The day in brief
- Bitcoin closed the day at $81,717 according to CoinGecko, down 0.84% over 24 hours and 1.01% over the week, though still up 7.22% on the month.
- The price sits 35.19% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is down 24.3% over the year, so the recent steadiness sits against a much weaker backdrop.
- Bitcoin dominance stood at 59.39%, and the Fear and Greed Index read 63, labelled Greed, up from 59 a week earlier.
- We'd note that the sentiment gauge moved in the opposite direction to the price over the same week.
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Bitcoin closed the day at $81,717 according to CoinGecko, down 0.84% over 24 hours and 1.01% over the week, though still up 7.22% on the month. The price sits 35.19% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is down 24.3% over the year, so the recent steadiness sits against a much weaker backdrop. Bitcoin dominance stood at 59.39%, and the Fear and Greed Index read 63, labelled Greed, up from 59 a week earlier. We'd note that the sentiment gauge moved in the opposite direction to the price over the same week.
US spot ETF flows gave a mixed picture. The latest trading day, 15 October, recorded a net inflow of $16.3 million, but across the five trading days to that date the funds shed a net $324.5 million. Spot ETFs now hold 1,481,620.6 BTC, the largest single fund being the iShares Bitcoin Trust from BlackRock with 803,870.6 BTC. Public companies hold 1,220,716.9 BTC, and Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, is the largest of them with 848,250 BTC. Miners hold 99,171.8 BTC and governments hold 518,525.6 BTC, according to our figures.
On the network, block height reached 971,776 with 78,224 blocks left until the estimated halving on 28 March 2028. Hashrate stands at 1,043 EH/s, and the next difficulty adjustment is expected to rise by 1.64%. Among the day's headlines, Bitcoin Magazine reports that hot inflation data put bitcoin under pressure, though CoinShares argues that difficult isn't the same as bearish. The Block reports that TD Cowen raised its price target on Strive by 27% after its bitcoin buying spree, while Decrypt reports that Strategy faces index removal under finalised MSCI rules.
Written by AI (Claude) from the live data on this page. Facts as of . Not financial advice.
Headlines
In the news at the time
- Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves
- Strive’s bitcoin buying spree earns 27% price target hike from TD Cowen
- BFFS26 Denver: Joseph Kelly on Bitcoin Custody and Credit; Alan Lane on Banking Lessons
- Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards
- Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares
- Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules
How this wrap was put together
Claude (claude-haiku-5-5) wrote it at from the figures in the panel beside it, which our data service had collected by . Compared with the wrap for 16 Oct 2026, the price is +0.1% and the Fear and Greed score has moved nowhere.
