Bitcoin has reclaimed $81,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump ruled out attacks on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, while oil prices have retreated following his statement. President Donald Trump said in an Oct. 8 Truth Social post that Washington was holding productive discussions with Tehran and would not attack Iran before Americans vote
Bitcoin software company Breez said demand for its developer tools has surged since AI coding agents went mainstream, with partnership inquiries rising roughly 14-fold as developers, and increasingly the agents they deploy, look to add bitcoin payments to their apps. In a company blog post, it tied the jump directly to Anthropic’s Claude Code, which
Bitcoin price has fallen toward $80,800, bringing its 50-day moving average into focus as a bearish daily MACD crossover and an oversold 4-hour RSI put the $80,000 level under pressure. TradingView’s Binance $BTC/USDT daily chart showed Bitcoin trading at $80,806 on Oct. 8, down 3.02% from the session’s opening price of $83,321. The session’s low
Citi’s $113,000 Bitcoin target would require a roughly 36% rise from the Oct. 7 reference price, keeping it below its previous record. The harder question is whether buying can sustain that recovery. Onchain analytics firm Glassnode’s fresh analysis shows new money entering the market alongside unusually thin trading. The bank raised its twelve-month Bitcoin forecast
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) believes a $1 million Bitcoin is not a distant dream. Speaking on stage at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong, he said the milestone will arrive well before the 25-year horizon most people use, and he told a room full of Bitcoin loyalists that other blockchains make Bitcoin bigger, not
Some 6.26 million $BTC, or 31.2% of Bitcoin’s issued supply, sit behind public keys already visible onchain, according to an Oct. 8 update by Glassnode co-founder Rafael Schultze-Kraft. The exposed balance has grown by 222,000 $BTC since Glassnode’s May report, while total supply increased by 64,000 $BTC, he said. The change reflects more existing coins
In brief Bitcoin fell as low as $81,749.83 today, undercutting the $82,776.30 floor flagged yesterday, and trades near $82,486. Bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their worst day since June, while 87.5% of the $429 million liquidated over 24 hours were long positions. Uptober is turning out red so far, but the charts
VerifiedX (verifiedx.io), a programmable layer for Bitcoin and other crypto assets, and EDX Markets (“EDX”), a Chicago-based digital asset technology firm that combines an institution-only trading venue with a central clearinghouse, announced a strategic partnership to bring Verified Bitcoin (vBTC), a tokenized form of Bitcoin, to EDX for institutional spot trading. vBTC, VerifiedX’s flagship product,
The Bitcoin funding rate on Binance has plunged to approximately -0.00215, its lowest level since last January. With $BTC retreating toward $83,000, futures traders are leaning increasingly bearish. But that shift could cut both ways. Negative funding means short-position holders pay fees to long-position holders. In practical terms, it suggests demand for short exposure has
A modest early decline in bitcoin BTC$80,925.70 on Thursday has accelerated, the price falling to about a one-month low just above $80,000 Bitcoin is down 4% over the past 24 hours, and is now lower by more than 8% since nearly hitting $87,000 just four days ago. That’s masking far uglier action in the rest