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Bitcoin fell below the $87,000 level shortly after Wall Street opened on Monday, as fresh selling pressure set off a wave of liquidations across bullish positions.
The move picked up speed around the opening bell.
Several traders pointed to activity on Binance and the trading firm Wintermute as key sources of new supply entering the market simultaneously.
Liquidations of long positions built quickly. One of the crypto trackers reported 100 million liquidations of long positions in five minutes.
In just over an hour, losses had already surpassed $200 million, based on data from CoinGlass.

Bitcoin (BTC) has been gripped by sharp volatility in the final stretch of the year, swinging between $92,000 and $82,000 as market sentiment turns increasingly cautious.
Over the past three months, Bitcoin has fallen by 24.1%, highlighting the intensity of the current drawdown.
At press time, BTC was trading at $88,009.31, down 1.1% over the past 24 hours.
With less than 12 days left before the New Year, prominent market watchers are beginning to temper expectations for Bitcoin’s performance in the year ahead.
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BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) is seeing persistent withdrawals from its iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:IBIT) as investors pulled more than $2.7 billion over five consecutive weeks.
IBIT is facing its longest run of withdrawals since it began trading in January 2024, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Bloomberg data shows more than $2.7 billion left the fund over the five weeks through Nov. 28, with another $113 million exiting on Thursday.
The steady pullback follows Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) deeper co

2,000 Bitcoin on the move: Rare Casascius coins awaken after 13 years

The physical Bitcoin collectibles were minted when Bitcoin was trading for just $3.88 and $11.69 each, marking a massive potential return.
Two long-dormant Casascius coins — each backed by 1,000 Bitcoin — have just been activated as of Friday, unlocking more than $179 million stashed away for more than 13 years.
Onchain data indicates that one of the Casascius coins was minted in October 2012, when Bitcoin was trading for $11.69.
The other was minted earlier in December 2011, when Bitcoin was valued at only $3.88, givi

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In a late August Barchart article on Bitcoin, I concluded with the following:
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are highly volatile **** ets. While the bullish trend remains firmly intact, the price history suggests that another price plunge is not out of the question.
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Bitcoin was trading just below $116,200 per token on August 22, and while the price

It was all smiles at Washington DC's Kennedy Centre as the leaders of the US, Mexico and Canada took the stage for the 2026 World Cup draw, even as trade tensions simmered in the background.
For Donald Trump, the brief interaction marked his first meeting with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, who leads the largest trading partner for the US.
While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has already met with Trump several times, trade talks have been halted.
Trump this week signalled a willingness to leave in place a long-standing free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico.
The agreement

Wall Street is preparing to welcome a major player to the New York Stock Exchange as Twenty One Capital moves toward its public debut.
This Bitcoin price prediction examines what the landmark listing could mean for BTC’s trajectory amid ongoing market volatility.
Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc., has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP).
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, with the merged entity’s Class A common stock anticipated to begin trading on December 9 under the ticker symbol XXI.

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Bitcoin (BTC) continues to walk a tightrope after weeks of volatile swings.
Since Oct. 10, BTC has fluctuated between $82,000 and $90,000 — a sharp drop from its early October peak of $126,000. As of Dec. 5, Bitcoin was trading around $91,009.90 at press time, down 1.5% over the past 24 hours, as per CoinGecko.
Despite the recent pullback, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse remains bullish on the long-term outlook for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market.
Speaking at Binance Blockchain Week during a panel on crypto’s future, Garlinghouse predicted Bitcoin could hit $180,000 by the end of 2026.

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Bitcoin is starting December on weaker footing as risk ****** ets wobble and the year-end rally narrative gives way to a market working through heavy volatility. BTC has fallen into the mid-$80,000s after trading above $125,000 in early October, leaving the token roughly 30% off the highs and giving back a large portion of its 2025 outperformance.
The tone has shifted from momentum to repair as traders reassess positioning, ETF flows, and macro pressure.
Against that backdrop, we ran Bitcoin

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MADRID, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Spain is investigating whether a recent swine fever outbreak in Barcelona could have been caused by a laboratory leak, the ‌Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
The country, the European Union's top pork producer, is ‌trying to reassure trading partners after 13 wild boars tested positive for the virus in hills outside the city. The disease is harmless to humans but can be deadly for pigs and wild boars.
Genome ⁠sequencing by a Madrid ‌lab showed the strain was “very similar” to one first detected in Georgia in 2007 and now wide

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers amid a ‌global supply shortage of the essential semiconductors.
Shares of the company were down 2.6% in afternoon ‌trading.
Micron's move to dissolve its consumer business comes against a backdrop of worldwide strain in memory supply chains, with tight availability of semiconductors ranging from flash chips used in smartphones to

Ethereum traders are positioning with more optimism than their Bitcoin counterparts, options data shows.
Despite a broadly cautious investor stance, the divergence suggests that traders see less immediate downside risk for the second-largest crypto by market cap than for Bitcoin.
That outlook aligns with recent spot price performance.
Ethereum is trading just above $3,100, down around 2% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. Its year-to-date performance of -3% is slightly better than Bitcoin's -6%, though both **** ets have declined by double-digits since October, with Ethere

Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc. has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP), with CEP shareholders voting in favor of the proposed merger and all related proposals.
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, pending completion of closing conditions outlined in regulatory filings with the SEC. Upon completion of the business combination and ***** ociated PIPE financing, the merged entity will operate under the Twenty One Capital name.
The company's Class A common stock is anticipated to begin trading on the New Y

Bitcoin held near $93,000 in Asian trading on Thursday, while regional stocks made a lacklustre start as soft US data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week.
Nic Puckrin, investment **** yst and co-founder of The Coin Bureau, said Bitcoin has staged a “remarkable recovery” over the past day as a “perfect storm of good news” swung momentum back toward the bulls.
He pointed to Vanguard lifting its long-standing ban on Bitcoin ETFs, Bank of America recommending a 1% to 4% crypto allocation that could channel as much as $700b into the **** et class, an

In recent days, American Bitcoin Corp. saw heavy selling as pre-merger private placement shares came off lock-up, triggering trading halts and erasing a large chunk of its market value amid a weak backdrop for crypto-linked equities.
Although most insiders remain barred from selling until 2026, the sharp reaction to early investors cashing out underlines how sensitive American Bitcoin’s stock has become to supply shifts and sentiment around Trump-associated digital ****** ets.
We’ll now examine how this pre-merger share unlock and resulting volatility shape American Bitcoin’s investment narr

Bitcoin held near $93,000 in Asian trading on Thursday, while regional stocks made a lacklustre start as soft US data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week.
Nic Puckrin, investment ******* yst and co-founder of The Coin Bureau, said Bitcoin has staged a “remarkable recovery” over the past day as a “perfect storm of good news” swung momentum back toward the bulls.
He pointed to Vanguard lifting its long-standing ban on Bitcoin ETFs, Bank of America recommending a 1% to 4% crypto allocation that could channel as much as $700b into the ******* et cla

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is down almost 6% in the past 24 hours after a sudden wave of long-position liquidations erased nearly $4,000 from price in a matter of minutes.
Jim Cramer said the sharp decline reflected speculative positioning rather than any change in Bitcoin's underlying case.
In a post on X, Cramer said the morning selloff aligned with what he outlined in his Sunday note, arguing that Bitcoin and speculative trading "collaborate to start the month horribly" and have "nothing to do

Two major economies are tightening control over digital currencies just as the US pushes to cement its leadership in the stablecoin sector. Israel is accelerating its digital shekel plans while China continues to expand the digital yuan.
These moves signal a broader global shift toward sovereign digital money that could challenge the reach and influence of US dollar–based stablecoins.
Stablecoins have become a central pillar of the digital ***** et market, moving well beyond their early role as a trading convenience.
The sector now processes more than $2 trillion in monthly volume and holds

Bitcoin and companies tied to cryptocurrencies extended a nearly two-month swoon Monday, tracking with a broader market sell-off in technology companies that many see as overvalued.
Bitcoin slid 6.5% after being down nearly 12% earlier in the day, settling in just above $85,000. The most-traded cryptocurrency is down about 33% since hitting a record $126,210.50 on Oct. 6, according to crypto trading platform Coinbase. Bitcoin had soared since April in line with the stock market and driven partly by a more crypto-friendly tone in Washington.
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Bitcoin's sell-off resumed on Monday, extending a sell-off that's dragged the crypto deeper into a bear market.
Bitcoin and tech stocks were moving lower in tandem as risk sentiment soured.
The crypto is being hurt by liquidity concerns and worries about selling among big corporate holders.
The last month of the year is kicking off with more selling in bitcoin.
December opened up with bitcoin falling deeper into its bear market, with the price of the token trading as low as $85,461 on Monday. That puts bitcoin around 32% down from its all-time high in early October, when the crypto hit a p

US stocks sank on Monday while bitcoin's (BTC-USD) slump deepened, as Wall Street's strong late-November rebound looked set to hit a speed **** p on the first trading day of December.
Tech led the retreat, with the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) down around 1% and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) dropping roughly 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slid around 0.6%, after the blue-chip benchmark led Wall Street indexes to a fifth day of gains on Friday.
All the "Magnificent Seven" megacap stocks except Amazon (AMZN) pulled back, led by falls of around 1% for Nvidia (NVDA), Meta (META), and Tesla (TSL

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The crypto market opened December with the kind of sharp reversal investors had hoped was behind them, as Bitcoin (BTC-USD) fell as much as 6% to below $86,000 in early Asia trading and pulled Ether and Solana into deeper losses. The move lands just weeks after roughly $19 billion in levered bets were wiped out in early October, a shock that hit days after Bitcoin touched its record high of $126,251. Even after shedding 16.7% in November, Bitcoin briefly reclaimed levels above $90,000 last week, but traders now say the rebound could be fading. Sean Mc

Crypto markets closed November with their steepest monthly decline since February, as exchange volumes plunged to $1.59 trillion and bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $3.48 billion in net outflows.
The sector-wide retreat accelerated Monday when Bitcoin crashed below $86,000, wiping out over $600 million in leveraged positions and extending losses that began weeks earlier when the world’s largest cryptocurrency tumbled from its $126,251 all-time high.
Source: TradingView
Trading activity across centralized exchanges fell 26.7% from October’s $2.17 trillion, marking the weakest performance since June

Bitcoin tumbled below $86,000 in Asian trading on Monday, even as regional stocks opened the final month of 2025 on a steadier footing, buoyed by growing optimism that the US is close to its next interest rate cut.
After hovering near $91,000 at the end of November, Bitcoin had been slipping lower in small steps, a sign of fatigue rather than capitulation.
That changed when a wave of selling punched through several intraday support levels and drove prices toward the $86,900 area, with a sharp spike in sell volume pointing to forced liquidations or large stop orders getting triggered.
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Bitcoin briefly plunged below $87,000, wiping out a week’s gains in one session.
The fast selloff triggered $400 million in liquidations within just 60 minutes and pushed the global crypto market capitalization down 4% to $3.04 trillion. Trading activity surged as both retail and institutional investors reacted swiftly to price pressure.
Liquidations surged across leveraged positions, reflecting the speed of the downturn. Market data noted $400 million liquidated in just one hour. This rapid wave of losses highlights the risks for traders during sharp price moves.
Trading volume spiked to o

(Bloomberg) -- Cryptocurrencies fell sharply on Monday, bringing fresh momentum to a wide-ranging selloff that appeared to have settled.
Bitcoin slid as much as 4.3% to below $88,000 in early Asia trading, while Ether dropped 6% to below $2,900, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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The crypto market is on shaky ground after a weeks-long selloff that began when some $19 billion in levered bets were wiped out in early October, just days after Bitcoin set an all-time high of $126,251. A let-up in the

Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded above $90,000 over the past week, as extreme fear sentiment and US capital flows showed signs of improvement.
On Nov. 21, the BTC price fell below $81,000. With the recent shift, the **** et is trading close to $91,000 at the time of writing.
According to data provided by Coinglass, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index (CBPI) turned positive for the first time since Oct. 30.
The indicator, which measures the Bitcoin price ratio between Coinbase and the global market, suggests that the digital gold is trading at a premium on the US-based exchange.
Moreover, Coinglass s

The final month of the year gets underway on Monday, and investors will be looking for a smoother month to round out the year after choppy November trading saw the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) snap a seven-month winning streak while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved back to within 1% of a record high.
On Friday, markets ended the week by notching a fifth straight session of gains to close out the up-and-down month in a holiday-shortened trading session. And despite snapping its monthly winning streak, the Nasdaq is also within 3% of a record. The Dow is less than 2% off its record close.
And while the f

US stocks rose during a holiday-shortened trading day on Friday as a volatile month drew to a close and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) snapped a seven-month win streak.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the market higher on Black Friday, gaining around 0.6%. The generalist S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose by 0.5%, marking the fifth straight day of gains for the major indexes.
Stocks rebounded sharply this week as traders ramped up bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its meeting in December, less than two weeks away. Renewed f