Crypto news this week came in two waves. After Democrats won both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, bitcoin jumped above $80,000 on November 4. A day later it fell back below $76,000 as a chip-stock sell-off hit the Nasdaq. The October jobs report on November 6 pushed the odds of a Fed rate hike in December to 76.8%, and US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion in five trading days. As of November 7, 2026, 7:01 p.m. ET, bitcoin trades at $75,780, −2.2% since November 1, and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index reads 28.

Below you will find the week’s crypto news as a timeline, prices for the ten largest coins, the key dates for November 9 to 15 and the rest of the month, what the midterms mean for crypto rules in Washington,…