Ergo and Cardano launched the fourth governance vote with the wrapped Bitcoin community anetaBTC to decide whether to distribute 2 cBTC and 36,000 ERG (worth about 350,000 ADA) to cNETA/NETA stakers within the community fund within a year. Users can use cVOTE4/eVOTE4 tokens to vote. The vote will end in about 72 hours, with more favorable votes currently.

In the past three weeks, the transaction cost of Bitcoin has sharply increased, reaching a peak of $15 per transaction three days ago. Similarly, the transfer cost of Ethereum has also risen significantly. Between October 22 and November 12, 2023, the average cost of Ethereum transactions soared by 219%, from $2.08 per transaction to $6.64 per transaction. On Sunday, November 12th, the estimated cost of transferring assets through bridging between different chains was $8.93 to $9.17. From October 22, 2023 to November 11, 2023, Ethereum processed approximately 1,071,448 transactions per day on average. Etherscan data shows that the regular value of Ethereum Gas is currently 27 gwei, and the cost of a Swap transaction is about $19.74. (Bitcoin.com)

According to Coindesk data on November 13th, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings have gained over $1.1 billion (+25%), currently holding over 158,000 Bitcoins.

An unidentified hacker group claimed to have stolen 70,000 customer selfies and sensitive personal information of 300,000 customers from Bitcoin ATM operator Coin Cloud. Coin Cloud operated more than 4,000 ATMs in the United States and Brazil before filing for bankruptcy in February this year. According to an article published by cybersecurity expert vx-underground on X, the hacker group also claimed to have stolen the source code of Coin Cloud's backend system. The post showed edited images allegedly involving customer selfies and personal identity information accessed by the group, including customers' social security numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth, occupations, and phone numbers. Vx-underground said the hackers shared these claims on private channels, and the leaked database could soon be released online. (The Block) Previously, according to a document filed with the Nevada bankruptcy court on February 7, Coin Cloud had assets of $50 million to $100 million and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million. The company has 10,000 creditors, with Genesis Global Trading being the largest unsecured creditor with a loan balance of $100 million.

According to data from 1ML, the current number of lightning network nodes for Bitcoin is 14,604, a decrease of 1.95% in the past 30 days; the number of channels is 62,685, a decrease of 2.1% from a month ago; and the network capacity is 5,282.19 BTC, an increase of 1% per month.

Bitcoin News stated on social media that currently, there are 81,954 addresses that hold at least $1 million worth of Bitcoin, which is almost triple the amount from January 2023 when there were only 28,084 Bitcoin addresses worth at least $1 million.

According to BTC.com data, the current number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network is 205,040, the network's computing power is 454.72EH/s, and the 24-hour transaction rate is 8.14 transactions/s. The current network difficulty is 64.68T, and it is predicted to increase by 0.09% to 64.74T in the next difficulty adjustment, which is 14 days and 1 hour away.

According to data from the Coinglass platform, the current open position of Bitcoin futures contracts has reached $16.671 billion. Among them, CME has the largest share, at $4.204 billion; Binance ranks second, at $3.937 billion; and Bybit ranks third, at $2.668 billion.

According to BitInfoCharts data, as of November 12th, the number of Bitcoin millionaires was 88,628, an increase of 215% compared to January 5th (28,084). Specifically, the number of addresses holding at least $1 million in Bitcoin was 81,962, while the number of addresses holding at least $10 million in Bitcoin was 6,666. 

In the past three months, the amount of BTC sold by the top 13 cryptocurrency mining companies listed has exceeded their production for the first time. According to data from the Bitcoin mining research platform TheMinerMag, the liquidation-to-production ratio of mining companies such as Marathon Digital, Core Scientific, Argo Blockchain, Bitfarms, Bit Digital, Hut 8, Iris Energy, and Terawulf in October was 105%, which means they sold all mined coins and held assets. It is worth noting that some mining companies sell all the BTC they mine every month, but companies such as Marathon, Hut 8, Cipher, CleanSpark, and Bit Digital use a mixed funding strategy, and their liquidation volume in October was higher than in previous months. Bit Digital and Hut 8 sold 422 and 365 BTC respectively, with the highest individual ratio and a liquidation volume exceeding 300% of the monthly production.