1Price and market
- As of 8:45 AM ET Thursday, Bitcoin traded at $80,118: −1.0% on the day, −1.6% on the week and −4.2% over 30 days; the daily candle opened at $81,344, so the day was red so far.Binance
- The 24-hour range was $79,710–81,789: the high came Wednesday evening after the Fed decision, the low overnight during the Asian session as Nasdaq futures dropped 1% after Alphabet's earnings.Ethnews
- The European session was quiet: from 1:00 AM to 8:30 AM ET the price held within $80,000–80,300, and five-minute volume on Binance never exceeded 35 BTC.Binance
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- The reaction to the 8:30 AM ET data was token: the five-minute candle on the release ran from $80,027 to $80,268 on 97 BTC of volume and closed at $80,074; at 8:43 AM ET the price was $80,124.Binance
- The low of the week and the month is $79,221 (Oct 24), the weekly high $82,061, the monthly high $87,220; Bitcoin is closing out October down about 4%.Binance
- Spot volume on Binance over 24 hours was 13,957 BTC, about $1.13 billion: trading around the Fed and the data passed without a spike in turnover.Binance
- Bitcoin's market cap stood at $1.61 trillion with dominance at 59.4% (ETH at 10.5%); total crypto market cap was $2.70 trillion, −4.0% on the day — altcoins were falling faster than Bitcoin.CoinGecko
- The price sat 36.6% below the all-time high of $126,080 (Oct 6, 2025); year over year it was −29.3%.CoinGecko
- The Coinbase premium was −0.03% (about −$20 versus Binance, adjusted for the USDT rate): no sign of US spot buyers ahead of the open.Coinbase
- At 8:30 AM ET ETH was $2,308, SOL $99.7, XRP $1.28, BNB $748: Ripple and Solana were under pressure, and total market cap lost 4% on the day.Ethnews
2Technical analysis
- The price was below the EMA20 ($81,636) and EMA50 ($80,798): the overnight drop broke through the EMA50, and by 8:45 AM ET it had not been reclaimed; the EMA200 ($76,530) sits far below.Binance
- RSI(14) at 42.6: below the neutral 50 but not oversold; MACD at −489 under the signal line at −247, with the histogram at −242 and widening — momentum remained with the sellers.Binance
- The golden cross of the daily MA50/MA200 from Sep 13 remains in force; the 50-week moving average at $75,810 is the last line of the medium-term trend.Binance
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- Resistances: EMA50 $80,800, EMA20 $81,640, the 24-hour high $81,790 and the weekly high $82,060, then $84,400. Supports: the overnight low $79,710, the weekly low $79,220, the Friday expiry max pain $78,000 and the EMA200 $76,530.Binance
- The Mayer multiple was 1.10 (price 10% above the 200-day SMA of $73,111), the 57th percentile historically; the 200-week moving average was $67,555, with the price 18.6% above it.Binance
- Pi Cycle: SMA111 at $74,805 versus twice the SMA350 at $152,406, a ratio of 0.49 — a cycle-top signal is a long way off.Binance
- Fractals: in the two-week window 4 of 6 similar historical patterns ended higher (median +0.5%), in the six-month window 5 of 6 (median +6.9%), but in the 50-day window only 2 of 6 (median −3.5%).CoinLab
- Polymarket for 12:00 PM ET Friday gives a median of $80,156 and an interquartile range of $78,879–81,267: our sideways range of $79,000–81,700 is wider than the market's on the upside and matches it on the downside.Polymarket
- The probability of a price above $80,000 on Friday is 53.5%, above $82,000 8.5%, below $78,000 8%: the prediction market expects no sharp move, and the up-or-down bet is split exactly 50/50.Polymarket
- Polymarket month targets: a touch of $82,500 before the end of October at 18.5%, $77,500 at 15.5%, $75,000 at 2.5%; two days remain until the monthly close.Polymarket
- CoinLab's "market temperature" was 34 of 100 (36 yesterday): MVRV, the Mayer multiple and the 200-week moving average are cold, while Fear & Greed at 51 and the distance to the ATH are neutral.CoinLab
3Derivatives
- 24-hour liquidations as of Thursday morning came to $374 million market-wide across 84,714 traders: $219 million in longs and $155 million in shorts; $97 million in Bitcoin, $82 million in Ether, the largest single order $6.5 million in ETHUSDT on Binance.CoinGlass
- During the day on Oct 28 the picture was the reverse: $167–172 million liquidated, of which $110–116 million were shorts — the whipsaw around the Fed hit both sides.Phemex
- Binance futures open interest was 96,674 BTC ($7.74 billion): −1.2% on the day, +2.0% on the week; the overnight drop flushed some leverage, and no new money came in.Binance
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- Binance funding was 0.0091% per 8 hours (10% APR) against a 30-day average of 0.0040%: the rate doubled in a day, and longs were again paying to hold their positions.Binance
- Funding on Bybit was 0.0046%, on OKX 0.0075%, on Hyperliquid 0.01% per 8 hours (11% APR): the long skew was being paid for on all four venues.Hyperliquid
- 65.4% of Binance accounts were long (ratio 1.89), top traders at 1.86; takers were slightly net selling (0.995): the crowd was looking up, the price was not.Binance
- Hyperliquid whales have been net short since last week for the first time since March: $1.45 billion in shorts versus $1.22 billion in longs as of Oct 26; Glassnode sees a liquidation band near $79,600.Crypto
- The CoinLab squeeze index was −14 of 100: funding and basis slightly positive, but top traders cut longs (z −2), and 24-hour liquidations in the Binance feed were $19.7 million in longs versus $10.2 million in shorts — no fuel for a sharp squeeze.CoinLab
4Options
- Tomorrow, Oct 30, at 08:00 UTC (4:00 AM ET), 135,656 BTC of options worth $10.9 billion expire on Deribit — 34% of total open interest; max pain $78,000, put/call 0.52.Deribit
- Going into expiry the price was $2,100 above max pain: option sellers have an interest in keeping the market closer to $78,000–80,000 until 4:00 AM ET Friday.Crypto Briefing
- The November expiry (Nov 27) holds 42,271 BTC with max pain at $81,000; the December expiry (Dec 25) 135,526 BTC with max pain at $75,000.Deribit
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- DVOL was 36.5 versus 37.1 a week ago: the expected daily move is about ±1.9%, or ±$1,550; neither the Fed nor the data lifted the volatility premium.Deribit
- Total options open interest was 398,854 BTC ($31.9 billion), put/call 0.60: calls still dominate.Deribit
- 87% of the open calls in Friday's expiry are struck above the market, the largest block about 24,000 BTC at the $95,000 strike: most of the upside bets will expire worthless.Crypto Briefing
- The November skew was −3.0 in favor of puts: downside protection costs more than upside bets.Deribit
- ETH options — 322,586 ETH, about $750 million — expire at the same time with max pain at $2,500 against a price of $2,308.Cryptoticker
5ETFs and institutions
- Spot BTC ETFs took in $137.3 million on Oct 28: IBIT +$136.0 million, BITB +$1.3 million, the rest flat — a third straight day of inflows, but 22% less than the day before.Tokenpost
- Over the three sessions of Oct 26–28 the funds drew $423.6 million, only partly offsetting the $635 million outflow from mid-month; cumulative inflows since launch stand at $57.61 billion.Crypto Briefing
- Flows for Oct 29 will be known in the evening after the US close; a day with Alphabet down 10% will test whether buying through IBIT continues.Farside
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- Ether ETFs lost $21.4 million on Oct 28 (a third day of outflows); $1.1–1.3 billion left them in October — the worst month of 2026.Crypto Briefing
- Strategy bought no Bitcoin in the week of Oct 19–25 (848,517 BTC at an average of $75,446, $64.02 billion in total) and instead spent $204.9 million buying back STRC preferred shares; the buyback cap was raised from $2 billion to $3 billion.SEC
- Strategy reports Q3 results today after the close (4:00 PM ET): consensus is $21.49 per share on revenue of $128.3 million; the company missed in each of the two previous quarters, and earnings hinge on the Bitcoin revaluation.Earningswhispers
- On Oct 15 MSCI approved its rule on "non-operating companies": the exclusion list will be published Nov 11, with changes effective Nov 30 — Strategy and Metaplanet are in the risk zone.Tradingview
- 181 public companies hold 1.31 million BTC ($105.0 billion, 6.25% of supply): Strategy 848,517, Metaplanet 44,000, Twenty One 43,514, Strive 43,000, MARA 35,577.CoinGecko
6Sentiment and on-chain
- The Fear & Greed index was 51 ("neutral") for a second straight day; a week ago it was 68, a month ago 73: greed drained away in two weeks.alternative.me
- MVRV was 1.50 as of Oct 28, the 39th percentile historically; the average cost basis of short-term holders was $75,781 (as of Oct 22), support $4,300 below the market.Coinmetrics
- Three whales moved 6,168 BTC ($498.5 million) to Coinbase Prime on Oct 28; a day earlier two wallets dormant for three years sent 2,571 BTC ($206.5 million) there.Kucoin
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- On Oct 27, 14,942 BTC ($1.1 billion) left exchanges — the largest daily outflow in five weeks; CryptoQuant's preliminary data shows a net outflow of 12,570 BTC after an inflow of 7,000 BTC the day before.Kucoin
- Per Santiment, wallets holding 10–10,000 BTC bought 86,702 BTC (about $7 billion) in the three weeks to Oct 10; small wallets were taking profit.Yahoo Finance
- Per CryptoQuant, small holders are moving coins to Binance at the fastest pace in six months, while whale deposits have fallen by a third since late August: retail is selling, whales are holding.99bitcoins
- Stablecoins stood at $302.0 billion: −1.1% on the week, −$6.0 billion (−1.95%) on the month; dry powder on exchanges is shrinking.Defillama
- Wednesday's bounce to $80,000 was three-quarters short covering rather than buying, and overnight the price slipped back below the level — no spot demand for a reversal is visible yet.Mitrade
7Mining
- The difficulty adjustment is due today: 98.2% of the epoch done, 37 blocks left, an expected +5.8% — from 140.58 to roughly 148.7 trillion, the highest since March; estimated at around 2–3 PM ET.mempool.space
- Hashrate was 1,091 EH/s; the 7-day average as of Oct 28 was 1,074 EH/s, 6.8% below the October 2025 record (1,153 EH/s).Yahoo Finance
- Fees were 2 sat/vB for fast and 1 sat/vB for hour-long confirmation: the mempool is empty, with no demand for block space.mempool.space
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- Hashprice was about $36–37 per PH/s per day (Oct 16), with miner revenue 23% below a year ago; today's difficulty jump will cut it by roughly another 5%.Bitcoin.com
- Block 973,691; 76,309 blocks to the halving, estimated around Apr 11, 2028.mempool.space
8Macro
- US Q3 GDP (advance estimate, 8:30 AM ET) came in at +3.4% annualized versus 3.2% forecast and 2.2% in Q2, the fastest growth in a year: private investment +19.4%, equipment +20.9%, consumption +3.8%, inventories added 1.61 pp; imports +19.7% and exports −5.7% held growth back.Trading Economics
- September PCE was 3.6% YoY (3.4% in August), core 3.1% YoY (3.0%) and 0.3% MoM: all exactly in line with forecasts — inflation is accelerating, but there is no surprise for the Fed; real spending 0.0% MoM, income below expectations.Trading Economics
- Initial jobless claims were 194K versus 199K forecast and 195K the week before; continuing claims 1.701 million (−21K): the labor market is firm, giving no reason to ease.FXStreet
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- Reaction to the data package: the dollar regained a "modest plus" above 102 on the DXY, and Bitcoin stayed within $80,030–80,270 over 15 minutes; strong GDP and in-line inflation do not change the bets on a December hike.FXStreet
- On Oct 28 the Fed left the rate at 3.75–4.00% by a 10–2 vote: Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack voted for +25 bp; Warsh declined to give guidance on December and called the coming weeks "data-heavy". The next meeting is Dec 8–9.Federal Reserve
- FedWatch: the probability of a December hike was 78–87% by estimates after the press conference; Polymarket gives 76.5% for +25 bp in December and 67.5% for a pause in January.Polymarket
- The 10-year Treasury yield was 5.02% (Oct 28 close 5.05%, +6 bp), the 2-year 4.70%; DXY 102.2, +0.6% over five days.Trading Economics
- Nasdaq-100 futures were −1.2% ahead of the open (around 29,620), S&P 500 −0.4% (around 7,750), the Dow in the green: Alphabet −10% premarket after missing on revenue ($127.58 billion versus $128.2 billion) and earnings ($2.12 versus $3.02 on an $8.2 billion loss on its SpaceX stake), Microsoft +3% on Azure +48%.Investing.com
- Wednesday's regular US session closed higher for a third straight day: S&P 500 at 7,744 (+0.28%), Nasdaq at 26,550 (+0.27%), VIX 17.3.Yahoo Finance
- Europe ahead of the ECB: Stoxx 600 +0.1% (644.8 at 4:06 AM ET), with energy, Shell and Airbus holding the index up and the tech sector in the red; in Asia the Kospi fell 2.6% after +6.8% the day before, the Nikkei +0.3%, the Hang Seng +0.2%.Investing.com
- ECB at 9:15 AM ET: a pause is expected with the deposit rate at 2.50%, and the market prices 80% odds of a December hike; at Lagarde's 9:45 AM ET press conference the focus is French bonds and the question of her possible departure.Investing.com
- Brent was $114.3 (−0.9%), WTI $101.6: oil is retreating from four-year highs on news of US–Iran talks through intermediaries, but it is up 17% for October — the inflationary backdrop for the Fed persists.Trading Economics
- Gold was $4,040 (−0.3% on the day, −0.5% over five days): with the 10-year yield near 5%, the safe-haven metal is not rising alongside oil.Yahoo Finance
- Amazon reports today after the US close (call at 5:00 PM ET): FactSet consensus is revenue of $202.2 billion and AWS growth of 37.8%; after Alphabet's miss, the reaction to AI capex will set the tone for Friday.Benzinga
- Bank of Japan overnight Thursday into Friday, around 11 PM ET: a pause at 1.25% is expected with a hint at a December hike; USD/JPY is back above 158 — a hawkish tone would strengthen the yen and weigh on risk assets.FXStreet
9Regulation and events
- Treasury Secretary Bessent at the Ripple Swell conference on Oct 28: after the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate (cloture failed Sep 15), Treasury will close the gap between the SEC and CFTC through the agencies themselves, with or without Congress.Tokenpost
- Since Oct 5 the CFTC has been collecting comments on an advance notice of rules for retail leveraged crypto trading, including a new type of venue registered solely for such assets.Thehill
- SEC: the Regulation Crypto Assets proposal of Aug 19, with exemptions for startups (up to $5 million) and fundraising (up to $75 million) and a safe harbor for tokens, has completed its comment period; the vote on it has been postponed.Paulhastings
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- US midterm elections on Nov 3: Warsh stressed that politics did not influence the decision; the next Fed meeting on Dec 8–9 falls after the election, and from 2027 the number of rate-setting meetings will be cut.Foxbusiness
- Iran: talks with the US are running through intermediaries, but threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Saudi clashes with the Houthis keep Brent above $110 — supplies from the region have recovered to near pre-war levels.Trading Economics
- Calendar for the next 24 hours: 9:15 AM ET ECB, 9:30 AM US open, 2–3 PM difficulty adjustment, 4:00 PM Amazon and Strategy earnings, 8:00 PM daily candle close, around 11 PM Bank of Japan, 4:00 AM ET Friday the $10.9 billion Deribit expiry, 12:00 PM ET Friday Polymarket bet resolution.Deribit
- Further out: Nov 3 US elections, Nov 11 MSCI exclusion list, Nov 27 Deribit November expiry (max pain $81,000), Dec 8–9 Fed with new projections.Deribit