Bitcoin Slides to $73,510 Over the Weekend: Did Nvidia Scandal Trigger BTC’s $2,000 Flash Crash?

In Bitcoin news overnight, BTC USD price fell from $75,607 to $73,510 in ten minutes on Sunday evening, its lowest price since August 21. The worst of it came at 21:55 UTC, or 4:55 p.m. in New York. In that single minute, Bitcoin dropped 1.9% on Binance. Most traders blamed Nvidia. Earlier that afternoon, CNBC reported that Nvidia’s board had opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence agencies believe was passing information to Beijing (it’s just speculation for now). Huang admitted the affair in an email to staff. After Jensen Huang admitted having an affair, a whale opened a 10x short on 30,000 $NVDA ($5.44M) on Hyperliquid.https://t.co/RztJx5FNge pic.twitter.com/zuyV2K0ftN — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) November 9, 2026 The bounce since then has been small. BTC traded at $74,184 on Binance on Monday morning, 2.2% below where it stood when the Nvidia story broke. The drop also marked a fifth straight losing week: the weekly candle closed at $74,851, below the week’s open of $78,354. So did the Nvidia scandal really trigger the dump, or did thin weekend trading turn an ordinary sell-off into a sharp one? Discover: Sam Altm...