Bitcoin Holds $60K as $10.6B Options Expiry Nears
Spot ETFs shed $469M in a single session while 80% of quarterly open interest sits out of the money, leaving the market pinned below the gamma flip at $68K–$70K.
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Spot ETFs shed $469M in a single session while 80% of quarterly open interest sits out of the money, leaving the market pinned below the gamma flip at $68K–$70K.
A 162,000 BTC notional expiry lands Friday at 08:00 UTC, and the $72K max-pain level with a 0.81 put/call ratio is the magnet dealers will defend into settlement.
The print beats every prior bear-market bottom, yet long-term holders have continued to accumulate to a fresh all-time high of 14.8M coins, roughly 75% of supply.
Senator Lummis named a specific month for a floor vote on digital-asset market structure, the most concrete timeline a US lawmaker has given since the bill was introduced and a marker institutional…
Roughly $10B in BTC options notional expires on Deribit Friday, with most of the pain concentrated on the bullish side as spot continues to bleed.
The call lands on a 4-year cycle model with MSTR mNAV as the anchor. If BTC has already made a 20-month low, the predicted Oct-Dec 2026 floor sits well below current price action.
HYPE's 72.6% surge does the heavy lifting; TRX adds a thin 4.1%, and every other large-cap name is underwater for the quarter.
A reported 90%+ insider-held supply on a $6B-claimed valuation is the rug-pull red flag retail keeps walking into: when almost every token is one wallet away from the market, the chart is the trap.
The popular theory that spot gravitates to the strike where options buyers lose the most is failing in real time, with BTC stuck near $61,700 against a $72,000 max pain target on Friday's record…
The macro stack lined up against risk assets: persistent spot BTC ETF outflows, a Fed holding its hawkish line, and a stronger dollar pushed Bitcoin briefly under $60K and the Fear & Greed Index to…
The wallet 0x0965 last moved in 2018, bought under $200, and just exited at $1,625. A $39M realized profit, but still well short of the $130M mark it once sat on.
The bounce came not from crypto buyers but from Micron's blockbuster earnings, proof that the same AI memory trade that hammered risk assets on Monday is now the only thing steadying the market…
No exploit, no hack, no announcement: the move happened on roughly $21M in volume, and the tokens that did move were the ones ZachXBT flagged months ago as insider-propped and venue-thin.
The round $60K mark is no longer the level traders care about. With Thursday's core PCE forecast to print the hottest reading since late 2023, $59K is the support bulls now have to defend.
Losing $1.0850 turns it from support into resistance, and a tape that prints lower highs on fading volume does not give buyers a clean shot at $1.10.
The bounce was a stock story, not a crypto one: BTC is still down 5.4% on the week, the dollar is at a seven-month high, and the 200-week moving average is now in play as a longer-term cycle line.
The only other time BTC traded below its 200-week moving average was the FTX collapse. Now Strategy's MSTR sits below $100, a Cardano wallet exploit is draining users, and the Senate's Clarity Act is…
The largest 30-day redemption streak in spot BTC ETF history landed during a price slide, with Fidelity and BlackRock funds leading the exit and institutions framing it as sentiment, not a structural…
The prediction treats SpaceX's pullback to $156 as a base rather than a breakdown, but the model's own bear case concedes the stock already prices in enormous expectations.
A 35% annual drawdown puts Bitcoin on track for one of its worst calendar-year performances since 2018, with the move reflecting broad deleveraging rather than any single catalyst.