly 8x, trims IBIT

Jane Street ended Q3 with 19% fewer shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, though a higher share price lifted that stake’s value to $957 million. cointelegraph.com

##Institutions & Treasuries

###Israel Discount Bank to let customers trade bitcoin in its app from Nov. 26

Eligible customers aged 18 and older will be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoin and ether, with custody by Fireblocks and a six-month fee waiver. bitcoinmagazine.com

##Lightning & L2

###pi402 lets coding agents pay for AI inference over Lightning, with no accounts or API keys

The fully open-source L402+MPP stack is built on Pi and Aperture; its companion daemon, lightmeter, handles per-token metering in sats and model pricing. x.com pi402.tech

###Tony proposes a K-of-N custody design for Lightning nodes

The proposed architecture combines threshold ECDSA signing with threshold encryption of offline-precomputed revocation secrets, aiming to stop any single online machine from compromising channel funds without a spec change. delvingbitcoin.org github.com

###Amboss reports 3–6% more efficient Lightning balance probing with Bayesian Binary Search

Instead of splitting at the midpoint, the method splits a channel’s balance range where the balance is likely to sit. The paper, with Stillmark, appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Algorithms in 2025; the method runs in production at Amboss. x.com amboss.tech

##Technology & Development

###Draft BIP proposes post-quantum bc1z addresses using ML-DSA-65

Hans Stringuer’s draft, from the safe-btc project, would commit to a SHA-256 hash of the ML-DSA public key, revealing the key only at spend time; spends would carry a 3,309-byte signature and a 1,952-byte key. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz

###Draft BIP proposes a message encoding for wallets and external signers

Pyth’s draft, grown from a QR-signing spec, covers xpub export, descriptor registration, address verification and PSBT signing over any transport, including BIP-388 wallet policies, MuSig2 and silent payment sends. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz

##Regulation & Policy

###Brazil’s central bank warns 30% of crypto exchanges fall short of new capital rules

Nearly a third of the 120 exchanges that applied to keep operating as VASPs lack the required share capital and could have their applications rejected after review. news.bitcoin.com

##Mining

###Futurebit’s Apollo III home bitcoin miners head to Micro Center stores

The partnership with the electronics retailer gives consumers another way to take part in a network increasingly dominated by industrial-scale mining operations. news.bitcoin.com

##Bitcoin Rap Sheet

###DOJ wins court authority to seize $1.2 billion of North Korea’s stolen Binance crypto

Freezes now top $2.7 billion, and the DOJ also took down a $400 million deepfake theft scheme. bitcoinmagazine.com

###DOJ’s Operation TorNado arrests 354 and seizes $234 million in cash and crypto

The Justice Department said the sweep, which ran from May 2025 to October 2026, was the sixth and most extensive JCODE action since 2018, also seizing 5.7 metric tons of drugs and 209 firearms. bitcoinmagazine.com