Prediction market Kalshi shows traders assigning only a 19% to 22% chance that bitcoin will surpass $100,000 before January 2027, with over $10 million wagered on timing contracts. Bitcoin is down about 27% year-to-date in 2026 and trades near $64,600, roughly 50% below its October 2025 peak. The market also prices a 57% chance bitcoin falls below $50,000 before the end of 2026, reflecting bearish sentiment driven by ETF flow fatigue, macroeconomic uncertainty, and lack of strong catalysts. Analysts remain divided, but Kalshi's real-money bets suggest cautious expectations for bitcoin's near-term recovery.
Bitcoin retreated after approaching the $85,000 mark, a resistance level identified by analysts. Traders are cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's Oct. 27-28 meeting, where the consensus expects interest rates to remain unchanged. This pause in rat...
James Wynn opened a 40x leveraged short position of 0.4947 Bitcoin on the Hyperliquid platform on October 23, with the position valued at approximately $40,500. The liquidation price for this trade was set at $82,671.48. This move comes 49 days after...
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone said that market expectations of three Federal Reserve rate hikes are creating a headwind for Bitcoin, gold, and copper. He warned that Bitcoin could drop to $10,000, linking this potential decline to a ...
Bitcoin traded slightly up at $81,684 while the overall crypto market capitalization dropped 2.62% to $2.76 trillion. Bitcoin makes up 59.4% of the market, with Ether at 10.6%. Among major cryptocurrencies, BNB saw the largest gain, rising 1.87%, whi...
On October 23, Ether was the only major cryptocurrency among five tracked to have a negative perpetual-futures funding rate, meaning short sellers pay long holders. Its rate was -0.0002% every eight hours, or -0.3% annualized. In contrast, XRP had th...
