The day in brief
- Bitcoin traded at $81,195 on our figures for 29 October 2026, up 0.71% over 24 hours but down 3.41% over seven days and 3.02% over thirty.
- The price sits 35.6% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is down 29.13% over the year.
- Bitcoin's dominance across the wider crypto market stood at 59.61%.
- Sentiment has cooled a little: the Fear and Greed index reads 51, which is neutral, against 63 a week earlier, so the mood has eased from greed toward the middle of the scale.
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Bitcoin traded at $81,195 on our figures for 29 October 2026, up 0.71% over 24 hours but down 3.41% over seven days and 3.02% over thirty. The price sits 35.6% below its all-time high of $126,080 and is down 29.13% over the year. Bitcoin's dominance across the wider crypto market stood at 59.61%. Sentiment has cooled a little: the Fear and Greed index reads 51, which is neutral, against 63 a week earlier, so the mood has eased from greed toward the middle of the scale.
US spot ETFs took in a net $152.2 million on the latest trading day, 27 October, and $94 million across the five days to that point. Those inflows have been modest, and we can't say from the data whether they signal a turn. The ETFs hold 1,487,162 BTC between them, with the largest, the iShares Bitcoin Trust from BlackRock, on 813,040 BTC. Public companies hold 1,228,389 BTC, and Strategy (MicroStrategy) is the biggest of them with 848,517 BTC. Miners hold 99,172 BTC and governments 518,526 BTC, while we track the network at block 973,614, with 76,386 blocks to go before the estimated halving on 12 March 2028. Hashrate sits at 1,077 EH/s, and the next difficulty adjustment is pencilled in at 5.94% higher.
Headlines were dominated by the Federal Reserve's decision to hold rates steady, which Bitcoin Magazine reports came in a split vote, while Decrypt reports a December rate hike is in play. Decrypt also reports that Datavault AI says it can't access its BTC, and its stock tanked. CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin-backed mortgages are coming to Canada.
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 Treasury Datavault AI Says It Can’t Access Its BTC, Stock Tanks
- Bitcoin-backed mortgages are coming to Canada, but borrowers are still unaware of the cost
- Bitcoin Price Trades Above $81,500 as Fed Keeps Rates Steady in Split Vote
- Fed Stands Pat, Bitcoin Holds Steady—But a December Rate Hike Is in Play
- Centralized Exchange and DeFi Losses Dominate 2026 Crypto Hacks Despite Hardware Wallet Failures
- Google Debuting a Bank-Grade Crypto Custody Tool Built on Split Keys: Report
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 28 Oct 2026, the price is +0.1% and the Fear and Greed score has moved nowhere.
