Bitcoin steadies near $82,000: After a jumpy weekend, Bitcoin tagged $83,000 early Monday and slipped back, and it now trades around $82,060, roughly flat over the past day. Strategy added 267 BTC, bringing its total to 848,517, and Bitcoin's share of the whole crypto market hit about 60.8%, a 14-month high, as altcoins lagged. The 40x Hyperliquid long flagged Saturday, about 1,205 BTC (roughly $98M) bought near $81,914, has a liquidation line near $79,828, now about 3% below the market.
Over the weekend, a sharp drop in Bitcoin, Ether and AI-stock futures briefly flushed about $52M of mostly long bets in ten minutes before prices bounced, and a Sunday-afternoon slide took Ether down to about $2,340. Ether has since recovered to about $2,410.
QNT is the strongest on the board, up about 2% on the day to near $198, while NEAR is the weakest, down about 3.5% to near $4.85. HBAR sits near $0.084, TAO near $268 and SOL near $105. Late Saturday, Whale Alert flagged two large Bitcoin withdrawals from Kraken, 1,281 BTC (about $105M) and then 1,149 BTC (about $94M), and US spot crypto ETFs lost about $611M from Oct 12 to 16, led by Ether funds (−$320.1M) and Bitcoin funds (−$228.4M).