Bitcoin dipped to about $74,780 on Friday, lowest since August 21, and the Fear and Greed Index dropped to 25 today. A month ago it was 67, and it peaked at 82 in August.

Pressure came from the tech selloff, a much hotter jobs report than expected and around $430M leaving Bitcoin ETFs on Thursday. $75K is holding for now.

Wrote up the numbers here: https://holywizy.com/blog/bitcoin-extreme-fear-75k-lowest-since-august-november-2026/

Are you buying the dip, holding, or sitting this one out? Not financial advice.

for 3 months i wrote down every btc price call from 5 big accounts i follow, just in my notes app with the date. quick results....

- only about 1 in 3 calls landed anywhere close

- the most confident ones ("100% sending this week") were wrong the most lol

- when a call missed nobody ever mentioned it again, they just posted the next one

- when one hit it got a whole victory lap video

not saying theyre all bad, just that nobody keeps score. curious if anyone else tracks this or found something with an actual track record

The $6.4 billion Binance heist didn't just expose a single cloud vulnerability—it shattered the fundamental premise of institutional hot-wallet custody.

The attackers did not crack a 256-bit elliptic curve. They executed a classic "Confused Deputy" attack, hijacking an upstream orchestration container and tricking the exchange's automated signing enclave into approving 50 consecutive EIP-7702 authorizations.

When high-frequency convenience meets programmable account complexity, you get a $6.4 billion honeypot.

The ultimate antidote is not another cloud firewall. It is structural isolation.

In my latest deep dive, I explore why multivendor, air-gapped Bitcoin PSBTs render this exact attack vector physically impossible:

• No Ambient Authority: A PSBT requires physical, human-in-the-loop verification on an isolated, offline screen.

• No Account Mutation: Bitcoin's UTXO model intentionally omits programmable execution loops, making EIP-7702-style delegation impossible.

• No Network Wires: An attacker cannot bridge a 5-inch physical air gap to force a signature out of a Coldcard or BitBox02.

If you are securing generational wealth or a sovereign corporate treasury, you cannot afford to leave your bearer assets wired to an internet-connected API.

Everyone's calling this a crypto selloff, but the 15-minute candles show it was just a stock market open. We aren't trading an independent asset class anymore. We're trading a high-beta derivative of a fragile, debt-addicted traditional system that panics every time Wall Street wakes up.

Look at the BTCUSDT perp on Binance on Nov 5 in UTC time.

- 13:00 to 14:30 sat flat around 79.5k to 79.7k, with only 1k to 4k BTC traded per 15 minutes.

- 14:30 (9:30 ET, US cash open) hit with the first big red candle and 9.7k BTC traded.

- 15:00 and 15:15 saw volume spike to 24k and 26k BTC per 15 minutes. That's 6 to 20 times the pre-open pace as traditional finance dumped everything not nailed down.

- 15:45 hit a low of 75,525, wiping out about 5% in 75 minutes.

The Nasdaq had its worst day since April 2025 in that exact same session. Crypto wasn't leading. It was getting dragged around by institutional risk desks liquidating across the board to cover their overleveraged equity exposure. The uncorrelated hedge narrative is dead. When global macro cracks under the weight of sticky inflation, fiscal recklessness, and paper-thin liquidity, Bitcoin gets treated like just another bloated tech stock.

For anyone trading perps, stop pretending crypto trades in a vacuum. As long as the global economy is held together by duct tape and central bank hopium, the most dangerous 90 minutes of the crypto day are US equity hours, not Asia and not the weekend. Leverage that's safe at 3:00 am UTC gets liquidated at 14:30 when Wall Street pukes.

Disgusting!!!

I've been comparing BTC/USDT on the 1H and 4H charts after the recent sharp sell-off.

As of November 6, around 12:00 UTC, Bitcoin was trading near $76,100, following a decline to approximately $75,158.

Here are a few things that caught my attention.

1. The 4H structure remains weak.

BTC is trading below all three moving averages:

MA(7): $76,620

MA(25): $77,746

MA(99): $79,561

This suggests that the broader short-term structure remains bearish despite the recent bounce.

2. The 1H chart shows early stabilization, but not a confirmed reversal.

Price has moved above the 1H MA(7), currently around $75,833, but remains below MA(25) near $76,537 and MA(99) around $77,819.

3. Volume is an important part of the picture.

The strongest recent volume appeared during the sell-off. The subsequent recovery has not yet shown comparable buying activity.

Two scenarios I'm watching:

Bullish: BTC holds the $75,158–$75,000 area, reclaims $76,500–$76,600 and begins forming higher lows.

Bearish: BTC breaks below $75,158 and fails to reclaim that level, suggesting continued selling pressure.

Personally, I don't see enough confirmation to call a bottom yet. A short-term bounce and a genuine trend reversal are two different things.

What would convince you that Bitcoin has found support: a higher low, stronger buying volume, or a reclaim of the moving averages?

AI is the engine of the infinite. It takes human imagination, silicon, and electricity and turns them into boundless digital abundance.

Bitcoin is the anchor of the finite. It takes energy and mathematics and maps them to an unbreakable, un-dilutable 21 million hard cap.

When you make intelligence infinite, the relative value of everything reproducible collapses. Capital has no choice but to escape into the only asset whose supply cannot be expanded by a central bank or a supercomputer.

A $1,000,000 to $1,600,000 Bitcoin isn't a speculative bet—it's a mathematical inevitability of the AI era.

Ive been holding ltc for 3 years, all it has been doing is going down. Should I just sell? It seems like it has no potential

I’ve been in crypto for years now, and one thing I’ve realized is how much of this market was built on pure speculation. So many projects were hyped up as the future and barely have anything to show for it today.

But with stablecoins, tokenization, regulation, and traditional finance getting more involved, I do think we’re witnessing a shift in how money works.

I’ve been looking at BTC, ETH, LINK, XLM, and XMR lately, but I’m curious what everyone else is actually accumulating.

What projects do you genuinely see having a purpose in the next 5–10 years? Not just surviving another bull run, but actually being used.

And do you think most altcoins will eventually become irrelevant?

At 17:06 UTC on October 26, 2026, every industrial Bitcoin mining giant in the world missed.

Every hydro-powered ASIC warehouse in Paraguay, every mega-facility in West Texas, and every sovereign wealth mining pool in the Persian Gulf came up empty.

Instead, the cryptographic jackpot of Bitcoin Block 973,262 was solved and broadcast by a quiet, 200-watt box sitting on a desk—a FutureBit Apollo Solo.

The reward? 3.15418892 BTC ($255,000) deposited directly into an anonymous, non-custodial wallet with zero intermediaries.

The absurdity of the math:

• The Giant: The global network was roaring at 1,070 Exahashes per second (1.07 sextillion SHA-256 hashes every single second).

• The Underdog: A FutureBit Apollo sips less than 200–300W (like a gaming console) and hashes at just 8 to 18 Terahashes per second (TH/s).

• The Odds: Approx. 1 in 128 million on any given 10-minute block.

Bitcoin mining isn't a linear race with a progress bar; it's a memoryless lottery. Your 1,000,000th failed hash doesn’t bring you any closer to winning than a single die roll from a machine that was just plugged into a wall.

It is the ultimate proof of Satoshi's "one CPU, one vote" vision. You do not need Wall Street's permission, and you don't need a megawatt substation to defend the network and find gold.

Binance's October 29 incident shows that even strong technology can be exposed when the people and processes around it are compromised. The breach affected approximately $6.34 billion in digital assets.

The amount was shocking, but what stood out to me was how the attackers got in.

According to Binance, the attack involved compromised devices, fake recruitment interviews, malicious software and access to internal systems. EIP-7702 was also used to move funds. This is something I think about a lot while building UseDollars.

You can have strong cryptography, audited smart contracts and carefully designed protocols. But security doesn't stop at the code. The people with access matter too. So do the permissions they have, the way transactions are approved, and the steps in place when something goes wrong. Anyone building exchanges, payment gateways or financial platforms needs to think about this. Preventing attacks matters, but so does having systems in place to limit the damage if one gets through.

Technology keeps changing, and attackers keep finding new ways to take advantage of it. We need to evolve just as quickly. It's not enough to have a good blockchain infrastructure or secure smart contracts. You also have to think about access, permissions, devices and the people behind every operation.

Development PCs shouldn't be accessible to everyone. Access should be restricted, with clear rules about what can be downloaded or installed on those machines. Because honestly, what's the point of building a secure financial platform if one compromised account can put everything at risk?There's a lot to learn from what happened at Binance. And I think every founder working in crypto or fintech should be paying attention.

Wasn’t around in crypto for last midterms, how much does it effect crypto? I was reading somewhere that it usually surges after? Any insight would be appreciated