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Bitcoin is the original decentralized cryptocurrency, running on a public blockchain with no central issuer, and the largest crypto asset by market value.
Bitcoin traded around $81,300 on Oct. 16, holding its 50-day average of $81,279 after dipping under $80,000. Trader Ardi says the structure stays bearish until $84,200, 3.5% above that price.
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Deutsche Bank says its first crypto custody service is weeks from launch in Germany, starting with Bitcoin and Ether. The bank's product page lists five tokens, so the gap between a supported asset and a usable service is what clients will meet first.
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Bitcoin held near $82,100 after Thursday's first break below $80,000 in a month, while odds of an October Fed hike fell to about 15% from almost 30%. Derivatives data in CoinDesk's report points to short covering, so the level rests on thin conviction.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan wrote in his Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macro path ends with Bitcoin higher. A BIS paper from two days earlier models a fourth path, in which CryptoSlate's worked example has output up 10% and the consumer market down 1%.
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Bitcoin dropped below $80,000 on Thursday after September PPI came in at 6.3% annually, a day after a hot CPI report. CoinGlass counted $948.22 million of liquidations, 90.6% of them longs, and Nexo says US spot ETF holders are back underwater.
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Crypto investment products lost $434 million in the week through October 16, CoinShares reported, after September CPI came in at 3.7% against a 3.6% forecast. Gasoline supplied roughly half the monthly rise, so one week of flows is thin evidence of a lasting Fed link.
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Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Oct. 15 after September CPI hit 3.7% and producer prices rose 1.3% on the month, CryptoSlate reported. Sygnum's base case is a range-bound market into the Oct. 28 Fed meeting, with options pricing $80,000 to $87,000 and spot already below the floor.
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Capital B's 69.5 million euro first-half loss is 97% a non-cash Bitcoin impairment of 67.5 million euros. The Paris-listed company raised $30 million in the half and holds 3,538 BTC, up 25% since January. The loss line says little about cash.
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Bitcoin dipped below $80,000 and recovered to about $82,500 within hours, coindesk.com and Bitcoin News reported. The sources tie it more firmly to Fed rate-hike odds after hot CPI than to chip stocks, and the chip link rests on one session.
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Lightning Labs developer Olaoluwa Osuntokun published a 103-page paper proposing that millions of users share one Bitcoin output and keep custody. Every cost figure in it is modelled, because Bitcoin's current scripting rules cannot run the design.
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Coinbase has published seven points for a Bitcoin quantum plan, led by a design that separates the coin container from the signature scheme. Coinbase calls the post an input to an open discussion, and custody teams can test their own setup against the list.
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CryptoSlate's model fits a hypothetical 2.5 million BTC quantum sweep into 10 Bitcoin blocks, well under the 6.04 million BTC Glassnode counts as exposed. Jameson Lopp estimated about 2.6 million exposed BTC might be unable to migrate, the group a legacy-signature restriction could lock out.
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Strategy and Strive added 197,000 BTC in 2026, more than the 193,000 BTC net gain River reports for all businesses. Strive held 32,773 BTC on Oct. 9, so Strategy's share is at least 164,000 BTC, or 83%.
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Chainalysis says the US became a net bitcoin importer in the year to June 2026, the first time since 2022. Transfers above $10 million brought in 53,200 coins, about $4.3 billion, but the firm did not publish a net total.
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The UK High Court ruled on Oct. 12 that Chinese law governs investors' ownership claims to more than 61,000 seized bitcoin. Caixin reported that about 16,000 victims could be held to principal and interest on coins now worth about 200 times their purchase price.
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Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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Schwab has opened bitcoin and ether trading to eligible retail clients on a $13.33 trillion platform at a 0.75% fee. CEO Rick Wurster calls it transaction revenue, and each $1 billion traded would yield $7.5 million.
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Bank of Russia told individuals on October 15, 2026 that they cannot move digital currency from regulated accounts into self-custody wallets. Sberbank won approval to run crypto exchange services the same day, so coins bought on licensed venues now stay in licensed custody.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $261.4 million on Oct. 14 and spot Ether ETFs a further $130 million, Farside Investors data shows. Both assets bled, but the Bitcoin outflow is a small slice of what those funds hold.
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Bitcoin traded to just above $80,000 as South Korea's Kospi plunged 8% and triggered circuit breakers, CoinDesk reported. Altcoins took the heavier losses, with the CoinDesk 80 down 2.2% against 0.7% for the CoinDesk 5.
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