Bitcoin on Friday the 13th: weekend panic builds as traders eye $60,000

Friday, November 13, 2026, 12:08 p.m. ET: Bitcoin trades at $68,760, down 4.1 percent from the same time yesterday. Early Friday it fell as low as $67,555 on Coinbase, its lowest level since August. For crypto, that makes this a rare black Friday the 13th: since 2014, Bitcoin closed lower on only 3 of 22 such days, and never by more than 3.1 percent. Today it is down 3.6 percent. Within 24 hours, $1.31 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out, 83 percent of them bets on rising prices.