Bitcoin is breaking a midterm election pattern going back to 2014

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 3, 2026
This story was originally published by CoinDesk.

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 3, 2026
This story was originally published by CoinDesk.
Bitcoin price traded near $77,500 on Tuesday morning as polls opened for the U.S. midterm elections, down about .6% on the day and roughly $30,000 below its price one year ago, according to Bitcoin…
Moscow Exchange plans to launch crypto trading on Dec. 1 under Russia’s new law, with annual purchase limits for non-qualified investors.
Russian prosecutors from the Ivanovo area arraigned five men on charges related to a kidnapping to extract 10.4 BTC from a programmer. The defendants, mostly ex-convicts, face up to 15 years on these…
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) posted a $405.3 million net outflow on November 2, sparking viral claims that BlackRock is selling Bitcoin (BTC). The asset manager is not trading for itself…
Bitcoin edged up 0.2% to around $76,900 since midnight UTC as spot ETFs lost $399 million for a second day and Binance customers pulled a net $4.72 billion.
Oil pulled back significantly on Monday and a rally in the U.S. 10-year government bond yield was snuffed out quickly. Nevertheless, the stock market continued to fall, with AI stocks still…