The day in brief
- Bitcoin traded at $78,277 on our figures on 2 November 2026, up 1.04% over the day but down 2.97% across the week and 7.94% over thirty days.
- It sits 37.91% below its all-time high of $126,080, and the one-year change is a fall of 29.22%.
- Bitcoin's dominance stood at 60.06%.
- Sentiment has cooled to 34, which is in the Fear zone, down from 54 a week earlier.
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Bitcoin traded at $78,277 on our figures on 2 November 2026, up 1.04% over the day but down 2.97% across the week and 7.94% over thirty days. It sits 37.91% below its all-time high of $126,080, and the one-year change is a fall of 29.22%. Bitcoin's dominance stood at 60.06%. Sentiment has cooled to 34, which is in the Fear zone, down from 54 a week earlier.
US spot ETFs took in a net $34.6 million on the latest trading day, 29 October, and $413 million across the five days to that date. The ETF bitcoin holdings stand at 1,489,596 BTC, with the iShares Bitcoin Trust the largest fund at 814,873.6 BTC. Public companies hold 1,228,388.89 BTC, led by Strategy (MicroStrategy) with 848,517 BTC, while governments hold 518,525.6 BTC and miners 99,171.79 BTC. Cointelegraph reports that $3.64 billion left Binance when it reopened, and Decrypt reports that bitcoin ETF investors were heading for the exits after the Binance hack, although the inflows we recorded that week were positive.
On the network, the chain is at block 974,190, with 75,810 blocks to the next halving, estimated for 9 April 2028. Hashrate sits at 1,061 EH/s, and the next difficulty adjustment is projected at a fall of 1.04%. CoinDesk reports that Binance has begun reopening crypto withdrawals in phases, starting with bitcoin, following a $6.3 billion hack, and that the FBI has linked North Korea to the attack. Cointelegraph's coverage of the white paper's 18th anniversary is also worth a read.
Written by AI (Claude) from the live data on this page. Facts as of . Not financial advice.
Headlines
In the news at the time
- $3.64B flees Binance on reopen, THORChain co-founder opposes coin freeze: Hodler’s Digest
- Bitcoin ETF Investors Head for the Exits After Record Binance Hack
- Binance opens crypto withdrawals in phases starting with bitcoin following $6.3 billion hack
- FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses
- Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
- Bitcoin turns 18: Has the original rebel grown up?
How this wrap was put together
Claude (claude-haiku-5-5) wrote it at from the figures in the panel beside it, which our data service had collected by . Compared with the wrap for 1 Nov 2026, the price is +0.7% and the Fear and Greed score has moved nowhere.
