Bitcoin crashes through $81,000 buy wall as $1 billion crypto liquidation bloodbath unfolds
Bitcoin registered an intraday low near $80,000 as a cryptocurrency selloff triggered over $1 billion in liquidations, overwhelmingly hitting traders betting on higher prices. The largest cryptocurrency traded around $80,744…
Bitcoin’s slide below $81,000 exposes why a Fed pause may not save the crypto market
Bitcoin slid below $81,000 on Oct. 8, with an intraday low near $80,800, even as traders expect the Fed to hold in October. The September FOMC minutes, released Oct. 7,…
US government moves another $1 billion in Bitcoin as BTC slides $4,000
US government-linked wallets moved over $1 billion in Bitcoin on Oct. 8 as BTC prices fell and more coins reached Coinbase Prime. On Oct. 8, Galaxy Research flagged the transfer…
A $1,000 MetaMask incident could turn Ethereum’s staking queue into a $5 billion traffic jam
MetaMask’s precautionary validator exits are turning a roughly $1,000 reward diversion into a test of Ethereum’s staking capacity. Lido expects its affected ETH to return gradually to Ethereum staking; the…
XRP Price, Outflows, and Bitcoin Shorts Send Mixed Signals
Binance and Upbit XRP reserves fell by a combined 104.7 million tokens, with data putting XRP whales at 77% of centralized-exchange outflows; separately, four newly created Hyperliquid wallets opened 40x…
MiCA rejection forces German crypto platform into operational overhaul
Bitcoin.de is rebuilding its operating model after German regulators rejected its MiCA authorization, forcing it to outsource trading and custody to outside partners. BaFin refused the application filed by Futurum…
Bitcoin ETFs suffer biggest exodus since June as Ethereum withdrawals hit nine-month high
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds saw their steepest withdrawals in months as the cryptocurrency market continued to decline. Data from SoSoValue shows that the 12 listed US Bitcoin…
BitMine’s Ethereum buying spree could end in six weeks
BitMine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee said the company will stop accumulating Ethereum once its holdings reach 5% of the cryptocurrency’s supply, capping the strategy that made it ETH’s largest…
Citi predicts Bitcoin going back to $113,000. Here’s what the buying data shows
Citi’s $113,000 Bitcoin target would require a roughly 36% rise from the Oct. 7 reference price, keeping it below its previous record. The harder question is whether buying can sustain…
Bitcoin keeps losing ground when Wall Street opens as Coinbase discount deepens
Bitcoin’s US-session weakness is deepening as BTC prices on Coinbase trade at a $64 discount to Binance, the largest global crypto exchange Bitcoin has lost a compounded 3.24% during US…