BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC that a data center moratorium would put the U.S. in a recession. Moody's puts this year's capex at $700 billion, and Fink separately warned that the national debt has reached $40 trillion.
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Without IBIT, U.S. bitcoin ETFs lost $11.73 million on the day they reported a $5.06 million inflow
U.S. bitcoin ETFs took in $5.06 million on Thursday while ether ETFs lost $60.22 million, according to Bitcoin News. BlackRock's IBIT alone added $16.79 million, and four sessions of flipping flows leave bitcoin funds about $146 million down.
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US crypto ETFs shed a net $1.29 billion in the week of Oct. 5-9, crypto.news reported from Farside Investors tables. Every tracked category ended negative, but BlackRock's Ether fund and two Bitcoin funds supplied over four-fifths of the money that left.
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September's $3 billion Bitcoin ETF burst left 2026 flows only $934 million in the black
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $3 billion between September 17 and 25, enough to push 2026 net flows back above zero. The year's resulting cushion, about $934 million, is under 1% of the roughly $105 billion to $110 billion the funds hold.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $21.13 million on October 9 as ether funds lost $56.10 million, a ninth straight day of outflows. Netted together, about $35 million left the two groups, so the bitcoin rebound is too small to show institutions coming back.
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Bitcoin climbed back to about $83,000 on Friday even as spot bitcoin ETFs shed more than $700 million this week. Bitwise Europe's Luke Deans told Decrypt that level is also the funds' average cost basis, so a typical holder can sell there near breakeven.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed about $485 million in a single session, enough to push October's flows below zero. Because that exit is small against the funds' asset base, oil prices and Treasury yields look like the stronger force behind the wider crypto sell-off.
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US bitcoin and ether ETFs shed about $965 million in two sessions as ether funds logged an eighth straight day of redemptions. Most of Thursday's selling sat in Fidelity's FBTC and BlackRock's ETHA, consistent with a few large holders trimming positions.
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CleanSpark and MARA shares fell much further than bitcoin in the first days of October. Strategy and the iShares Bitcoin Trust each lost 1% on October 8 as CleanSpark lost 7%, 24/7 Wall St. reported, so the weak stand-ins for the coin are the miners.
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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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Bitcoin fell to $83,404 on Wednesday after one overnight hour traded 309 BTC, at least three times the volume of any hour around it. Whether that low holds depends on how much futures leverage the selloff forced out.
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US spot ether ETFs lost about $408 million in six straight sessions, half of it on Tuesday from BlackRock's ETHA alone. Bitcoin funds took in $119 million that day after losing $90 million on Monday, too little over two sessions to have absorbed the ether money.
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BlackRock's ETHA lost $201.89 million on Tuesday, the entire ether ETF outflow in a sixth straight losing session, as its IBIT drew $122 million. So far the gap between bitcoin and ether money sits inside one issuer's two funds, and no other ether ETF had net flows.
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Onchain spot demand for bitcoin stays negative despite a $2.39 billion ETF week
US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion from September 21 to 25, yet CryptoQuant's 30-day estimate of spot demand was still negative on October 1. Fund subscriptions alone cannot show that the rally has buyers beyond the ETF channel.
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- Hype gap+5
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Bitcoin's return above cost gives Strategy an unaudited $4.1 billion tax benefit
Strategy estimated a $4.1 billion income-tax benefit after its Bitcoin climbed back above cost at Sept. 30. The estimate came from a quarter-end price test that KPMG has not reviewed, so it belongs apart from operating income and cash.
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BlackRock's ETHA clients pulled all $202 million that left US Ethereum ETFs on October 6
BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust lost $201.89 million to redemptions on October 6, the whole of a $202 million net outflow from US spot Ethereum ETFs. The other Ethereum funds were roughly flat that day, so the selling came from one fund's clients while the claimed move into Bitcoin went unmeasured.
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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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US spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $89.9 million on Monday as $159.8 million left ARKB and Fidelity's FBTC while BlackRock's IBIT took in $69.85 million. One session that followed about $293 million of inflows is thin evidence that buyers are settling on a single fund.
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Strategy and IBIT now hold 7.87% of bitcoin's capped supply on very different terms
Strategy and BlackRock's IBIT trust hold 1.65 million bitcoin worth about $140.8 billion, 7.87% of the 21 million cap. Strategy owns its coins as a corporate treasury, while IBIT's belong to a trust whose balance moves with share redemptions.
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Earlier coverage
- BlackRock's IBIT draws $450 million in a week when all US bitcoin ETFs net $241 million
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Bitcoin's bounce above $85,000 waits on ETF buyers to follow a pre-payrolls squeeze
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Bitcoin rallies toward $87,000 with ETF inflows at a tenth of their September peak
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Spot Bitcoin ETFs' $2.4 billion week caps a $6.7 billion climb since mid-July
Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Spot Bitcoin ETF inflows fall 81% in three sessions from the year's record day
Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Ether ETFs took in 0.74% of assets on the day bitcoin funds shed 0.22%
Invest · August 30, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Three quarters of a day's Ether short liquidations landed inside one hour
Invest · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Bitcoin's squeeze high stopped $409 short of the average ETF buyer's cost
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- Short covering supplied 39% of the buying that took Bitcoin to $87,395
Invest · September 22, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- A $433M Bitcoin ETF session nets out to roughly 77 coins for the week
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers