Bitcoin just erased over $9,000 in a weekend liquidity trap and the Monday recovery is missing one thing By the time London desks started lighting up this morning, Bitcoin had already moved sharply in off-hours trading. Over the weekend, while most of the world was off-grid or only half-paying attention between errands and late-night scrolling, […]
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Ethereum and XRP just fell off a cliff in weekend trading, Bitcoin barely flinched, and the timing might matter Crypto has a habit of saving its worst moves for the hours when people are least prepared to deal with them. That was the vibe on Saturday, when Ethereum and XRP dropped hard in a short […]
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Bitcoin price surrendered the psychological $90,000 stronghold during early Asian trading hours on Jan. 21, marking a decisive breakdown that has effectively erased the asset's gains for the start of 2026. According to CryptoSlate's data, the world’s largest digital asset plummeted to a session low of $87,282 over the last 24 hours. This downturn was […]
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Bitcoin’s price rallied above $95,000 during the last 24 hours, signalling a definitive shift in market structure rather than a simple volatility spike. According to CryptoSlate's data, the top crypto rose by more than 3% to reach a high of over $96,000, its highest price level since mid-November. BTC has retraced to $95,028 as of […]
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On a cold ‘Betwixmas' December morning, the mood around Bitcoin feels familiar and strange at the same time. Familiar, because the story still swings between euphoria and anxiety. Strange, because the people watching the chart now include a different crowd. Some are still the veterans who lived through 2017 and 2021, some are newer, the […]
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Every Boxing Day, I make the same cup of tea, check the same price chart, and ask the same question: What story is Bitcoin telling this year? Line up the December 26 close from the start of the exchange era to today, and a pattern appears. The holiday reveals the mood that carried us into […]
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On the day Bitcoin finally punched through $100,000, a lot of people did the same thing. They screenshotted it. They sent it to group chats, posted it with rocket emojis, and pulled up old tweets from 2021 to dust off the victory laps they had been saving for years. It felt like closure, like the […]
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US inflation came in softer than expected, and the Fed delivered its third consecutive rate cut. The Bank of Japan raised rates for the first time in three decades without triggering a meltdown. On paper, the macro tape into year-end looks friendlier than it has in months. As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is up […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) walks to close 2025 with more than $112 billion locked in US spot ETFs, exchange reserves at a record low of 2.751 million BTC, and perpetual futures open interest of nearly $30 billion. Every single one of those data points would have sounded constructive in 2022. In late 2025, they map to the […]
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Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 is looking less like a debate about narratives and more like a test of market plumbing. For the better part of 2025, the surface story was institutional momentum. The US moved toward a workable regulatory perimeter, capped by President Donald Trump signing the GENIUS Act to federalize payment stablecoins. At […]
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Bitcoin trades near $89,000 today after its 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 in mid-November, a threshold traders track for capitulation. A chart circulated by Global Macro Investor’s Julien Bittel, sourced to LSEG Datastream, overlays Bitcoin’s recent path with the average trajectory that followed the last five RSI breaks below 30 and traces a […]
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Bitcoin slipped below $85,000 overnight, triggering nearly $600 million in liquidated long positions across crypto markets within 24 hours as expectations mounted that the Bank of Japan will hike interest rates this week. As of press time, Bitcoin recovered slightly to around $86,000. The drop wiped out $218.7 million in Bitcoin long positions and $213 […]
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XRP is showing one of the clearest splits in crypto this quarter between what people say and what they do with their money. Social data tracking bullish and bearish commentary indicates that the mood around the asset has entered a new Fear zone, even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) logs its most active stretch of […]
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Bitcoin price erased recent gains, shedding nearly 5% to below $87,000 in early Asian trading hours on Dec. 1. This came as a surge in Japanese government bond yields triggered a broad risk-off sentiment, shattering a fragile, low-volume market structure. According to CryptoSlate data, BTC fell from a consolidation range near $91,000, wiping out approximately […]
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The crypto markets staged a convincing comeback on Nov. 27, snapping a prolonged period of stagnation as a critical shift in the United States’ liquidity forced capital back into risk assets. While the headline price action saw Bitcoin surge 5% to reclaim the psychologically vital $90,000 threshold and Ethereum clear $3,000 for the first time […]
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Are crypto IPOs the most accurate top signal, or just a tell investors keep retesting because it feels true during late-cycle heat? The tape offers a clean cluster to examine. Coinbase’s direct listing arrived on April 14, 2021, the precise day Bitcoin set a then record near $64,000. Stronghold Digital Mining priced its IPO on […]
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As the BTC price tumbles below $100,000, Glassnode would like to share a depressing stat. If you’ve been stacking sats anytime since late spring, it’s fair to say the honeymoon is officially on pause. With Bitcoin trading at $96,000, a whopping 99% of investors who bought in the past 155 days are in the red. […]
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Between October 28 and November 10, US spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed $343 million in net inflows across ten consecutive trading days. During that same stretch, SOL dropped from roughly $195 to touch the $145 zone. It currently sits around $159, as of press time. The divergence isn’t a bug, but the entire story. […]
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Bitcoin is back at $106,400, a pivot point that has been critical to this cycle’s rallies and pullbacks. As we outlined in “Today’s $106k retest decided Bitcoin’s fate,” acceptance above this band has tended to unlock the next level. At the same time, rejection has forced a rebuild below a fair-value axis that acts as […]
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Bitcoin’s sustained price above $100,000 was supposed to signal its arrival as a mature institutional asset. Instead, its sudden reversal below that threshold has unsettled traders and revived fears of another crypto winter. On Nov. 4, Bitcoin briefly dipped to its lowest level since May at $99,075, before recovering to approximately $102,437 as of press […]
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Bitcoin traded at $100,640.15 as of press time, down 5.6% in the past 24 hours, after briefly losing the $100,000 price threshold on Binance futures for the first time since June 23. The sell-off wiped billions from the broader crypto market as traders confronted a three-month high in the dollar, equity weakness, and a four-day […]
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Bitcoin has treated $106,400 as a pivot across the current cycle, acting as both resistance and support. Price has repeatedly clustered near the level, cleared it on retests, and expanded toward the next channel bands, while breaks below the level often required a repair phase before any advance. My charts below show price channels that […]
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Bitcoin fell over 4 percent to near $111,000 on Wednesday as U.S. equities set new highs ahead of the Federal Reserve decision, a divergence driven more by crypto’s positioning and flows than a broad macro risk-off. Nvidia crossed $5 trillion in market value, concentrating stock gains in a handful of AI leaders even as crypto […]
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Zcash (ZEC) was little more than a historical footnote for most of the past years. The digital asset was seen as a relic of crypto’s cypherpunk age, forgotten amid the rise of AI tokens, restaking narratives, and layer-2 rollups. Yet, it has become 2025’s most surprising comeback story almost overnight. CryptoSlate data shows Zcash surged […]
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Crypto markets started this new week with a surge powered by a rare alignment of favorable macroeconomic shifts. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin climbed to a fresh intraday high above $116,000 before stabilizing near $115,587 as of press time. Notably, this is its highest price level in weeks and shows that it is within sight […]
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The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded past the $112,000 resistance level over the weekend, trading at $113,724 at the time of writing, according to CryptoSlate data. Bitcoin’s price breached the $113,000 mark for the second time this week—on Oct. 21, BTC was trading at $113,678. The latest price movement has helped Bitcoin’s value recover nearly […]
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The Bitcoin options market has quietly become one of the most revealing arenas for gauging trader sentiment. And right now, it’s flashing mixed but telling signals. While Bitcoin has clawed its way back from the early-October washout that vaporized tens of billions in leveraged bets, the options data suggests investors are still hedging their excitement […]
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Bitcoin’s weekend nosedive had traders muttering about a “dead cat,” but the market clearly missed the memo. After sliding to $106,189 on Sunday, BTC refused to stay buried. Monday’s tape was cautious, Tuesday started ugly, and then, out of nowhere, buyers charged in and dragged the price to $113,650 by nightfall: a 7% comeback in […]
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Bitcoin and Ethereum staged a strong rebound this week as fresh capital returned to crypto markets following the US–China tariff shock. Bitcoin surged past $110,000 for the first time since early October, reaching roughly $111,000 as of press time, according to CryptoSlate data. The move marks a 4% daily gain and reverses some of the […]
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JPMorgan attributes the recent Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) sell-off to crypto-native leverage rather than institutional exits, noting that spot ETFs and CME futures absorbed minimal forced selling while perpetual futures markets faced sharp deleveraging across both assets. Bitcoin fell 13.1% from $122,316 on Oct. 3 to $106,329 by Oct. 17, while perpetual open interest […]
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