BTC$82,107
ETH$2,433
BNB$727.63
XRP$1.33
SOL$105.20
TRX$0.3336
ZEC$1,229
HYPE$81.72
DOGE$0.0813
XMR$556.10
1Price and market
- As of 1:30 AM ET Bitcoin traded at $81,108: down 3.0% over 24 hours within a $80,226–84,147 range, −0.8% on the week and +7.2% over 30 days.Binance
- The Oct 14 daily candle closed at $81,682 (−1.8%) with a high of $84,147 and a low of $81,444: the pre-CPI climb toward $84,000 fully reversed after the release.Binance
- Overnight on Oct 15 the price slid to $80,226, the weekly low, bounced to $81,500 and then stalled near $81,000.CoinDesk
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- Binance spot volume over 24 hours was 22,918 BTC (about $1.9 billion).Binance
- Bitcoin's market cap stands at $1.63 trillion and the whole crypto market at $2.73 trillion: the market lost 6.2% in a day, far more than BTC itself.CoinGecko
- Bitcoin dominance rose to 59.5% versus 10.5% for ether: ETH fell 6% to about $2,350, XRP and SOL lost roughly 5%, ZEC 13%.CoinDesk
- Bitcoin remains 35.7% below its all-time high of $126,080 (Oct 6, 2025) and is down 27.9% year over year.CoinGecko
2Technical analysis
- Price slipped below the 20-day EMA ($82,838) but holds above the 50-day EMA ($80,331), the nearest support; deeper lie the 200-day EMA at $75,917 and the 50-week MA at $76,564.Binance
- RSI(14) eased to 45: neutral territory, not oversold, so there is still room to fall.Binance
- MACD (267) is below its signal line (870), histogram −603: momentum has turned down.Binance
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- The weekly range is $80,226–84,352 and the monthly $75,065–87,396; price sits in the lower third of the weekly range.Binance
- Glassnode sees $80,000–81,500 as key support: it holds the average spot-ETF cost basis (~$81,500) and the largest Binance bid block, which moved from $81,000 to $80,000.FXStreet
- Past buyers cap rallies: coins bought 6–12 months ago have an average cost of about $88,000, those bought 1–2 years ago about $100,000.FXStreet
- Fractals: all 6 similar two-week stretches in history continued higher (median +4.7% over 2 weeks), but only 1 of 6 matches for the 50-day window rose (median −5.2%).CoinLab
3Derivatives
- Crypto-wide liquidations neared $1 billion in 24 hours; about $197 million in BTC and $286 million in ETH, even though ether's futures market is smaller.CoinDesk
- On the Binance BTCUSDT feed roughly $84 million in longs were liquidated over 24 hours versus $9 million in shorts: buyers got flushed.Binance
- Binance open interest is 92,083 BTC ($7.47 billion): −2.3% on the day and −5.7% on the week as leverage keeps unwinding.Binance
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- Binance funding is 0.0028% per 8h (about 3% annualized) versus a 30-day average of 0.0034%: no long-side crowding.Binance
- Funding elsewhere: Bybit 6.9% annualized, OKX 2.7%, Hyperliquid 8.2%, positive everywhere but moderate.Bybit
- Longs make up 63.9% of Binance accounts (ratio 1.77), top traders 1.54; taker buying trails selling (0.97).Binance
- Binance perpetuals traded slightly below the index ($81,080 vs $81,114): a small discount amid the decline.Binance
4Options
- The DVOL volatility index rose to 38.4 from 36.8 a week ago: options are getting pricier after CPI.Deribit
- Total Deribit open interest is 394,988 BTC (~$32 billion), with a put/call OI ratio of 0.61.Deribit
- On Oct 16 at 08:00 UTC, 17,510 BTC expire with max pain at $83,000 and put/call at 1.43: almost one and a half puts per call.Deribit
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- The largest puts in that expiry sit at $80,000 (~$188 million), $78,000 (~$162 million) and $76,000 (~$101 million), per Oct 12 data.CryptoSlate
- The main monthly expiry on Oct 30 holds 146,525 BTC with max pain at $79,000 and put/call 0.51; the Dec 25 expiry holds 129,965 BTC with max pain at $75,000.Deribit
- 25-delta skew on the November series is −2.4: puts trade above calls as the market pays for downside protection.Deribit
5ETFs and institutions
- US spot BTC ETFs bled again on Oct 14: outflow estimates range from $150.5 million to $261 million, after a $175.7 million inflow the day before.CoinDesk
- ETH ETFs lost $129.5 million on Oct 14 with none of the ten funds taking in money; BlackRock's ETHA shed $109.8 million.Bloomingbit
- BTC ETFs have lost about $760 million since Oct 7 after nearly $3 billion of inflows on Sep 21–Oct 6, the fastest pace since November 2025.FXStreet
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- Strategy bought 250 BTC for $21.5 million on Oct 5–11, its smallest purchase of 2026; it now holds 848,250 BTC at an average of $75,444.SEC
- The same week Strategy spent $192.4 million buying back STRC preferred shares, almost 9 times its bitcoin outlay.Crypto
- 180 public companies hold 1.30 million BTC (~$105.5 billion, 6.2% of supply); after Strategy the largest are Metaplanet (44,000) and Twenty One (43,514).CoinGecko
- There is no Coinbase premium: the price matches Binance in dollars (+0.002%), so US buyers are not rushing to buy the dip.Coinbase
6Sentiment and on-chain
- The Fear & Greed Index dropped to 53 (Neutral) from 62 yesterday, 64 a week ago and 69 a month ago.alternative.me
- CoinLab's market temperature is 34 out of 100 (36 yesterday, 42 on Oct 6): cycle metrics lean toward the cold zone.CoinLab
- MVRV is 1.51 as of Oct 14 (40th historical percentile): holders are up 51% on average, no overheating.Coinmetrics
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- The Mayer Multiple is 1.12, price is 21% above the 200-week MA ($66,895) and the Pi Cycle ratio is 0.47 of 1: far from top signals.CoinLab
- The short-term holder cost basis is about $74,300 as of Oct 8 (data lag ~a week); Glassnode's True Market Mean is about $78,000.FXStreet
- Long-term holders' realized losses have shrunk about 85% since the Aug 12 peak: no capitulation.FXStreet
- Large wallets (excluding exchanges and pools) held 3.03 million BTC as of Oct 13, the most since Nov 21, 2025.Tokenpost
- On Oct 12 a wallet dormant since 2020 moved all 4,582 BTC (~$377 million) to new addresses; no sale or exchange deposit has been confirmed.Tokenist
- Stablecoin supply is $307.3 billion: −0.6% on the week, +0.65% over 30 days, so little fresh money is entering.Defillama
7Mining
- Hashrate is about 1,010 EH/s and difficulty 132.7 T.mempool.space
- The next retarget is expected on Oct 16, 197 blocks away, with a projected +6.0% difficulty change after −0.03% last time.mempool.space
- Fees are at the floor, 1 sat/vB for fast confirmation; block height is 971,515.mempool.space
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- Binance will shut its mining pool on Nov 10 at 07:00 UTC: its hashrate has fallen 65% to about 9.2 EH/s (under 1% of the network, 11th place).CoinDesk
- The three largest pools, Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool, control 64.2% of hashrate; with Binance gone concentration could rise to ~65%.CoinDesk
- 78,485 blocks remain until the halving, estimated for Apr 12, 2028.mempool.space
8Macro
- US September CPI ran hot: +0.6% month over month and 3.7% year over year versus a 3.6% forecast and 3.4% in August; gasoline jumped 9.1%.Bls
- Core CPI rose 0.3% on the month and 2.6% on the year versus expectations of 0.2% and 2.5%: that is what put a rate hike back in play.CoinDesk
- Polymarket prices 74.5% for a hold at the Oct 27–28 meeting and 23.5% for a 25 bp hike; for December a hike is at 78.5%.Polymarket
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- CME FedWatch odds of an October hike jumped from 22% to nearly 47% right after CPI, then eased to 26%.CoinDesk
- US Treasury data for Oct 14: the 2-year at 4.82% (+3 bp), the 10-year at 5.19%; in post-CPI trading the 2-year reached 4.92% and the 10-year 5.31%.Treasury
- On Oct 14 the S&P 500 fell 1.1% to 7,718.9 and the Nasdaq 1.9% to 26,692.9, hit by inflation and an AI and chip selloff. The VIX rose 10.5% to 16.9.CNBC
- On the morning of Oct 15 the Kospi plunged 8% to 5,528, triggering a trading halt for the tenth time this year; Nasdaq futures slipped another 1%.Koreajoongangdaily
- The DXY dollar index is at 102.1 (−0.45% on the day), gold at $4,167 (+1.4%), WTI crude at $94.1 (−1%).Yahoo Finance
- Brent climbed to $106 on Oct 14 after new attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and Houthi strikes on facilities in Saudi Arabia.Ua
9Regulation and events
- Oct 15 at 8:30 AM ET: September retail sales (expected +0.3%), PPI (+0.5%) and jobless claims (195K); another hot print would boost hike bets.Investinglive
- The next Fed meeting is Oct 27–28; the next CPI is due Nov 10.Bls
- The CLARITY crypto market structure bill failed a Senate procedural vote on Sep 15 (49–50); backers are eyeing the post-midterm lame-duck session.CNBC
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- Wincent's Paul Howard expects an $80,000–88,000 range and says a break below $80,000 could open the way to $75,000.The Block
- 21Shares' Matt Mena thinks most of the downside was priced in on the dip to $81,000–82,000 and sees room above $85,000 once macro clears.The Block
- Polymarket's median for Oct 16 (12:00 PM ET) is $81,194 with an interquartile range of $79,640–82,840 and a 52% chance of finishing above the current price; our base-case sideways range agrees.Polymarket
- For October Polymarket gives 82.5% for a touch of $80,000, 49.5% for $77,500 and the same for $85,000.Polymarket