The day in brief
- Bitcoin closed the day at $77,221 according to DeFiLlama, down 2.02% over 24 hours, 5.43% lower across the week and 8.16% down on the month.
- It's now 38.91% below its all-time high of $126,080 and 28.7% weaker than a year ago.
- Bitcoin's share of the wider crypto market stands at 59.61%.
- Sentiment has soured sharply, with the Fear and Greed index at 30, firmly in the Fear zone, having sat at 50 a week ago, so the mood has slipped while the price has only drifted lower.
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Bitcoin closed the day at $77,221 according to DeFiLlama, down 2.02% over 24 hours, 5.43% lower across the week and 8.16% down on the month. It's now 38.91% below its all-time high of $126,080 and 28.7% weaker than a year ago. Bitcoin's share of the wider crypto market stands at 59.61%. Sentiment has soured sharply, with the Fear and Greed index at 30, firmly in the Fear zone, having sat at 50 a week ago, so the mood has slipped while the price has only drifted lower.
US spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $34.2 million on the latest trading day, 29 October, which sits within a five-day net inflow of $407.7 million. That's a modest but steady pull of money into the products even as the price has fallen. On our figures, US spot ETFs now hold about 1,489,596 BTC, the largest single fund being the iShares Bitcoin Trust (Blackrock) with roughly 814,874 BTC. Public companies hold around 1,228,389 BTC, led by Strategy (MicroStrategy) at 848,517 BTC, while governments account for about 518,526 BTC and miners for roughly 99,172 BTC.
On the network side, the chain stands at block 973,895 with 76,105 blocks to go before the next halving, which we estimate for 28 April 2028. Hashrate is running at 1,054 EH/s, and the next difficulty adjustment is pencilled in at minus 3.51%. Among the day's headlines, Cointelegraph reports that bitcoin risks its worst October in 12 years as a tech sell-off spreads to gold, while The Block reports that Strategy's preferred-stock fix sets up renewed bitcoin buying, according to analysts. Decrypt reports that Binance's hack did not crash bitcoin as it did in 2018.
Written by AI (Claude) from the live data on this page. Facts as of . Not financial advice.
Headlines
In the news at the time
- Worried About Crypto Hacks? Buy Bitcoin Proxies in Stock Market Instead, Say Wall Street Firms
- Coinbase (COIN) Misses Revenue Estimates as Users Fall, Armstrong Sets Up New Share Sales
- Binance Hack: Why Bitcoin Didn't Crash Like It Did in 2018
- Bitcoin risks worst October in 12 years as tech sell-off spreads to gold
- SEC Charges Two Companies in $130 Million Crypto Trading Scheme
- Strategy’s preferred-stock fix sets up renewed bitcoin buying, analysts say
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 30 Oct 2026, the price is +0.4% and the Fear and Greed score has moved nowhere.
