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Price action, liquidity, leverage and holder positioning in the market for bitcoin.
A bitcoin wallet that has held coins since March 2020 sent 4,582 BTC, worth $377.6 million, to five addresses, and none has moved them. CryptoQuant's Darkfost reported negative Coinbase premiums with bitcoin near $83,000, so the move invites a selling read that no on-chain sale yet confirms.
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Wallets tied to the US government moved 12,267 seized Bitfinex bitcoin, worth about $1 billion, to new unlabeled addresses. No exchange deposit was recorded, CoinDesk reported. Whether Washington is selling turns on the smaller sums it sent to Coinbase Prime.
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Bitcoin fell to about $81,000 on Thursday as Brent crude rose above $105 on reports that the US may strike Iran again. Whether it holds the $82,500 support traders are watching now depends largely on Treasury yields and oil prices.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Myriad traders give Bitcoin 48% odds of touching $90,000 in October, a 7.4% climb that is half the month's median gain since 2013. Rates explain that discount better than fund flows do, since September's spot-ETF buyers have so far barely sold.
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Bitcoin fell to $82,568 on Monday, about 4% under the $86,000 average cost of US spot-ETF holders, two days before its September and third-quarter closes. Corporate treasuries paid $80,500 on average, so Wednesday's close sets whether each group ends the quarter in profit or underwater.
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