Bitcoin under $76,000: tech selloff wipes out the midterm rebound

The rebound above $80,000 barely lasted a day. A selloff in tech and AI stocks on Wall Street pulled Bitcoin under the $76,000 mark; liquidations added up to around one billion dollars – mostly longs. At the same time, investors are digesting data-center moratoriums, ETF inflows at Fidelity, the Mercado Bitcoin hack and Trump Media’s BTC transfer to Crypto.com.

The price: rebound fizzles#

One bitcoin cost $75,543, or €67,456, on Friday, November 6, 2026, around 06:08 (CET). That is a drop of about 6.0 percent in dollars and 5.5 percent in euros versus the previous day. Only one day earlier the price had reclaimed the $80,000 mark – now it is trading again near the midterm low around $75,100 to $75,500.

Bitcoin loses a good five percent within 24 hours to around $75,500, Ether about 6.5 percent. The Nasdaq 100 fell 6.3 percent, the semiconductor index SOX even 8.4 percent.

Why tech is dragging Bitcoin with it#

According to market experts, the trigger is concern about data-center moratoriums: after the Democrats’ win in both chambers, planned data centers – for example in Texas – could temporarily be put on ice. What certainly does not help either: for December the market is currently pricing in about a 75 percent chance of a rate hike, according to FedWatch.

ETFs: slight inflows despite the selloff#

On November 4, US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $74.6 million in net inflows according to industry data. Fidelity’s FBTC alone drew in about $236.7 million and thereby offset outflows at BlackRock’s IBIT of around $201 million.

Trump Media and Mercado Bitcoin#

Wallets linked to Trump Media transferred about 4,259 BTC (around $340 million) to Crypto.com. The amounts match holdings previously disclosed as collateral for convertible bonds; a sale is not confirmed – earlier moves went into custody. In parallel, the cyberattack on Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin is weighing on sentiment.

Conclusion#

Bitcoin under $76,000 after an 80k flash in the pan once again shows the tight coupling to tech risk and leverage. At the same time it reminds all of us that Bitcoin’s real advantage is not the daily chart, but ownership without an exchange hot wallet – and the discipline to avoid leverage and rumors.

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Core Lightning security patch: what is moving Bitcoin tech#

Core Lightning publishes v26.06.10 as a security release against channel-drain risks, and Bull Bitcoin makes Payjoin the default.

Core Lightning v26.06.10: patch before it gets expensive#

Unpatched Core Lightning nodes face channel-draining risks. Maintainers are urging an upgrade to v26.06.10. According to the changelog and Freedom.Tech, the release closes gaps in dual funding, splicing, HTLC resolution and remote access via Commando runes.

Concretely, the new version checks peer signatures on dual-funded channel opens and splicing per BOLT 2. An HTLC that had just been removed could previously be confused with a still-active HTLC of the same payment hash, amount and expiry – the node could fail the live payment upstream while the peer could still claim it.

Simply put: if you run a Lightning node, you update the software – and clean up access tokens.

Bull Bitcoin: Payjoin as the default#

@btcinsider__ reports: Bull Bitcoin will be the first exchange to support the Payjoin protocol by default for on-chain deposits and withdrawals. Payjoin (BIP78) lets sender and receiver combine inputs in the same transaction – harder from the outside to read than classic “one address, one amount” patterns. Simply put: the exchange helps make your on-chain withdrawal look less like a typical exchange withdrawal. Practical upside: more privacy without extra tooling for the end user – a step that self-custody wallets have offered for a while, and that is now moving into everyday exchange use.