
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.

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.
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.

The Federal Open Market Committee held its target range at 3.75% to 4.00% on a 10-2 vote. Bitcoin went above $81,000, then back under $80,000.

Willy Woo ran 10,000 simulated Bitcoin price paths on 26 October. The median path tops at $413,000 in December 2028 and $1.03 million in February 2033. Woo's own note on the chart says it is a simulation, not a prediction.

Deribit's monthly contracts settle on Friday morning. Five readings taken since Monday size the expiry differently, and none of them reconcile.