Bitcoin price prediction markets are signaling a difficult finish to 2026, with Polymarket traders assigning a 52% probability to a $70,000 retreat before January and just 9% to a $100,000 comeback, while Kalshi participants concentrate their year-end expectations around $70,000 to $80,000.
In the aftermath of the colossal $6.3 billion Binance hack, which saw 18,270.2 BTC drained from the crypto exchange’s wallet, onchain intelligence and blockchain analytics firm Elliptic has revealed that the attacker’s bitcoin holdings are growing considerably larger.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submitted a proposed crypto broker-dealer rule to the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, targeting four securities regulations governing capital, custody, and recordkeeping as Democrats prepare to take control of both chambers of Congress.
The institutions attributed this pause in their crypto services to instability from an external data provider. The two companies use Paxos as a custody provider, which sparked rumours of a possible hack on social media, but no official reports have been released.
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has now spent 374 days below its October 2025 all-time high, the longest such stretch in the network’s history, beating a record set after the 2011 crash.
U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended the week without one day of net inflows, logging a $529,500 outflow on Monday and four flat sessions after it.
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched premises linked to CoinDCX and Delta Exchange India, alleging they routed users’ trades to Binance, Bybit and other offshore platforms.
Binance France will close all of its customer accounts on Dec. 31, 2026, and will start charging monthly fees on Nov. 29 to anyone who still holds assets there. A Countdown for French Users French media reported on Nov.
A former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $2.5 million in cryptocurrency using confidential credentials obtained through dozens of federal investigations, expanding a case that initially involved approximately $1 million in stolen digital assets.
A man who opened fire on his attackers in the midst of a crypto kidnapping in Vendée, France, was convicted of opening fire on his attackers during Halloween. This was the second time that the man was targeted, having already been kidnapped in 2022.
Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao subpoenaed Kevin O’Leary and Michael Lewis as they defended a $1.76 billion FTX clawback lawsuit. The requests reached an investor paid to promote the exchange and an author who documented the rise and fall of its co-founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Greece’s parliament has approved a sweeping cryptocurrency tax framework that imposes a 10% tax on capital gains and a separate 15% tax on income from staking, lending, and decentralized finance (DeFi), marking the country’s first comprehensive approach to taxing digital assets.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission says federally regulated prediction markets generally cannot block traders based on which U.S. state they are in, and has given exchanges 30 days to lift such restrictions or explain why they can’t.
Despite top-line growth, Terawulf’s operating loss widened to $88.2 million in Q3 while IREN saw bitcoin mining revenue fall 88% year-over-year. Operating Losses Widen Amid Rising Costs For the third quarter of 2026, U.S.
The U.S. Treasury Department has ordered American financial institutions to stop processing transactions involving cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global, accusing the platform of facilitating at least $16 billion in illicit financial activity tied to sanctions evasion, cybercrime, and other illegal operations.
Zcash has activated Network Upgrade 7, which reduces block times from 75 to 25 seconds and will help fuel a long-term security reserve. However, the move also froze about $16 million worth of ZEC that will remain inaccessible in an outdated shielded pool.
Buying and operating an ASIC miner remains a substantial barrier to solo Bitcoin mining. LuqEE offers another approach: time-based access to professionally hosted mining hardware for Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), without the need to purchase or maintain a mining rig.
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are withdrawing a proposal to expand information collection for international crypto transfers as small as $250. The decision preserves the existing $3,000 threshold as officials reassess rules proposed in 2020.
Hackers behind the $6.4 billion Binance theft have begun moving stolen XRP and converting more cryptocurrency into bitcoin, although approximately $3.1 billion in assets remains largely untouched more than a week after the attack, according to the latest findings from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
Bitcoin briefly fell below $75,000 on Friday, hitting its lowest level since Aug. 21 as a U.S.-led technology stock sell-off spread across global markets.
Bitcoin treasury company Strive reported a $509 million third-quarter profit, fueled by gains in its cryptocurrency holdings, while continuing an aggressive buying campaign that has added more than 15,000 bitcoin since September. Strive Inc.
Bitcoin futures open interest fell 1.88% to $52.04 billion as the leading crypto asset declined nearly 5% to $75,783 on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. Coinglass data shows declining exposure across major derivatives exchanges, while options activity reveals a curious divergence: Calls dominate outstanding positions, but…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has rejected the current draft of legislation regulating virtual assets, citing risks to monetary sovereignty, financial stability and fair competition.
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its own WLFI token with fees from its USD1 stablecoin, three days after House Democrats named the Trump family firm a likely first target of their investigations.
As of 22 October 2026, Ethereum’s rollups hold about $31 billion in assets. More than $25 billion of that sits on two networks, Base and Arbitrum One. Dozens of other teams, after years of engineering, share what’s left.
In an unfortunate coincidence, the T3 Financial Crime Unit, involving major crypto players Tether, Tron, TRM Labs, and Binance, had already shut down months before the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is expected to chair the Senate Banking Committee after Democrats took both chambers of Congress, putting crypto’s loudest Capitol Hill critic in charge of the panel that writes its rules.
AMSTERDAM, November 6, 2026 — Bitcoin Amsterdam 2026 is underway at SugarFactory on November 5–6, 2026, with sessions covering institutional investment, European regulation, mining and self-custody.
A post-midterm tech selloff hit Asia on Friday, triggering a circuit breaker in Seoul and pushing Japan’s Nikkei into a bear market, while bitcoin held just above $75,000.
Grayscale highlighted a 10% projected compound annual bitcoin return in JPMorgan Asset Management’s long-term assumptions, exceeding estimates for other asset classes. The firm’s analysis connected growing institutional recognition with potential diversification benefits and substantial price risk.
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