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Bitcoin Hits Weekly High as Crypto Market Rebounds
Bitcoin traders and hodlers are breathing this week after a pretty spooky start to the month with the historically best gains. Bitcoin traded near $84,500 on Wednesday, up 2.5% over 24 hours, as the crypto market bounced back from a mid-October slide that pushed it below $80,000. The total crypto market capitalization, the combined value of every coin, rose 2.2% to $2.9 trillion. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Ethereum climbed 2.5% to $2,504, Solana gained 2.2%...
Oct 18, 2026
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Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red
Bitcoin ETF investors spent another week heading for the exits. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $82.4 million on Friday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker, capping a week in which outflows outweighed inflows on three of five trading days. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The funds lost a net $228.6 million for the week, according to SoSoValue, following a $681.1 million drain the week before. Over the two weeks, about $910 million has left the funds. It was a choppy s...
Oct 16, 2026
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Bitcoin Bounces, But Where Does It Go Next? Here’s What the Charts Say
Bitcoin is trading at $82,295, up 1.28% in 24 hours, after a Thursday slide below $80,000, its first dip under that level in more than a month. Ethereum gained 4.17% to $2,473.17, Solana rose 3.02%, and XRP added 2.03%. Zcash is the strongest of the top 15 largest coins, jumping 10.29% to $1,222.02, lifting its market cap to $20.67 billion, and roughly erasing the almost 10% it lost on Thursday. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. In general, the market is bouncing t...
Oct 15, 2026
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Bitcoin Whipsaws as Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday for the first time in over a month, extending Wednesday’s inflation-driven slide and wiping out nearly $1 billion in leveraged crypto bets. It's currently trading just about $82,000 after several hours of increased volatility. Ethereum and XRP dropped close to 5%, Zcash sank almost 10%, and only five coins in the top 100 managed gains above 1%. Pick any coin in the top 100 and it's likely in the red today. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make you...
Oct 15, 2026
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Ethereum, Altcoins See 'Outsized Drawdowns' Due to Macro Pressures
Altcoins have taken a hit over the past 24 hours, with major tokens seeing "outsized drawdowns" compared to Bitcoin. Experts say that this has largely been prompted by macro pressures pushing prices down. With the market cap of all cryptocurrencies dropping by 2.5% to $2.8 trillion, Ethereum dropped by 5.5% to a $289 billion market cap over the past 24 hours, XRP fell by 5.1% to $82.4 billion, and Solana slipped by 3.8% to $60.6 billion. Meanwhile, industry leader Bitcoin has slipped by 3.1% on...
Oct 15, 2026
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Zcash Tanks Double Digits After 'Meteoric Rise' Sees Leverage Build Up
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen 11% over the past 24 hours to a market capitalization of $18.5 billion, per Decrypt data, making it one of the biggest losers of the day. One expert says this drop in valuation comes after its price has soared in recent months, which has led to a build up in leverage and amplified losses. Others say that growing concerns that AI can break cryptography faster than quantum computers are causing the privacy token to take bigger losses. Luke Nolan, se...