
Crypto gives back a $100B post-election gain as Bitcoin and XRP fall
Crypto briefly added about $100 billion after the U.S. midterms, then lost it amid a global tech selloff, leaving Bitcoin lower on the week.
- Bitcoin.com NewsTerence Zimwara
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Crypto briefly added about $100 billion after the U.S. midterms, then lost it amid a global tech selloff, leaving Bitcoin lower on the week.

Bitcoin is trading near $76,000, right on its 200-day average, after Brazil's largest exchange lost $46 million. A second exchange hack in a week adds to worries about keeping coins on exchanges.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost money last week, and BlackRock's IBIT did most of the damage, while Fidelity's fund ended slightly positive. Steady selling from the biggest US fund removes one of the main buyers that held the price up.

LNbits, an open-source Lightning wallet and payments tool, issued an emergency shutdown warning on Sunday after reports of a security problem. It touches a small part of the Bitcoin world, but adds to a week full of security scares.

Reports say OKX and other exchanges are flagging deposits from MEXC-linked addresses after the Treasury blacklisting. If more exchanges follow, MEXC users could struggle to move funds, which adds stress across trading venues.

US stocks recovered after the election as investors weighed what a Democratic Congress means. A steadier stock market gives Bitcoin some room to stabilize after last week's drop.

TeraWulf made about 83% of its third-quarter revenue from AI computing leases, another sign that miners are shifting power away from Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor shared a chart valuing Strategy's bitcoin at $64.44B after a sharp sell-off, prompting talk that the company may buy more.

Mining difficulty has stayed under its all-time high longer than at any point in Bitcoin's history, even longer than after China's ban. It points to squeezed miners, who may sell more coins to cover costs.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao asked the crypto industry to stop infighting while it deals with fallout tied to Binance, which says little new for Bitcoin.

BitFuFu mined 137 BTC in October versus 167 in September with flat hashrate, a small sign that mining is getting harder for miners.

The eCash fork gave Bitcoin holders a matching balance of ECX tokens, but it is unclear where they can be traded. If exchanges list ECX, some holders may sell it quickly, though the effect on BTC itself should be small.

Coinbase described a bundled offering covering token sales, listings and custody, deepening its role in crypto infrastructure but with little direct effect on Bitcoin.

Fidelity's director of global research Jurien Timmer says he still favors Bitcoin over gold, offering steady institutional support during a market sell-off.

IREN's AI cloud revenue rose to $200 million while mining revenue fell to $28 million, showing miners shifting away from Bitcoin toward AI work.

The EU is creating a crypto unit inside a new sanctions office to stop Russia using digital assets to get around sanctions, which tightens oversight of crypto flows.

The FBI tied the theft to North Korean hackers, and Binance saw $3.64 billion leave in under ten hours once withdrawals reopened. A state-backed attacker holding billions in crypto is a lasting worry for Bitcoin's price.

Galaxy expects Democrats to look harder at Trump-linked crypto businesses after winning the House and Senate. That could slow friendly crypto laws and bring more hearings, which traders may price in as uncertainty.

Binance's investigation found attackers used compromised employee computers and stolen credentials to breach its wallets, raising fresh questions about exchange security.

Nigeria's central bank released a framework with separate stablecoin licences and capital rules, giving crypto firms in a big adoption market clearer ground.
Maketo is following the 200 biggest of 209 stories in the Bitcoin news feed from the last 7 days as of .
Every Bitcoin story Maketo collected in the last seven days, with the reports of the same event grouped into one card. A story that ten outlets covered appears once, with all ten named on it, so the feed counts events rather than articles.
Each story is scored from 0 to 100 for how far it could move Bitcoin's price. A regulatory decision scores high; a price recap of a day that already happened scores low. Sorting by impact puts the stories that could matter most at the top, whichever way they lean.
Read the tone pill for the direction and the impact number for the size, then open the story with the publisher that reported it. The feed does not rank by publisher and it never writes a headline a publisher did not: a card says where its headline came from when the wording is theirs.
Source: Maketo groups the day's Bitcoin coverage into stories and scores each one from 0 to 100. Headlines and links belong to the publishers. Reading for .
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