🇫🇷 France is erupting in protest. After the government proposed €44B in cuts (including freezing pensions and slashing health spending), tens of thousands took to the streets under the banner “Block Everything.” 80,000 police were deployed. 300+ detained.

NEW: Fairlead Strategies' Katie Stockton predicts Bitcoin could hit $135K by early 2026.

“Retiring on 0.1 Bitcoin? That’s lazy math- backed by hope, not data.” Sminston With joins us to break down: 🔸How much Bitcoin you really need to retire 🔸The stunning accuracy of the Power Law 🔸What to expect this blow-off top season

BESSENT: “Make-up cuts are needed” because the Fed has been dependent on faulty data 👀

BESSENT: "The Federal Reserve is among the foremost drivers of inequality in America. By failing to deliver on its inflation mandate, the Fed allowed class and generational disparities to grow worse, expanding the divide between asset-owners and lower-income Americans."

NEW: Cantor Fitzgerald launches the Gold Protected Bitcoin Fund. This product offers 45% of Bitcoin’s uncapped upside over 5 years, while using gold to shield up to 100% of principal if BTC falls. Designed to cut short-term volatility and capture long-term growth.

JUST IN: Cboe will launch continuous Bitcoin futures on Nov 10, pending approval. The product mimics perpetual futures but in a U.S.-regulated, cleared market, giving institutions an easier way to gain long-term crypto exposure. Big step in Bitcoin’s Wall St integration.

JUST IN: US payrolls revised down by 911,000 jobs, the largest cut in history.

🚨 BREAKING: Aikido Security has flagged what may be the largest npm supply chain hack ever targeting crypto holders. A long-trusted maintainer (“qix”) was phished, and 18 popular packages, including chalk, debug, and ansi-styles (2B+ weekly downloads), were injected with wallet-draining code. The malware silently swaps crypto addresses in MetaMask, Phantom, and other software wallets. Users see the correct recipient, but funds are rerouted to attacker-controlled addresses. The compromised packages have already been downloaded over 1B times, putting the entire JavaScript ecosystem at risk. 🔒 Hardware wallet users: verify every transaction before signing. ⚠️ Software wallet users: avoid on-chain transactions for now.

JUST IN: 🇫🇷 Macron loses his 2nd government in under a year as PM François Bayrou is ousted by a no-confidence vote. The collapse deepens France’s political paralysis and fuels investor doubts over its swelling deficit.