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The selling in Bitcoin and altcoin is not over yet, but data suggests that the nature of the CME Bitcoin and equities futures market open on Sunday will determine the direction BTC price takes. Key points: A sharp reduction in aggregate open interest highlights the severity of the $20 billion in leveraged liquidations and highlights traders’ reluctance to re-enter the market. Bitcoin selling and price weakness are likely to extend until CME BTC and equities futures markets open on Sunday evening, US hours. Read more

“Number go up” is not a retirement strategy. Long-term planning needs explicit assumptions, clear knobs to turn, and a way to translate a BTC balance into annual spending power. CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin retirement calculator does exactly that, marrying a transparent price path with macro toggles and two spending frameworks so you can think in dollars, years, […] The post How much Bitcoin will you need to retire? This new calculator will tell you appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin fell and altcoins crated Friday after President Trump ratcheted up his threats against China, fueling record crypto liquidations.

Bitcoin stayed near three-week lows after a giant $20 billion liquidation cascade, but crypto market predictions warned that the bottom was not yet in. Key points: Bitcoin and altcoins reel from the biggest liquidation event in crypto history. BTC price action fails to stage a rebound from multi-week lows, with $100,000 getting closer. Read more

The last time the Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped to this level of fear, Bitcoin’s price was trading around $80,000. Crypto market sentiment has dropped to its lowest level in almost six months after US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on China. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which gauges overall market sentiment, fell to a “Fear” level of 27 in its Saturday’s update, representing a decline of 37 points from Friday’s “Greed” reading of 64.  The decline came as Bitcoin (BTC) briefly dipped to $102,000 on the Binance perpetual futures pair following Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on Friday. Read more

An economist said Bitcoin declining more than 5% in October is “exceedingly rare,” and historically, the asset has usually rebounded within the following week. Bitcoin’s price may recover up to 21% over the coming seven days if October’s historical trends hold, an economist suggests. “Drops of more than 5% in October are exceedingly rare.  This has happened only 4 times in the past 10 years,” economist Timothy Peterson said in an X post on Friday.’ He said those instances occurred in October 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. In the week following each drop, Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded by 16% in 2017, 4% in 2018, and 21% in 2019. The only exception was 2021, when the crypto asset fell a further 3%. Read more

Bitcoin traded at $117,729.81 as of press time, struggling to extend gains from its $126,000 all-time high as short-term positioning dynamics and risk-off flows dominated the medium-term debasement thesis. The debasement trade thesis gained popularity after JPMorgan published a report on the topic on Oct. 1. The thesis is based on the expectation that fiscal […] The post If the debasement trade would catapult Bitcoin, why is the market down? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten said Bitcoin's price plunge on Friday was "classic macro whiplash," and Bitcoiners should expect turbulence in the short term. Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten said Bitcoin’s price volatility may not be over after the cryptocurrency briefly fell to $102,000 on Friday, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese imports. “If the broader risk-off mood holds, Bitcoin can get dragged around a bit before it finds support and starts to decouple again,” Klippsten told Cointelegraph on Friday. Klippsten said that Bitcoiners should expect some turbulence over the coming days. “Macro-driven dips like this usually wash out leveraged traders and weak hands, then reset positioning for the next leg up,” Klippsten said.  Read more

A sudden flash crash rattled crypto markets on Oct. 10, erasing billions in leveraged positions as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major tokens plunged before staging partial recoveries. Bitcoin fell more than 10% at its lowest point, slipping to $101,500 before rebounding to trade near $112,500 as of press time. Ethereum similarly dropped over 10% intraday […] The post Bitcoin’s whipsaw to 101k wipes out $7B in leveraged positions appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 7% amid a broader market rout after President Donald Trump announced that the US is considering escalating tariffs against China in response to newly imposed rare-earth export controls. Total liquidations reached $9 billion over the past 24 hours, as BTC fell to as low as $105k in the drop. On a lengthy statement on […] The post Trump tariff threat against China causes Bitcoin to crash 7%, $9B in liquidations appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin plunged to $102,000 in the Binance perpetual futures pair after Trump announced sweeping tariffs on China on Friday, reigniting fears of a broader trade and market sell-off. US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on China on Friday, sending the price of Bitcoin (BTC) reeling below $110,000 at the time of writing. Trump said the tariffs were in response to China attempting to place export restrictions on rare earth minerals, which are crucial for creating computer chips. Trump wrote on Truth Social: Trump’s first tariff announcements in April sent shockwaves through crypto markets and sparked fears of a recession. Read more

Bitcoin struggled to regain momentum as traders stayed cautious, gold hit record highs, and US-China trade tensions fueled a broader market sell-off. Key takeaways: Derivatives data show limited confidence among Bitcoin traders despite strong ETF inflows, keeping downside risks on the table. Gold’s surge and falling Treasury yields highlight growing investor fear as fiscal stress and trade disputes weigh on traders’ sentiment. Read more

Bitcoin tops $126,000 as Strategy’s BTC hoard swells; ICE backs Polymarket; Rezolve AI buys Smartpay; Plume gains SEC transfer-agent status. Big Tech companies that once dismissed Bitcoin (BTC) as a balance sheet asset are now watching Strategy, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, amass a digital asset treasury approaching the size of their own cash piles. The surge comes as Bitcoin hit a new all-time high above $126,000 this week, driven by investor demand for hard assets seen as hedges against US dollar debasement — a narrative increasingly likened to gold. However, Bitcoin isn’t the only corner of crypto attracting major institutional money. The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has invested $2 billion in Polymarket, a decentralized prediction platform, valuing the firm at roughly $9 billion. The move signals growing convergence between traditional finance and decentralized blockchain infrastructure, as institutions explore tokenized markets and real-world event forecasting. Meanwhile, Tether is back i...

So much for "Uptober." Bitcoin plunged Friday while Ethereum and Solana fell to October lows after President Trump's latest tariffs salvo.

Altcoins could rally as Bitcoin consolidates, but overleveraging may trigger cascading liquidations.

Strategy’s market net asset value (mNAV) compared to Bitcoin (BTC) its holdings dropped to 1.174 on Oct. 10, the lowest level in almost two years. The company’s shares fell 3% to $307.95 amid broader weakness in the crypto market, translating to a market cap of $88.4 billion. Strategy is the 121st-largest US public company, holding […] The post Strategy’s Bitcoin mNAV collapses to 1.174, lowest since February 2024 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An $11 billion Bitcoin whale returned to crypto markets this week, likely seeking trading opportunities tied to October’s historic crypto rallies and uncertainty in the US. Cryptocurrency markets showed signs of consolidation in the second week of October, even as investors continued to bet on another “Uptober” rally to new highs. Also in the news this week was the $11 billion Bitcoin (BTC) whale who returned after a two-month hiatus to transfer another $360 million in BTC, signaling a potential rotation into the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, with an additional $5 billion left in their wallet. In another potential Uptober catalyst, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) received 31 crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications, with 21 of them filed during the first eight days of October. Read more

The Venezuelan opposition leader has championed Bitcoin as a lifeline for individuals trying to protect their wealth or attempting to flee the country. María Corina Machado, a human rights activist and political opposition leader in Venezuela who has called Bitcoin a “lifeline” for Venezuelans, received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in the South American country. Machado praised Bitcoin (BTC) as a pro-freedom technology in a 2024 interview with Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Human Rights Foundation. She said: The only way to help Venezuela’s poorest is by ensuring property rights, low inflation, equal access to opportunity, and government,” she said.  Read more

President Trump said Friday that China may face even more severe tariffs, sending Bitcoin and other assets down alongside stock indices.

Circular AI investments among Nvidia, OpenAI and AMD have shown similarities to the dot-com bubble, which could spill over to harm the crypto market. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s correlation with Nvidia has surged to 0.75, its highest in a year. Analysts fear such a correlation may result in BTC price dropping by up to 80%. Read more