
Bitcoin Holds the $74,000s Hours Before the October CPI Print
Two CoinDesk filings give two prices on the same measure. Two consensus forecasts for October inflation are circulating, and they are not the same number.
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Two CoinDesk filings give two prices on the same measure. Two consensus forecasts for October inflation are circulating, and they are not the same number.

US spot bitcoin funds gave up $1.28 billion in the week to 6 November, and ether funds $365.3 million. Only Wednesday drew money in.

A 12% fall in the semiconductor index took bitcoin to its lowest price in weeks. Four outlets quote four different prices for the same 24 hours.

US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $74.6 million on 4 November, their first positive day since 29 October. Fidelity's inflow and BlackRock's outflow ran opposite.

US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $115.6 million on 3 November, the smallest of three straight outflow days. Two providers disagree on one fund's 30 October figure.

The Liquid Federation says every LBTC is 1:1 backed again, two months after about 4,000 BTC left the network. The deposit totals do not reconcile.

US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $398.6 million on Monday, $405.3 million of it from BlackRock's IBIT. Three liquidation readings for the same day disagree.
October paid bitcoin miners $1.215 billion, the most since November 2025, while hashprice fell 17.54% over the same 31 days.
Only $656 separated Sunday's high and low, against a 2.28% median for October. Two accounts put the month's loss at 7.67% and 7.32%.

Friday's withdrawal narrowly beat 22 October's and turned a positive week negative. Two flow trackers disagree on when the last bigger day was.

Deribit's monthly contracts settled at 08:00 UTC with max pain at $78,000. Four readings of the book's size do not reconcile, and bitcoin fell past the level anyway.

Difficulty is due to rise about 6% at block 973,728. mempool.space put the change at 5.976% with 76 blocks to go, which would leave it short of the 2025 peak.