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BTC Sits on Its $81,431 Floor: Will the Level Hold Again?
BTC trades near $81,500, right on a floor that has turned the price 8 times since late February 2025. The daily closes that would settle it.
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Pratik OswalBTC trades near $81,500, right on a floor that has turned the price 8 times since late February 2025. The daily closes that would settle it.
Tron has post-quantum signatures on its Nile testnet, Starknet is voting on leaving Ethereum, and Bitcoin's response is still at the draft stage.
Super League stockholders approved the Metaplanet deal that hands the company 2,100 Bitcoin and control. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2026.
Strive's 8-K shows 36,818 bitcoin as of Oct. 16, up 4,045 in a week, as its $630 million SATS preferred offering is set to settle Tuesday.
US spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs lost a combined $549M in the week to 18 October, per SoSoValue data, with Ether funds down nearly $1B in October alone.
A New York judge denied Gemini and the CFTC's joint bid to vacate the January 2025 consent order, leaving the $5 million penalty paid and the injunction live.
About 1.7 million bitcoin sits in addresses with public keys already exposed on chain. Analysts put that supply at 60 to 90 days of normal bull-market selling.
Google cut magic state errors about 40-fold on its Willow chip. The result sharpens the quantum timeline Bitcoin and Starknet are already planning around.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday and was back near $82,500 within two hours, as hot September CPI data and heavy ETF outflows weighed on crypto.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost about $262 million on Wednesday, while XRP funds drew $740,000 and stayed the only category positive for the week.
Bitcoin fell about 3% to near $81,000 after September CPI hit 3.7%, below the $81,500 cost basis of US spot ETFs, with whale holdings at 3.03 million BTC.
The White House confirmed Patrick Witt's crypto council posting has ended, with no successor named and the CLARITY Act still stalled in the Senate.
Ether took about $286 million of the $483 million liquidated in bitcoin and ether futures over 24 hours, as hot September CPI pressured crypto prices.
Binance will close its bitcoin mining pool at 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, along with Pool Savings and Cloud Mining. Its remaining 8.7 EH/s has to go somewhere else.
Bitcoin miners fell up to 12.6% after September CPI came in at 3.7% and October Fed hike odds doubled, with the dollar spiking to an 18-month high.
Listed bitcoin miners averaged a $75,500 cash cost per coin in Q2 2026 while BTC closed at $58,400.
BlackRock's digital asset products ended September with $79.6 billion, up 63% from June, but 23% below the $104 billion held a year earlier.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $175.7 million on 13 October, the month's second-biggest inflow day, while XRP funds logged a third session with no net flow at
September CPI rose 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% forecast, and core inflation beat on both measures. Bitcoin fell within minutes of the release.
Standard Chartered has opened direct bitcoin and ether trading to professional investors in the UAE, with custody and settlement handled inside the bank.
Bitcoin touched $84,000 early Wednesday and slipped back to $83,200 as a chip-led risk-off trade and the September CPI print kept buyers on hold.
New York Fed President John Williams sees one more 2026 hike and none in 2027. Futures price a December move plus two more, a gap crypto trades against.
Coinbase's October 13 post sets out its priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, from P2MR and staged protection to the coins that cannot move.
A single Bitcoin address spent 4,581.93824000 BTC on Oct.