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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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 falls below $80,000 after hot inflation reports, under the $81,500 ETF cost basis, as ETFs see $859 million in outflows over six sessions
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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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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Bitcoin held between about $83,500 and $83,900 on Wednesday, under $84,000, ahead of the September US inflation report. Sources differ on whether Williams' remarks lifted the price, and targets of $85,000 and $93,000 wait on the same print.
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Polymarket traders rate a bitcoin touch of $70,000 likelier than $100,000 before 2027
Polymarket traders give bitcoin a 27% chance of touching $100,000 before 2027 from a reference price of $83,416, news.bitcoin.com reported. Kalshi's central estimates sit above that price, so the downside lean shows only in the tails of Polymarket's ladder.
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Bitcoin climbed 3.1% off an $80,948 low by midday as the chip index fell for a fifth session
Bitcoin traded near $83,445 at midday Tuesday, up 3.1% from an $80,948 low after a liquidation wave. Wednesday's inflation report is the next test of whether JPMorgan's miss and the chip selloff drove the swing or leveraged positioning did.
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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 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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Strive's 1,800 coins and Strategy's 4,603 put balance-sheet demand back on the tape, though the pioneer still holds 2,313 fewer bitcoin than it did in June and the newer bid is funded by a preferred paying 13 percent.
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Bitcoin extended its selloff on Oct. 8, falling through the $82,180 support level to an intraday low near $80,800, CryptoSlate reported. The next cluster of liquidations that Glassnode models below that low sits near $75,000, about 7% further down.
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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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Bitcoin fell below $83,000 as Brent crude reached $102 a barrel and US Treasury yields climbed to their highest since 2002. Oil set the timing, but the fall landed on a futures market that had shed $2.8 billion of open interest since September 22, CryptoQuant data show.
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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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Bitcoin ETFs took 92% of September's $2.6 billion inflow in a single week
US spot bitcoin ETFs have taken in $28 million so far this week, after one late-September week brought in $2.39 billion of the month's $2.6 billion. Tesseract's Oliver Carding sets $300 million a session as his sign of returning institutional demand, and a single day at that level would beat last week's entire intake.
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Rising oil, Treasury yields and the dollar pushed bitcoin below $84,000 on Oct. 7 and forced out $403 million of leveraged crypto longs in one hour. The flush cleared only 0.27% of open interest, so most of that leverage is still in place as traders wait on the Fed's minutes.
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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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Bitcoin rose to just shy of $86,950 on Monday, within about $500 of its eight-month high, then fell below $86,000, its second stalled rally in a week. Soft U.S. jobs data drove the move, and clearing the high looks to need both lower Treasury yields and leveraged buyers willing to keep paying to wait.
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