
Bitcoin Clears Its $85,000 Sell Wall as Payrolls Miss at 29,000
The $85,000 asks came off the book on Friday and bitcoin traded as high as $87,000. US September payrolls came in at 29,000 against forecasts near 90,000.
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The $85,000 asks came off the book on Friday and bitcoin traded as high as $87,000. US September payrolls came in at 29,000 against forecasts near 90,000.

CoinMarketCap greeted the new month by telling followers that September spending returns 100x in October. Bitcoin traded near $84,800 on Thursday after a green September. The seasonal record behind the slogan is strong, uneven and one year out of date.

Kalshi filed to close its Volume Incentive Program from 13 October. It follows reports that the CFTC examined about $5 billion of near-identical ether perp trades.

CryptoQuant's trend gauge reads 90 out of 100. Its own demand series shows about 170,000 BTC of buying gone in 30 days, and futures growth has nearly stopped.

Robinhood is bringing eight perpetual futures contracts to eligible US customers, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on the rest.

Bitget's chief executive said the attacker used a flaw in a third-party security product to obtain admin credentials, then tested the risk system with 0.184 ETH.

Three outlets read Monday's tape at three different hours and got $84,466, $83,244 and $82,742. One of them contradicts itself inside a single report.

Jeff Yan says the next network upgrade lowers the perpetual funding ceiling eightfold and doubles both HIP-4 deployment quotas. No date was given for it.

Withdrawals reopen in four stages from Monday, starting with bitcoin. The revised total is a recount, not fresh theft, and equals about 84% of the protection fund.

Deribit settled one of its largest expiries of the year at 08:00 UTC with bitcoin just above $84,000. Five outlets read the notional differently.

The exchange says its $464 million protection fund covers the loss and that private keys were not taken. Withdrawals are still paused, with no timeline given.

The 10-year Treasury yield ran past 5.1% on Wednesday and bitcoin gave up $87,000. Outlets do not agree on how much of the long side was liquidated.