Bitcoin Death Cross Shocks Markets ☠️, Viral Nostr App Overwhelms Servers 🚀, Harvard Triples Bitcoin Allocation 📊

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Now for today’s Top Stories:

• ☠️ Bitcoin's Death Cross: Bottom Signal or More Pain Ahead?

• 🎬 diVine Nostr Video App Goes Viral, Creator Needs Nostr Community's Help

• 🎓 Harvard Triples Down on Bitcoin with Massive ETF Bet

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

☠️ Bitcoin's Death Cross: Bottom Signal or More Pain Ahead?

Bitcoin triggered a Death Cross as its 50-day moving average fell below the 200-day, sparking debate about whether this marks a local bottom or signals further decline. Dropping to $93K amid broader market jitters as the Federal Reserve faces a data blackout from the record 43-day government shutdown, extreme fear grips markets, with the Fear and Greed Index hitting 10, the lowest since the COVID-19 crash. Historical data show mixed short-term outcomes but strong 15-26% rebounds within 2-3 months. Analysts say a bounce within 7 days could confirm the bull cycle remains intact. BeInCrypto

🎬 diVine Nostr Video App Goes Viral, Creator Needs Nostr Community's Help

Rabble's diVine video app built on Nostr protocol, unexpectedly exploded with hundreds of millions of views, hitting TestFlight's 10K user limit in hours and attracting original Vine creators. The nostalgic Vine clone aims to combat AI-generated content plaguing TikTok and Instagram with authentic human creativity. However, the viral success overwhelmed the infrastructure, causing relay scaling issues and app store approval delays. Rabble urgently needs the Bitcoin and Nostr community's assistance either via donations or technical expertise to handle the traffic surge and realize decentralized social media's potential. Nostr

🎓 Harvard Triples Down on Bitcoin with Massive ETF Bet

Harvard University nearly tripled its BlackRock IBIT holdings to 6.8M shares, making it their largest declared US investment worth $442M. The world's biggest academic endowment increased its Bitcoin ETF position by 257% in Q3, surpassing Microsoft and Amazon holdings. Emory University and Abu Dhabi's Al Warda Investments also boosted their Bitcoin ETF stakes significantly. The Block

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QUICK BITS

• BTC Map explodes to a new all-time high in bitcoin merchant locations worldwide, amid Square enabling merchants to accept Bitcoin through their Point of Sale terminals last week.

• UAE's sweeping new banking law criminalizes unlicensed crypto tools, including Bitcoin self-custody wallets and blockchain explorers, with penalties reaching $136M.

• Nick Szabo, Bitcoin pioneer, sparks debate on 𝕏 by arguing Bitcoin isn't a 'magical anarcho-capitalist Swiss army knife' immune to governmental attacks.

• Bitcoin Policy Institute study reveals Bitcoin gains bipartisan support when messaging aligns with each party's values.

• Bitcoin crosses 95% of total supply mined as only 2M coins remain, marking network maturity and gradual transition from block rewards to transaction fees for miners.

• MILLIONS dot co, the all-in-one streaming e-commerce and sports influencer marketing platform, launches bitcoin and USD tipping feature for 50,000+ eligible athletes and sports content creators worldwide.

• Japan's Financial Services Agency plans a major Bitcoin and crypto regulatory overhaul, reclassifying digital assets as financial products with mandatory disclosures and reducing tax rates from 55% to 20%.

• Galaxy Digital's head of research Alex Thorn reveals that 82% of institutional Bitcoin investors remain unaware or indifferent to the ongoing Bitcoin Core vs Knots debate over network spam filtering.

• Bitcoin ETFs experience $866M outflows in second-worst day on record, as BTC falls to 6-month lows.

• Ethereum holders move and sell their digital coins 3 times faster than Bitcoin investors, according to Glassnode.

• Adam Back, Bitcoin pioneer, says Bitcoin faces no meaningful quantum computing threat for 20-40 years as NIST-approved post-quantum encryption standards can be implemented before cryptographically relevant quantum computers arrive.

• Jack Dorsey's nonprofit generously funds diVine, a Vine reboot featuring over 100,000 restored six-second videos from the original platform's archive.

QUICK MEDIA

• Pat Riley, Design Director at BTC Inc, speaking at Bitcoin Amsterdam, explores how Bitcoin's visual identity evolved from dark, cryptic cypherpunk symbols to the bright orange logo and cultural mythology that now serves as the critical interface between Bitcoin technology and mainstream culture (Nov 15 | 17:32 min watch).

• Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University analyzes Bitcoin's upcoming death cross signal, discussing how the current bear market is masked by monetary debasement, and maintains long-term bullishness despite short-term headwinds (Nov 14 | 17:33 min watch).

• Eric Trump, in an appearance on Yahoo! Finance, predicts that capital will flow from gold into BTC, calling it the single greatest asset we've seen while citing its superior qualities compared to Gold (Nov 14 | 0:35 min watch). 

• Michael Saylor tells Grant Cardone that his first Bitcoin purchase in 2020 was $250M only because the board of directors wouldn’t let him spend the full $500M of cash in one purchase (Nov 15 | 0:45 min watch). 

• Gilles Roth, Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance, in a keynote speech at Bitcoin Amsterdam, advocates for Europe to embrace Bitcoin and tokenization to boost global competitiveness, highlighting Luxembourg's sovereign wealth fund Bitcoin investment and its decade-long leadership in creating a regulated Bitcoin and crypto ecosystem (Nov 14 | 15:36 min watch). 

• Anita Posch of Bitcoin For Fairness explains how to safely use non-KYC Bitcoin while avoiding exchange rejections, covering privacy solutions like Lightning Network, Liquid swaps, and mixed portfolio strategies to protect financial privacy from surveillance tools (Nov 15 | 4:13 min watch).

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