1Price and market
- Overnight, as of 12:43 AM ET, Bitcoin traded near $75,490: down 6.2% in 24 hours, 2.4% over 7 days and 9.4% over 30 days; the 24-hour range was $75,208–80,794.Binance
- The 24-hour low of $75,208 is also the 30-day low: price is back where it was after the US midterms, when it dipped to $75,736 on Nov 4.Binance
- The slide began Thursday afternoon ET alongside the AI stock selloff on Wall Street: Bitcoin broke below $76,000 before the close, and the Asian session brought almost no bounce.CoinDesk
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- Ether fell about 8% to $2,224, Solana 6.7% to $89.30 and XRP 8% to $1.20: altcoins dropped harder than Bitcoin.CoinDesk
- Bitcoin's market cap is $1.52 trillion, the whole crypto market $2.56 trillion (down 8% in 24 hours); BTC dominance rose to 59.2%, ETH's is 10.6%.CoinGecko
- Bitcoin sits 40% below its $126,080 record (Oct 6, 2025) and is down 27% year over year.CoinGecko
- Binance BTC/USDT spot volume over 24 hours was 26,800 BTC (about $2.07 billion), well above normal: selling was active.Binance
- The Coinbase premium is near zero (+0.003%): US buyers did not step in to buy the dip, but there was no US-specific panic either.Coinbase
2Technical analysis
- The daily RSI(14) is 37: a weak zone, but still some room before oversold (30).Binance
- MACD at −1,413 is below its −1,066 signal line and the histogram (−346) is widening: downside momentum is building.Binance
- Price fell below the 20-day EMA ($79,189), 50-day EMA ($79,813) and 200-day EMA ($76,817): all three now act as resistance.Binance
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- The 50-week moving average is $75,548: price traded right on it, making it the first strong support; a weekly close below would weaken the picture.Binance
- The 200-day simple moving average is $73,243 and the Mayer Multiple is 1.03: price is only 3% above the long-term trend.CoinLab
- The 200-week moving average is $67,615, 11.6% below price; the Pi Cycle indicator reads 0.5, far from overheating.CoinLab
- Fractals: the two-week stretch (−7.1%) resembles 6 past episodes, 5 of which were followed by gains, median +4.5%; the 50-day window shows a median +7% (4 of 6), the six-month window +18.9% (6 of 6).CoinLab
- Polymarket's median for Nov 7 (17:00 UTC) is $75,629 with an interquartile range of $74,190–77,158: bettors expect sideways trading near current levels, in line with our base case.Polymarket
3Derivatives
- Market-wide liquidations over 24 hours were about $1.08 billion, $954 million of them longs (88%), hitting 210,000 traders.Crypto
- In the sharpest hour, as the S&P 500 was down 3.8%, $428 million of longs were liquidated.Kucoin
- Open interest in Binance BTC futures fell 6.7% in 24 hours to 95,016 BTC ($7.17 billion): leverage was flushed, though not fully.Binance
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- Binance funding is 0.0049% per 8 hours (5.4% annualized) versus a 30-day average of 0.0055%: even after the drop, shorts are not paying.Binance
- Funding elsewhere: Bybit 0.001%, OKX 0.0034%, Hyperliquid 0.01% per 8 hours — negative nowhere.Bybit
- Binance's long/short account ratio is 2.92 (74.5% long), top traders 2.18: retail keeps trying to catch the bottom.Binance
- The taker buy/sell ratio is 0.97: market sellers remain slightly stronger.Binance
- Our squeeze index reads −23: retail is still leaning long, so another stop-run lower is a bigger risk than a short squeeze.CoinLab
4Options
- Today at 3:00 AM ET (08:00 UTC), 34,740 BTC of options expire on Deribit with max pain at $79,000 and a put/call ratio of 0.37: most calls will expire worthless.Deribit
- The next big expiry is Nov 13: 20,655 BTC, max pain $78,000, put/call 1.24.Deribit
- The monthly Nov 27 expiry holds 68,186 BTC with max pain at $80,000; the Dec 25 expiry holds 139,983 BTC with max pain at $75,000.Deribit
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- The DVOL volatility index is 40.4 versus 42 a week ago: options price a daily move of about ±2.1% (±$1,600) — no panic in options.Deribit
- Put/call across all open interest is 0.68; open interest totals 353,482 BTC ($26.6 billion).Deribit
- The Nov 27 skew is −5.8: puts are pricier than calls as traders hedge against further downside.Deribit
5ETFs and institutions
- US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $430.2 million on Nov 5: FBTC about $200 million, IBIT $105 million, GBTC $49.9 million.Bloomingbit
- A day earlier, Nov 4, saw a $74.6 million inflow; before that came three straight outflow days: $643 million (Oct 30), $399 million (Nov 2) and $116 million (Nov 3).SoSoValue
- Ether ETFs lost $431.5 million in the week from Nov 2 and Solana ETFs $71.5 million; only XRP funds were positive ($4.3 million).Kucoin
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- Strategy bought 811 BTC for $65.5 million at $80,846 between Oct 26 and Nov 1; it holds 849,327 BTC at an average $75,451 — price has fallen to its cost basis.Benzinga
- Strategy funded the purchase by selling 1.18 million common shares for $164 million and spent another $208 million buying back STRC preferred shares.Benzinga
- 181 public companies hold 1.30 million BTC (6.2% of supply), worth about $98 billion.CoinGecko
- On Nov 5, bitcoin miner stocks fell 15–20% and crypto-related stocks more than 10%, tracking AI shares lower.CoinDesk
6Sentiment and on-chain
- The Fear & Greed Index is 28 (Fear), down from 50 a day earlier and 71 (Greed) a month ago.alternative.me
- CoinLab's market temperature is 28 out of 100: across eight metrics the market sits in the cold half of the cycle.CoinLab
- MVRV is 1.42 (as of Nov 2), the 33rd percentile of history: holders are in modest profit on average.Coinmetrics
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- The short-term holder cost basis is about $75,774 (as of Oct 30): price has slipped below it, so recent buyers are underwater on average.Bgeometrics
- Long-term holders cut their holdings by 248,000 BTC in Q3, while spot ETFs added 79,800 BTC over the same period.21shares
- Large wallets added about 60,000 BTC in October, per an estimate published Nov 5, as price bounced toward $80,000.Invezz
- Stablecoin supply is $295.5 billion: down 2% in a week and 4.6% ($14.1 billion) in 30 days — no fresh money is flowing into crypto.Defillama
7Mining
- Hashrate is about 1,036 EH/s; difficulty is 148.4 T.mempool.space
- The next difficulty adjustment is due around Nov 13 (in 980 blocks), estimated at −3%; the previous one was +5.5%.mempool.space
- Fees are minimal: 3 sat/vB for fast confirmation, 1 sat/vB within an hour.mempool.space
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- Block height is 974,764, with 75,236 blocks to the halving (around April 2028).mempool.space
- Hashprice was $33.26 per PH/s per day on Nov 2; with the price drop, miner revenue is falling further.Millionminer
- Bernstein cut price targets on seven miners by up to 54% on Nov 4, citing uncertainty over Texas data center construction after the election.CoinDesk
- VanEck sees miners as oversold: shares of those pivoting to AI data centers fell 35% on average in October, while their grid connections are scarce.CoinDesk
8Macro
- On Thursday the Nasdaq sank 5.5% to 24,315 and entered a correction, the S&P 500 fell 4.4% to 7,354 and the Dow 3.4% (1,833 points): the worst day since April 2025.CNBC
- The trigger was fear that Democrats' midterm wins will slow AI data center construction: Nvidia fell 9% and the Magnificent Seven lost more than $1 trillion.CNBC
- The selloff erased about $2.5 trillion in market value; the SOX semiconductor index fell 9–12%.Cnn
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- The VIX jumped 70% to 28.2, its highest since late March.Yahoo Finance
- Asia extended the rout overnight: the Nikkei was down as much as 6–7% and the Kospi 7–8.8%, triggering a trading halt in Korea.Washingtonpost
- Overnight, US futures diverged: Nasdaq-100 futures +1%, S&P 500 flat, Dow −0.9%.CNBC
- The 2-year Treasury yield fell 12 bp to 4.46% and the 10-year 6 bp to 4.84% (as of Nov 5): money moved into bonds.Treasury
- The dollar index (DXY) is 101.77 (+0.2%), gold $4,051 (−1.5%), oil $91.30 (+0.9% on the day, −12% over 5 days).Yahoo Finance
- At 8:30 AM ET today, the October jobs report: consensus +59,000–65,000 jobs, unemployment 4.2%, wages +0.3% m/m.CNBC
- Fed officials Logan and Musalem argue for more hikes; Polymarket puts a December hike (Dec 8–9) at 65.5% and a hold at 33.5%.Yahoo Finance
9Regulation and events
- After their midterm win, House Democrats are drafting a broader crypto market structure bill that would strengthen the SEC and weaken the CFTC; the new Congress convenes Jan 3, 2027.Decrypt
- The CLARITY Act, passed by the House in July 2025, is stuck in the Senate; Republicans call the Democrats' plan a messaging bill.Decrypt
- The Binance hack (from Oct 29) totals about $6.3–6.4 billion; Chainalysis attributes it to North Korea's TraderTraitor group, and about $2.8 billion had been frozen by Nov 3.Chainalysis
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- Binance has resumed withdrawals and pledged to fully reimburse customers.Cnn
- Strategy CFO Andrew Kang is stepping down in early November.Benzinga
- Next Fed decisions: Dec 8–9 and Jan 26–27; Polymarket gives a January hold 74.5%.Polymarket