The day in brief
- Bitcoin was trading at $80,017 on our figures at 06:30 UTC, down 0.61% over 24 hours, 3.09% lower over seven days and 4.54% down over thirty.
- The price sits 36.5% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is 28.07% lower than a year ago, while bitcoin's share of the wider crypto market stood at 59.61%.
- Sentiment has cooled a little, with the Fear and Greed index at 50, which reads as neutral, down from 59 a week earlier.
- US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of $117.9 million on the latest trading day we have, 22 October, which is a sharp reversal from the wider picture.
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Bitcoin was trading at $80,017 on our figures at 06:30 UTC, down 0.61% over 24 hours, 3.09% lower over seven days and 4.54% down over thirty. The price sits 36.5% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is 28.07% lower than a year ago, while bitcoin's share of the wider crypto market stood at 59.61%. Sentiment has cooled a little, with the Fear and Greed index at 50, which reads as neutral, down from 59 a week earlier.
US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of $117.9 million on the latest trading day we have, 22 October, which is a sharp reversal from the wider picture. Across the five trading days to that date, net inflows still totalled $308.4 million, so the funds have been taking in money overall even as the most recent session went the other way. CoinDesk reports that bitcoin slipped under $80,000 as traders de-risked ahead of a Fed meeting, while Decrypt reports that ETFs snapped a two-week losing streak despite a late-week slide. The Block reports that crypto longs lost $404 million in four hours when bitcoin briefly dipped below $80,000.
ETFs hold about 1.48 million BTC, with publicly listed companies holding around 1.22 million, miners about 99,200 and governments about 518,500. Strategy (MicroStrategy) is the largest corporate holder at 848,517 BTC, and iShares Bitcoin Trust (Blackrock) is the largest ETF at 809,780 BTC. On the network, the chain is at block 973,200, with 76,800 blocks to go before the estimated halving on 12 March 2028, and hashrate sits at 1,087 EH/s. The next difficulty adjustment is due to rise by 6.11%. CoinDesk also reports on a wallet bug that let rogue servers steal funds when users tried to speed up payments.
Written by AI (Claude) from the live data on this page. Facts as of . Not financial advice.
Headlines
In the news at the time
- Bitcoin wallet bug let rogue servers steal funds when users tried to speed up payments
- Bitcoin slips under $80,000 as traders de-risk ahead of Fed meeting
- Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
- Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
- Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
- Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
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 25 Oct 2026, the price is -0.5% and the Fear and Greed score has moved down 4 points.
