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The post Bitcoin ETF News: Spot Bitcoin Outflows Push BTC Below $81K appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin price today has fallen below $81,000, touching a low near $80,250. Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs...
Bitcoin may appeal as protection against currency debasement, but borrowing costs, lost interest income, futures premiums and liquidation risk can reduce returns. Moneyiar data showed Bitcoin at $80,986.59, down 0.73% over 24 hours and 2.40% over seven days on Oct. 17, 2026.
An Anthropic AI model traced five mysterious NSA-linked elliptic-curve seeds to an ordinary random-number generator, weakening long-running backdoor suspicions. Bitcoin was not affected because it uses a different curve, although quantum computing remains a separate future security concern.
Google says its Willow quantum chip cut errors in preparing “magic states” by about 40 times, addressing a key hardware challenge behind any future attempt to compromise exposed bitcoin wallets. The result is significant but does not make a bitcoin attack 40 times cheaper.
Chainalysis says a task-scam operator lost 60 bitcoin, worth about $4.8 million, when three Ledger-associated addresses were emptied in last week’s theft. Ledger says compromised devices exposed users’ seed phrases, while investigators have reported much larger total losses.
The Bitcoin for Financial Services Summit will return to Denver on October 20–22, 2026, with more than 30 sessions covering custody, lending, accounting, regulation and advisory work for clients who hold Bitcoin.
Sazmining is offering Block’s Proto immersion hashboards to individual and institutional buyers. Customers will own the machines while Sazmining manages deployment, monitoring and maintenance, with mining rewards paid directly to owners’ wallets.
Bitcoin fell after hotter-than-expected U.S. consumer and producer inflation data reinforced concerns about restrictive Federal Reserve policy. CoinShares says the near-term environment is difficult, but not fundamentally bearish, and urges investors to assess broader trends rather than one weekly report.
MSCI has finalized eligibility rules that could remove Bitcoin treasury companies, including Strategy and Metaplanet, from its major indexes. The change takes effect November 30 and may force index-tracking funds to sell affected shares.
Deutsche Bank is reportedly weeks away from launching cryptocurrency custody for European corporate and institutional clients. The service is expected to support bitcoin and other major digital assets, with an Asia expansion planned for next year and future stablecoin transfer services.
MSCI will implement rules that could eventually exclude bitcoin-focused Strategy from its global equity indexes. The company will not be removed immediately, but future eligibility tests may affect its benchmark status as its digital-asset holdings remain central to its business strategy.
Bitcoin bounced above $82,000 after briefly falling below $80,000, while Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Zcash advanced. Technical indicators remain mixed, with key levels around $81,603 and $84,246 shaping the potential bullish, sideways and bearish scenarios.
Tokenized stocks are seeing most trading activity outside Wall Street hours, while Bitcoin miners face costly AI expansion and a proposed US accounting rule could help qualifying stablecoins count as cash equivalents.
Bitcoin stayed above $80,000 as South Korean stocks rebounded and traders cut bets on an October Federal Reserve rate hike after Chair Kevin Warsh offered no signal of another increase. US bond yields remained elevated, keeping broader market pressure in focus.
Bitcoin’s sideways trading in the $80,000s has not stopped crypto investor Lark Davis from arguing that a new bull market may be underway. He cited whale accumulation, technical indicators and ETF-driven market changes, while identifying $57,000 as the likely cycle bottom.
A University of Oregon mathematics professor says Bitcoin’s security depends heavily on miner incentives. A possible shift toward artificial-intelligence workloads could change those incentives, while centralization, censorship and miner collusion remain longer-term concerns.
Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg says Bitcoin has a strong digital-gold investment case, but believes it must trade less like a technology-linked risk asset. She also discussed ETFs, stablecoins, quantum concerns, inflation, tokenization and AI.
Sazmining is offering Proto immersion bitcoin mining hashboards to individual and institutional buyers from $1,397, with 0% financing over 18 months. Customers own the hardware, while Sazmining operates it at a U.S. facility and sends mined bitcoin directly to their wallets.
