Bitcoin price is sliding today because the government admitted nearly 1 million jobs from last year never existed

CryptoSlate · 2026-02-11
Bitcoin price is sliding today because the government admitted nearly 1 million jobs from last year never existed

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the U.S. labor market handed traders a breaking story with two timelines, one for today, one for last year. Nonfarm payrolls grew by 130,000 in January, unemployment held at 4.3%, and wages kept climbing. The details came straight from the BLS, the monthly snapshot that tells m