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Bitcoin fell 4.42% to $68,377 on Nov. 13 (CoinGecko). The main reason: money got more expensive, as the US dollar index rose to 103.38 and the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.15%. That pressure turned into forced selling, and CoinDesk reports more than $1.6 billion in leveraged bets were liquidated as BTC hit a 12-week low.
More than $1.6 billion in leveraged crypto bets were force-closed on Nov. 13 as bitcoin hit a 12-week low near $68,781.99 (CoinDesk; price from Yahoo Finance, Nov. 13). CoinDesk reported the total only. The data I have doesn’t split it into longs and shorts, doesn’t give bitcoin’s share and doesn’t give the exact time window. The push came from a dollar at a 19-month high, as CoinDesk described it, and the next test …
The October PPI report put wholesale inflation at 6.5% a year, the highest since November 2022. The month itself came in a little cooler than forecast: producer prices rose 0.3% against a 0.4% consensus in the BLS release at 8:30 a.m. ET (22:30 KST) on Friday. Energy did it: final demand energy slipped 0.1% after a 10.0% jump in September, and diesel fell 7.9%. That small miss doesn’t take a December 9 Fed hike off t…
Bitcoin below 70000: BTC traded at $68,681 at 18:12 KST (09:12 UTC) on Nov. 13, per CoinGecko, down 6.38% in 24 hours. That is its lowest level since August, and it came as the U.S. dollar index sat at a 19-month high above 103, the 10-year Treasury yield stood near 5.13% and more than $1.3 billion of leveraged crypto bets were liquidated in a day (CoinGlass data via CoinDesk).
The Federal Reserve bitcoin price impact is easy to see: BTC is down 14.52% in 30 days to $71,113. The 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.1% on Nov. 12 (Yahoo Finance) as traders priced in more Fed rate hikes, and a safe 5.1% return pulls money away from assets that pay nothing.
The bitcoin price crash took BTC below $72,000 on November 12, 2026, with an intraday low near $71,218. That’s the lowest level since August, according to CryptoTimes, and it came as US spot bitcoin ETFs bled about $1.44 billion over five straight days of outflows. Coins you hold outright aren’t in danger from the price drop itself. The real risks right now are leverage and the Fed’s December 9 decision.
Fed rate hike December odds hit 88.8% on November 11, based on CME FedWatch data cited by Investing.com. That leaves the odds with no room for a cut. The other 11.2% is a bet on a half-point hike, after October consumer prices rose 0.4% against a 0.3% forecast and Governor Christopher Waller said a 50-basis-point move “should be considered.”
The BLS publishes October producer prices on Friday, November 13 at 8:30 ET. September’s index jumped about 1.34% in one month and sits 6.35% above a year earlier. Here’s what a hot or cool October print would mean for the 5.0% 10-year yield, the dollar, stocks, gold, bitcoin and your own money.
The bitcoin price post midterm elections is $73,559, down 7.97% in a week, per CoinGecko. The November 3 vote didn’t drive the slide. Spot bitcoin ETF outflows running four days straight (CoinDesk) and a 10-year Treasury yield sitting at 5.0% (Yahoo Finance) did. Your coins are only as safe as where you keep them, and the next few weeks come down to ETF flows, bond yields and Strategy’s exit from MSCI indexes at the …
Our Bitcoin Ethereum Solana Zcash comparison shows Solana down 21.58% in 30 days, the worst of the four. Zcash lost the least at 6.27%, Bitcoin fell 9.96% to $74,815 and Ethereum dropped 15.49% to $2,116, according to CoinGecko data on November 10, 2026. Nothing here points to a broken network. This is a risk-off month (investors cutting anything volatile at once), and this week’s US inflation report plus continued m…