GM, bitcoiner — November 14, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: Twenty One Capital’s first profitable quarter at $1.09B, a Blockstream test of post-quantum signatures on today’s hardware wallets, a demo STARK proof of bitcoin’s UTXO set and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Nov 14, 2026, 5:02 AM EST

MARKET
  Price       $67,370  (-2.53%)
  24h volume  $33.3 bn
  Dominance   58.8%
  Sats / $    1,484

NETWORK
  Block       #975,780
  Hashrate    913 EH/s
  Difficulty  -6.02%
  Retarget    15 days
  Halving     515 days  (64.7%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     62,330
  Size   30.5 MB
  Queue  31 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,571 BTC
  Channels  25,211

##Institutions & Treasuries

###Twenty One Capital posts first profitable quarter with $1.09B net income on bitcoin gains

The Tether-backed company reported $1.087 billion in Q3 net income, driven largely by unrealized gains on its bitcoin holdings. Its shares slid despite the profit. news.bitcoin.com

###Blockstream introduces enterprise custody solution developed with Thales

Its Secure Multi-Party Computation (Secure-MPC) signing protocol runs entirely inside Thales hardware security modules, so key material stays protected even during signing. x.com blog.blockstream.com

###Nakamoto shares fall 6% premarket after Q3 revenue turns negative

A $5.8 million Bitcoin options loss pushed quarterly operating revenue below zero. The company also extended repayment of $60 million in Kraken debt to 2027. cointelegraph.com

##Regulation & Policy

###Trump sends bipartisan slate of SEC and CFTC nominees, including two Democrats, to the Senate

The four nominees include former CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson. The CFTC has had four of its five seats empty for more than a year, leaving Chairman Michael Selig to act alone. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com

##Security & Privacy

###Blockstream test: today’s hardware wallets can make post-quantum signatures

Per Blockstream, @n1ckler tested hash-based SHRINCS signatures on devices including Blockstream Jade. Signing took a few seconds to a minute and a half, so in principle no new hardware is needed. x.com

###Revised draft BIP proposes post-quantum address format using ML-DSA-65

Draft v0.2 moves to witness version 3 (bc1r addresses, as version 2 is used by BIP-360), adopts a BIP-341-based sighash, adds a key-type byte for future schemes and withdraws the SNARK aggregation prototype. delvingbitcoin.org github.com

##Technology & Development

###Demo STARK proof of Bitcoin’s UTXO set at block 972,500, with circuits proven in Lean

A 1.6 MB proof, verifiable in a browser in about half a second, checks headers from genesis and replays blocks 935,001–972,500. It does not cover scripts or signatures, so trust matches assumevalid. delvingbitcoin.org starknet-innovation.github.io

###BIP proposal would add post-quantum ML-KEM key establishment to Bitcoin’s P2P protocol

Liam Gilligan proposes ML-KEM-768 so that P2P traffic recorded today could not be decrypted by a future quantum attacker. Keys would derive from both the BIP-324 and ML-KEM secrets, keeping connections at least as secure as today. mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz

###Bitcoin Optech #431 covers three vulnerabilities disclosed in older Bitcoin Core versions

The issue also links draft BIPs for exfiltration-resistant signing, announces a plan to mine the testnet5 genesis block and describes an investigation into degraded compact block reconstruction. bitcoinops.org

###myNode v0.3.53 upgrades to Bitcoin v32.1 and adds automatic OS security updates

The release also includes a Raspberry Pi kernel with the CVE-2026-98432 fix, a device health summary on a modernized Status page, and a fix for upgrades failing on outdated NodeSource repos. x.com github.com

##Price & Market

###$6 in bitcoin becomes $6.9 million as 16-year-old wallets move 100 BTC

Two addresses inactive since September 2010 transferred 100 BTC on Friday, extending a year of heightened activity among long-dormant holders. news.bitcoin.com