Thursday, October 8, 2026

Bitcoin today, October 8, 2026: price and forecast

Morning brief · Oct 8, 1:45 AM ET · price at release $82,927

Bitcoin trades at $82,927, down 1.5% on the day.

  • Overnight it slipped to $82,228, its lowest since Sep 21, after the biggest outflow from spot BTC ETFs since June ($485 million) and reports that the US is preparing strikes on Iran, which pushed oil and UST yields higher again.
  • Base case through the daily close: sideways at $81,800⁠–⁠84,000.
  • The main reason: leverage has already been partly flushed, funding is near zero and the Polymarket median for tomorrow is $82,975, but US demand is still missing, so the risk of a test of $81,000 outweighs the chance of a quick return to $85,000.
Price has moved -1.5% since the morning: $82,927 in the brief, $81,700 now. The scenarios below were set from the morning price.
BTC / USD
$81,700
24h-1.8%7d-3.7%30d+4.1%
120 days of daily closes; dashed — EMA 20 and EMA 50. Binance, updated Oct 8, 5:45 PM ET.
Fear & Greed
64
greed, yesterday 71
Funding Binance, 8h
0.000%
30-day avg 0.004%
Open interest, Binance
$7.58B
24h -5.4%
Below ATH
-35.2%
ATH $126,080
Max pain, Deribit
$84,000
expiry Oct 9
RSI (1D)
47
neutral

Bitcoin price prediction for October 8, 2026

Three scenarios for the day with probabilities. Recorded in the morning and never edited: checked against the close in the Accuracy section.

base case
Sideways
$81,800–$84,000
47%
47%
35%
18%
Resistance
$83,500
$84,400
$85,500
Support
$82,200
$81,000
$80,000
Sideways · 47%
$81,800–$84,000

Leverage is shrinking (Binance OI −1.75% on the day), funding is near zero and RSI is at 51 — not oversold, but not overheated either. Friday's expiry max pain at $84,000 pulls the price up, while the Polymarket median for Oct 9 of $82,975 with an interquartile range of $81,500⁠–⁠84,400 points to trading around current levels.

Pullback · 35%
$79,500–$81,800

The $485 million BTC ETF outflow, a negative Coinbase premium and a selling US session all point to weak demand. MACD is widening to the downside, and the price is below the EMA20 and below $83,000, where FxPro sees a path to $80,000. A retail long/short of 1.69 is fuel for further long liquidations into the $81,000⁠–⁠81,250 zone, where large bids sit.

Breakout · 18%
$84,000–$86,000

Calls still dominate (put/call 0.58), Fear & Greed at 64 shows no panic, and stablecoin inflows continue. De-escalation around Iran and a pullback in oil and UST yields could bring the price back to $84,000⁠–⁠85,500, but that would require ETF inflows to return.

What to watch today
  • Iran headlines and Brent above $100: rising oil lifts UST yields and weighs on BTC
  • Holding $82,200⁠–⁠82,500 (overnight low and Wintermute's support) or a break toward $81,000
  • Jobless claims and Waller's speech today, plus the 30-year UST auction this evening (Moscow time)
  • BTC ETF flow data for Oct 8 (due overnight, Moscow time): will outflows continue after −$485 million
  • Friday's expiry of 22,313 BTC with max pain at $84,000
This is not investment advice. The forecast is recorded in the morning and never edited: after the daily close it is checked in the “Accuracy” section.
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Market pulse

What usually takes five different sites: how overheated the market is, what money on Polymarket is betting on, where demand comes from and who is getting liquidated right now.

Market temperature

One number from 8 cycle and sentiment indicators: 0 is panic and historically cheap, 100 is euphoria and overheating.

36
Coolthe market has cooled, no overheating
0255075100
What goes into the temperature
MVRVmarket value vs. the price all coins were bought at
1.55
28
Mayer multipleprice vs. the 200-day average
1.14
30
Above the 200-week averagehow far price is above the long-cycle floor
+22.7%
15
Pi Cycle1.0 is the historical top signal
0.46
22
Below all-time highthe closer to ATH, the hotter
-35.2%
56
Fear & Greedalternative.me sentiment index
64
64
Funding, annualizedaverage of Binance, Bybit, OKX and Hyperliquid
4.8%
30
RSI (1D)daily chart momentum
47
45
Temperature by day
Short-term holder cost basis: $73,605 — average price of coins bought in the last 155 days (BGeometrics, data as of October 1, 2026, free tier delayed 7 days)

What the market thinks: Polymarket odds

Money, not opinions: probabilities implied by Polymarket bets. Refreshed every 15 minutes.

Market median for October 9, 2026, 12:00 ET
$81,675
half of outcomes fall within $80,593–$82,974; chance to be above the current price: 49%
Our base case for the October 8, 2026 close: sideways $81,800–$84,000
Probability BTC will be above the level
$76,000
99%
$78,000
98%
$80,000
89%
$82,000
42%
$84,000
7%
$86,000
1%
Source: Polymarket · bet volume $564,437
Higher or lower than today 12:00 ET, by 12:00 ET October 9, 2026
higher 70%
lower 30%
October targets: price BTC will touch
↑ $82,50082%
↑ $85,00061%
↑ $87,50042%
↑ $90,00030%
↓ $80,00078%
↓ $77,50054%
↓ $75,00034%
↓ $72,50020%
Fed decision, meeting October 27–28
No change84%
25 bps increase16%
25 bps decrease0%
Fed decision, meeting December 8–9
25 bps increase76%
No change22%
50+ bps increase3%

Squeeze risk: who is overcrowded — longs or shorts

Our indicator: futures positioning on 4 exchanges, basis, Deribit options and liquidations. Each input is compared with its own 7-day norm; updated every 15 minutes.

−16
Longs leanpositioning tilts long, but not extreme
3-day backdrop+25Shorts lean7 days: +23hourly average — the slow line, like smoothed oscillators
−100 · longs0shorts · +100
14 days, hourly
InputNowContribution
Funding, 4-exchange average, per 8hBinance, Bybit, OKX, Hyperliquid; negative means shorts pay longs
0.0059%
−0.8σ
Basis: perp vs spotperp below spot means shorts are pressing
-0.054%
+0.6σ
Long/short, all accountsshare of accounts long vs short
1.93
−2.5σ
Long/short, top tradersby position size of the largest accounts
1.64
+1.1σ
Taker buy/sell, 6hwho is more aggressive: buyers or sellers
0.99
+0.1σ
Deribit options: puts vs calls25Δ risk reversal, ~30 days; negative means downside protection is pricier
-2.70 ptshistory building up
+0.7σ
Liquidations, 24hwho got flushed: positive means longs, long crowding cleared
+86%longs $124.93M / shorts $9.26M
+1.3σ
Open interestabove norm means more leverage, more fuel for a squeeze
$7.59B24h -5.2%
fuel 0.0σ

This is a risk gauge, not a direction call: a squeeze only happens if price moves against the crowded side. Confirmation is a range break together with liquidations and falling open interest.

BTC liquidations on Binance: live

Positions the exchange closes by force. Binance publishes at most one liquidation per second, so this is a lower bound.

Waiting for the first liquidations… The feed fills in real time.
More: Coinbase premium, funding by exchange, stablecoins, companies holding BTC
Coinbase premium
-0.021%
Almost no gap: Coinbase and Binance trade level
Binance price converted to USD at USDT $0.9992
Stablecoins in circulation
$313.95B
+0.50% this week, +1.15% this month: "dry powder" for crypto buying
Funding by exchange, annualized
Binance
0.3%
Bybit
10.3%
OKX
2.0%
Hyperliquid
6.6%
positive: longs pay shorts, the market expects upside
Bitcoin in corporate treasuries
1,300,009 BTC
180 companies hold 1,300,009 BTC (6.2% of 21M)
Strategy847,999 BTC
Twenty One Capital43,514 BTC
Metaplanet43,000 BTC
MARA Holdings35,303 BTC

Daily brief

Nine topics, three key facts each. Every fact links to its primary source.

1Price and market

  • BTC at $82,927 as of 05:30 UTC, −1.5% over 24h; daily range $82,228⁠–⁠84,379. Overnight the price fell below the Sep 28⁠–⁠30 lows to its lowest level since Sep 21; the morning candle opened at $83,322.Binance
  • Yesterday's daily candle (Oct 7) closed at $83,322 (−2.6%): the third straight down day and the lowest daily close in 17 days.Bloomingbit
  • −2.3% on the week, +5.7% over 30 days. Weekly high $87,220, low $82,228 (set today). The 30-day range is $74,968⁠–⁠87,396, and the price has dropped back to its middle.Binance
4 more facts
  • Binance BTCUSDT spot volume was 20,435 BTC (~$1.71 billion) over 24h versus 15,424 BTC the day before: the decline is coming on rising turnover.Binance
  • BTC market cap $1.67 trillion, dominance 58.7%; total crypto market $2.83 trillion, −4.0% on the day: altcoins are again falling harder than bitcoin.CoinGecko
  • Ether lost about 3% to ~$2,570, XRP nearly 4% to $1.42, Dogecoin 3%, while Solana and HYPE fell more than 2%.CoinDesk
  • The all-time high of $126,080 was set on Oct 6, 2025; the price is now 34.2% below it and down 32% year over year.CoinGecko

2Technical analysis

  • Daily RSI(14) at 51.3 versus 56.6 a day ago: the indicator has slipped to mid-scale, no oversold reading.Binance
  • MACD 1,444 versus a 1,862 signal line, histogram −418 versus −223 yesterday: the bearish gap between the lines has widened for a fourth day, downside momentum is building.Binance
  • Price has dropped below the EMA20 ($83,453), which still held yesterday. Next averages below: EMA50 $79,704, 50-week MA $77,136, EMA200 $75,363; the Sep 13 golden cross remains intact for now.Binance
5 more facts
  • Resistance: $83,450⁠–⁠83,550 (EMA20 and today's candle high), $84,000⁠–⁠84,400 (yesterday's daily high and Friday's max pain), then $85,500.Binance
  • Support: $82,200 (overnight low), $81,000⁠–⁠81,250 — the largest cluster of bids per Glassnode — then the round $80,000.Glassnode
  • FxPro: a break of $83,000 confirms sellers are in control and could fairly quickly take the price to $80,000. The price is now below that mark.CoinDesk
  • CoinLab fractals: of 6 similar two-week stretches in history, 3 ended higher, with a median of +0.5% over 2 weeks; on the 50-day window 5 of 6 went up with a median of +8.6%, on the six-month window 3 of 6 with a median of +2.8%.CoinLab
  • Polymarket puts the median price for Oct 9 (16:00 UTC) at $82,975, interquartile range $81,505⁠–⁠84,409, with a 50.5% chance of being higher by tomorrow. Our sideways base case of $81,800⁠–⁠84,000 nearly matches the market's view.Polymarket

3Derivatives

  • Across the crypto market, $547⁠–⁠556 million was liquidated in the 24h to the morning of Oct 7, about $480⁠–⁠487 million of it longs (88%); 101,772 traders were hit. BTC accounted for $142.9 million, ETH took the most at $174.9 million.Cryptotimes
  • Binance BTCUSDT liquidation flow (lower-bound estimate): about $49.3 million of longs liquidated over the past day versus $3.8 million of shorts — the selling pressure continued overnight into Oct 8.Binance
  • Binance BTCUSDT open interest at 96,428 BTC ($7.99 billion): −1.75% on the day and −0.9% on the week. Leverage is shrinking, and new shorts are not piling into the decline.Binance
4 more facts
  • Binance account long/short ratio jumped to 1.69 (62.8% long) from 1.11 yesterday: retail is buying the dip. Top traders at 1.62, taker buy/sell at 0.93 — aggressive selling.Binance
  • Binance BTCUSDT funding at +0.0008% per 8h versus a 30-day average of +0.0044%: near zero, no overheating.Binance
  • Funding elsewhere: Bybit −0.0011%, OKX +0.0061%, Hyperliquid +0.01% per 8h (−1.2%, +6.7% and +11% annualized). Binance futures trade $41 below the index — a slight discount.Bybit
  • Glassnode: 83% of futures liquidation levels sit below the current price, with the largest cluster above at $92,000; altcoin leverage is the highest since the October 2025 crash.Glassnode

4Options

  • Deribit BTC options open interest at 373,409 BTC ($30.9 billion) versus 362,563 BTC a day ago; put/call by OI at 0.58: calls still dominate the book.Deribit
  • DVOL at 38.8 versus 35.9 yesterday and 35.2 a week ago: implied volatility has started rising on the decline.Deribit
  • Today (Oct 8) 4,564 BTC expire with max pain at $84,500, put/call 0.64; the next big expiry is Friday, Oct 9 — 22,313 BTC (~$1.85 billion), max pain $84,000, put/call 1.13. Both levels are $1,100⁠–⁠1,600 above the price.Deribit
3 more facts
  • Oct 16: 11,250 BTC, max pain $83,000, put/call 1.38 — demand for put protection is noticeably stronger in near-dated series than in longer-dated ones.Deribit
  • Monthly expiry Oct 30: 133,754 BTC (36% of total OI), max pain $79,000, put/call 0.44. Quarterly Dec 25: 122,079 BTC, max pain $75,000; Nov 27: 21,347 BTC, max pain $80,000.Deribit
  • Glassnode as of Oct 7: put/call 0.56, traders spend roughly $17 million a day more on calls than on puts, so the options market is still positioned for upside.Glassnode

5ETFs and institutions

  • Spot BTC ETFs lost $485⁠–⁠487 million on Oct 7 — the largest daily outflow since June 25. IBIT −$207.7 million, FBTC −$105.1 million, ARKB −$101.7 million, GBTC −$39.3 million, BITB −$27.6 million.Bloomingbit
  • Cumulative net inflows into all spot BTC ETFs fell to $57.33 billion (IBIT: $65.72 billion); fund assets total $107.4 billion, or 6.41% of bitcoin's market cap.Tokenpost
  • The week has been choppy: Oct 5 outflow of $89.9 million, Oct 6 inflow of $118.8 million, Oct 7 outflow of $485 million — about −$456 million net over three days.SoSoValue
3 more facts
  • Strategy holds about 848,000 BTC; over Oct 1⁠–⁠4 the company added 334 BTC at an average $85,839, and its cost basis is $75,441 per coin — a cushion of about 10%. MSTR shares fell 5.9% on Oct 7.Strategy
  • Crypto stocks were also under pressure on Oct 7: Coinbase −4.2%, Circle −5.1%, Gemini −6.1%.CoinDesk
  • Public companies hold 1,300,009 BTC (6.19% of supply, 180 companies). After Strategy come Twenty One Capital (43,514 BTC), Metaplanet (43,000) and MARA (35,303).CoinGecko

6Sentiment and on-chain

  • Fear & Greed Index at 64 ("Greed"): 71 yesterday, 74 a week ago, 69 a month ago. The drop has cooled sentiment, but there is no fear yet.alternative.me
  • Coinbase premium at −0.079% (−$65 vs Binance) versus −0.023% yesterday: US buyers are selling harder than the rest of the market, consistent with the ETF outflows.Coinbase
  • Glassnode: on Oct 4 short-term holders accounted for 86% of exchange inflow volume — the year's high; the US session has remained a net seller since the Sep 21 breakout.Glassnode
5 more facts
  • Glassnode: realized cap rose $12.8 billion over 30 days, but only $4.9 billion of fresh money came in via ETFs and stablecoins; average spot volume of $6.8 billion a day is lower than on 90% of days since January 2024. The rally ran on thin fuel.Glassnode
  • 7-day BTC inflows to Binance as of Oct 5 fell to 32,642 BTC (11th percentile for the year): no large-scale exchange selling, though the whale share of inflows has risen.Coin-turk
  • MVRV at 1.55 on Oct 7 (42nd historical percentile): the market is in profit but far from overheated. Short-term holder cost basis was $73,605 as of Oct 1 — the price is 13% above it.Coinmetrics
  • Mayer Multiple 1.16, price 24.6% above the 200-week average of $66,576, Pi Cycle 0.457. CoinLab "market temperature" at 37 out of 100 (39 yesterday, 42 the day before): mid-cycle.CoinLab
  • Stablecoins at $314.0 billion: +0.51% on the week and +$3.6 billion (+1.2%) over 30 days. Fresh liquidity inflows have slowed but not reversed.Defillama

7Mining

  • Hashrate 978 EH/s, difficulty 132.72 T, block height 970,446.mempool.space
  • Next retarget expected Oct 16: 37.2% of the epoch done, 1,266 blocks left, current estimate +5.9% (+6.3% yesterday). The previous adjustment was −0.03%.mempool.space
  • Fees at rock bottom: 2 sat/vB for the next block and 1 sat/vB for a one-hour wait. Blockspace demand is minimal.mempool.space
2 more facts
  • Hashprice was $39.87 per PH/s per day as of Sep 28, with fees making up just 0.7% of miner revenue. Since then BTC is lower and difficulty is rising: mining margins are being squeezed.Hashrateindex
  • 79,554 blocks to the halving, estimated Apr 12, 2028.mempool.space

8Macro

  • FOMC minutes for Sep 15⁠–⁠16: all 19 participants backed the hike to 3.75⁠–⁠4.00%, and most see another hike before year-end as appropriate. Market reaction was muted — a hawkish tone was expected.CoinDesk
  • Polymarket for the Oct 27⁠–⁠28 meeting: hold 83.5%, 25 bp hike 15.5%. For December (Dec 8⁠–⁠9): 25 bp hike 73.5%, no change 23.5%.Polymarket
  • 10Y UST yield closed Oct 7 at 5.28% (+1 bp), 2Y at 4.77% (−2 bp, −11 bp over 5 days). Intraday the 10-year hit 5.37%, and the 30-year set a new high at 5.715%.Treasury
5 more facts
  • The 10-year UST auction stopped at 5.30% versus 4.83% in September; foreign demand was strong, with indirect bidders taking 80.3%.CoinDesk
  • On the morning of Oct 8 the 10Y yield rose another 2 bp to 5.31%, near its highest since 2002, as oil jumped.CoinDesk
  • S&P 500 closed at 7,802 (−0.22%), Nasdaq at 27,539 (−0.22%), VIX 15.1. Indices have pulled back from records but are falling a third as much as bitcoin.Yahoo Finance
  • Oil: Brent above $102 this morning (+2%), WTI $90.1 (+2.1% on the day). Dollar index DXY 102.23 (+0.13% over 5 days).CoinDesk
  • Gold at $4,156 (+0.36%) after falling more than 2% on Oct 7 to ~$4,070; silver below $60. Today in the US: jobless claims, a speech by Waller and a 30-year UST auction; Oct 9 the University of Michigan index; Oct 14 CPI.Yahoo Finance

9Regulation and events

  • Reports that the White House asked the Pentagon for options to strike Iran pushed oil higher; the Houthis attacked two Saudi airports, and a US storm hit oil output.CoinDesk
  • Wintermute's Jasper De Maere: crypto is reacting to geopolitical stress more sharply than US equities; key BTC support is $82,500. The price is now just above it.CoinDesk
  • On Oct 5 the CFTC proposed the CTX and CAM rules — the first rules for crypto exchanges where retail trades with leverage and margin; comments are open for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. CFTC Chair Mike Selig said on Oct 7 the rules will prevent a repeat of the FTX collapse.Cryptonomist
3 more facts
  • The CFTC proposal lists XRP, Stellar and Tezos as digital commodities alongside bitcoin and ether.247wallst
  • Rep. French Hill says the SEC and CFTC rules are not enough and hopes to pass a crypto market structure bill before the new session of Congress in 2027; the SEC and CFTC leadership have 7 vacancies, and Hester Peirce has left the SEC.Crypto
  • ETH dominance at 11.1% versus 58.7% for BTC; the whole market is −4.0% on the day versus −1.5% for bitcoin: in sell-offs capital is still sticking with BTC.CoinGecko

Bitcoin fractals: what today’s chart looks like

We take the latest 4-hour Bitcoin candles and search the entire history since 2017 for stretches of the same shape, including ones that played out faster or slower. Then we look at what happened next. This is statistics of similar situations, not a prediction.

2 weeks: Closest matches in history
2022-09-03 — 2022-09-14: then +3.1%, after -6.0%
2021-03-29 — 2021-04-18: then +1.4%, after +5.7%
2023-02-04 — 2023-02-25: then -1.1%, after +18.6%
50 days: Closest matches in history
2023-01-11 — 2023-04-20: then +62.2%, after +3.8%
2025-04-21 — 2025-05-16: then +19.2%, after +5.1%
2023-10-23 — 2023-11-16: then +17.7%, after +15.4%
6 months: Closest matches in history
2018-09-15 — 2019-06-12: then +25.3%, after -0.9%
2025-01-15 — 2025-05-30: then +8.5%, after +6.5%
2022-10-05 — 2023-02-16: then +16.5%, after +29.7%

Bitcoin market data

Live data from Binance, CoinGecko, Deribit, mempool.space, alternative.me and Yahoo Finance. Refreshed every 15 minutes.

Market

Market cap
$1.64T
dominance 59.1%, total market $2.77T
24h spot volume, Binance
$1.79B
21,751 BTC
Circulating supply
20,095,343 BTC
95.7% of 21M
Weekly high / low
$87,220 / $80,394
30-day $87,396 / $74,968

Technicals

MACD histogram (1D)
-496
line 1,347, signal 1,843
EMA 20 / 50 / 200
$83,336
$79,656 / $75,351
50-week moving average
$77,111
price above: bull phase

Derivatives and options

Long / short, Binance
1.69
longs 62.8%, top traders 1.62
Taker buy / sell
0.93
above 1: buyers more aggressive
Open interest, 7d
-7.6%
now 92,773 BTC
Put / call by open interest
0.60
options worth $31.51B
DVOL volatility
37.9
a week ago 35.2
Next big expiry, Deribit
Oct 9
22,008 BTC, max pain $84,000, put/call 1.01

Bitcoin network

Hashrate
986 EH/s
difficulty 132.7 T
Next difficulty adjustment
+4.0%
around October 16, 2026, 1,178 blocks left
Transaction fee
4 sat/vB
block 970,534, 79,466 blocks to halving

Macro

US dollar index DXY
102.11
day -0.1%, week +0.0%
UST 10Y yield
5.22%
day -6 bp, week -2 bp (U.S. Treasury, October 8, 2026)
UST 2Y yield
4.75%
day -2 bp, week -3 bp (U.S. Treasury, October 8, 2026)
Gold
$4,158
day +0.4%, week -1.0%
WTI crude
$91.18
day +3.3%, week -1.8%
S&P 500
7,765
day -0.5%, week +1.3%
Nasdaq
27,193
day -1.3%, week +1.2%
VIX
15.4
day +2.2%, week -6.0%

Forecast accuracy

Every morning the scenarios are recorded; after the UTC daily close we check which range the price landed in. Misses are not hidden.

Days with a forecast
2
Base case came true
100%
the daily close landed inside the most likely scenario’s range
At least one scenario right
100%
the close landed inside one of the three ranges
DayMorning priceCloseBase caseCame trueHit
October 7, 2026$84,194$83,322 (-2.6%) Sideways, 50%Sidewaysyes
October 6, 2026$85,674$85,550 (-0.2%) Sideways, 60%Sidewaysyes

Bitcoin today: frequently asked questions

What is the Bitcoin price today?

As of Oct 8, 5:45 PM ET, Bitcoin trades at $81,700: -1.8% over 24 hours, -3.7% over 7 days and +4.1% over 30 days. It is 35.2% below its all-time high of $126,080 (October 6, 2025). The price on this page refreshes every 15 minutes from Binance.

What is the Bitcoin price prediction for today?

The base case for October 8, 2026 is sideways within $81,800–$84,000, with 47% probability. Other scenarios: pullback $79,500–$81,800 (35%); breakout $84,000–$86,000 (18%). Nearest resistance $83,500, $84,400, $85,500, support $82,200, $81,000, $80,000. This is not investment advice.

What do Bitcoin fractals show?

Over the last 50 days Bitcoin moved +29.5%. Of the 6 most similar stretches in history since 2017, 5 continued higher, with a median move of +8.6% afterwards. Fractals show statistics of similar situations, not a guarantee.

Where does the data come from and how often is the brief updated?

Numbers come from Binance, CoinGecko, Deribit, mempool.space, alternative.me and Yahoo Finance every 15 minutes. A daily brief with 61 items and a forecast is published every morning, and every item links to its source. Forecast accuracy is checked after each daily close.

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