Topic
Bitcoin is the largest cryptocurrency by market value; this tracks its ongoing price swings, rallies, and leverage-driven volatility.
Bitcoin gained about 3% to $79,000 and took back its 50-week average at $77,430 after Trump said Iran wants a deal. Crude dipped but held above $100, and CME's FedWatch tool puts Wednesday's quarter-point hike at 92.7%.
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Bitcoin slipped from about $79,500 to $77,000 on August 22 and roughly $547 million of crypto positions were force-closed. At 50x, a 2 percent move is the entire margin.
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The August print matched expectations, the 30-year touched its highest since June 2004 before settling at 5.309%, and QCP Capital says the competing risk-free rate is the worst mix Bitcoin can face.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs booked $986.9m in the week to Friday and $3.8bn across three weeks, but $730.9m of that came on Thursday alone, and the three-week run finished decelerating rather than building.
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One conditional line from Christopher Waller moved September hike odds from 63.2% to a coin flip. The squeeze that followed force-closed $415 million of shorts against $92 million of longs -- forced buying, not investor demand.
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The bid that cleared $71,000 came from venues closing losing shorts rather than from anyone deciding bitcoin was cheap in the mid-$60,000s, which makes this a fact about positioning more than about price.
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A one-tenth-point inflation overshoot took roughly 3.7% off Bitcoin in hours. Four more triggers land before Friday's $6.4 billion options settlement.
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A $1.92 billion ETF inflow print and a Fear and Greed reading of 78 say institutional sentiment flipped. Neither says whether the money was spot or borrowed.
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More than $3 billion of short liquidations did the heavy lifting, with a $517 million ETF day alongside it. That fuel is spent, so the next leg has to be bought.
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