Tether paid about $6.3 million to Nxum, a firm one-third owned by Bo Hines, starting in May 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported. The cash trail rests on payment records; the link to the law's text rests on people familiar with the talks, and Nxum contests it.
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BTSE's Jeff Mei says Bitcoin could fall below $80,000 on a hot CPI print Wednesday or rebound to $86,000 or higher on a soft one. ViaBTC's Jeff Ko calls the print largely priced in and says his constructive view needs spot ETF flows to recover.
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Truflation sees September CPI a tenth of a point under consensus on both headline and core
Truflation forecasts September US headline CPI at 3.6% and core at 2.4%, a tenth below the 3.7% and 2.5% consensus in its Oct. 9 report. The gap is wider on the monthly headline, 0.48% against 0.6%.
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Bitcoin trades 1.3% above the $81,300 support that a hot CPI print would test
Bitcoin slid 1.5% to about $82,400 on Monday as Coinglass logged $304.24 million of liquidations before the Oct. 14 CPI print. Only $63.21 million of that was bitcoin longs and shorts, so the rest of the forced trading happened elsewhere in crypto.
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Bitcoin keeps failing near $87,000 as Bitfinex cites thin spot buying and ETF inflows slow
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $729.0 million of net outflows on October 7 and 8, and Bitcoin now trades near $84,234. The $87,000 ceiling formed while the funds were still net buyers, so the outflows fit the dip better than the cap.
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Bitfinex's 80-to-1 ETH long ratio rests mostly on a collapse in shorts
Bitfinex margin traders hold about 283,410 ETH of leveraged longs, roughly $709 million and the most in over four years. Most of it went on in recent weeks near $2,500, so a slide below that price would hit buyers who have almost no profit to cushion it.
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Bitcoin's rebound to $84,000 shed a fifth of its futures leverage on the way up
Bitcoin futures open interest fell nearly 20% to 625,000 BTC, a 2026 low, while the price rose about 35% from its August low near $63,500. With fewer leveraged bets open, a sell-off now has less to liquidate on the way down.
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Bitcoin falls to its $83,000 average ETF cost basis on the worst fund outflows since June
US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $484.9 million on Wednesday, their worst day since June 25, as bitcoin fell to the roughly $83,000 average ETF cost basis. Inflows have historically been slow at breakeven, Bitfinex says, so October's strong seasonal record is a weak guide to positioning.
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Wallets tied to the US government moved 12,267 seized Bitfinex bitcoin, worth about $1 billion, to new unlabeled addresses. No exchange deposit was recorded, CoinDesk reported. Whether Washington is selling turns on the smaller sums it sent to Coinbase Prime.
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Bitcoin fell to about $81,000 on Thursday as Brent crude rose above $105 on reports that the US may strike Iran again. Whether it holds the $82,500 support traders are watching now depends largely on Treasury yields and oil prices.
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JPMorgan's $66 billion crypto inflow pace now leans on ETFs and CME futures
JPMorgan analysts count about $50 billion of crypto inflows so far this year, an annualized pace of roughly $66 billion. Third-quarter buying moved away from corporate treasuries toward ETF holders and futures traders who can exit in a day, at about half of last year's pace.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a net $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their largest one-day outflow since June, Farside Investors data show. At about $82,700, Bitcoin now trades inside the band where Glassnode maps its nearest liquidation cluster, so the next move depends on how leverage is stacked there.
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US government sends $770m of seized bitcoin to Coinbase Prime in its biggest outflow since 2024
The US government moved 9,261 bitcoin worth about $770 million to Coinbase Prime, its largest outflow since December 2024, Galaxy Research data showed. The venue is the US Marshals Service's custody desk, so a deposit there does not confirm a sale.
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US government wallets sent 9,261 bitcoin worth $770 million to Coinbase Prime in two days, according to Galaxy Research. With half from the Bitfinex hack and a 2025 order barring sales, custody or restitution fits the record better than a sale.
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US government wallets moved about $470 million of seized Bitfinex- and Alameda-linked crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, Arkham said. Trump's reserve order lets officials repay victims from seized coins, so even a sale of this pool would say little about the pledge to keep reserve bitcoin.
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US government wallets sent 833.6 BTC, worth about $71.6 million, toward Coinbase Prime on Oct. 7, roughly 0.26% of the bitcoin they still hold. The risk that the stash comes to market depends far more on the executive orders limiting sales of reserve bitcoin than on transfers this small.
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Bitfinex's net-short call on bitcoin leans on stable open interest during liquidations
Bitcoin fell to $82,734 on Wednesday, erasing its October gains as $637 million of crypto long bets were liquidated. Bitfinex says new shorts replaced those longs before the Oct. 14 CPI report, yet the funding rates it cites stayed positive all week.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $89.9 million on Monday, roughly 0.08% of their $110.8 billion in assets, while Bitcoin stalled again below $87,000. Counted with the two sessions before it, the funds were net buyers, so the sellers who turned the price back over those three days were mostly outside the funds.
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Bitfinex wants single ETF sessions bigger than last week's entire $241 million of Bitcoin inflows
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $241.1 million in the week to Oct. 2, about 90% less than a week earlier, Bitfinex analysts said. Their breakout test needs several sessions of at least $340 million each and a daily close above $87,722.
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Bitcoin's rebound on US crypto rules still leaves it 2.5% below its yearly open
Bitcoin twice topped $86,000 on Tuesday after the CFTC floated crypto rules, then slipped to $85,500, about 2.5% below its $87,722 yearly open. Liquidations shrank to $30 million on the day, so a quiet derivatives market goes into the upcoming consumer price report.
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