• Bitcoin (BTC) closed the week of Oct 24-30 at $77,331, down 5.8%.

• Ethereum (ETH) fell 8.5% to $2,212 over the same week.

• XRP dropped 8.1% to $1.22 in the Oct 24-30 window.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell 5.8% over the week of Oct 24 to Oct 30, and the Bitcoin price closed the stretch at $77,331 on Friday, according to aggregate market data. The decline arrived without any confirmed shock to the network itself: no protocol failure, no policy action aimed at the coin, no interruption to the mining schedule that anchors issuance. The pressure came from positioning instead, and the last trading day of the week showed it most plainly. On that session, a single-day $643.2 million Bitcoin ETF outflow, led by BlackRock's IBIT, drained demand right as the tape pressed toward its weekly low. Outflow reports of this kind are among the few demand signals that print daily and in public, unlike most over-the-counter activity, which leaves no same-day footprint. Scale gives the 5.8% figure its weight. Bitcoin is the asset that popularized proof of work, the consensus design that secures its ledger by paying miners with energy rather than stake, and it still carries the deepest liquidity in crypto plus a market value near $1.55 trillion. Both trace back to a nine-page whitepaper published 18 years ago, the document behind the growth from nine pages to a $1.55 trillion asset. A weekly move of that size on an asset of that weight pulls the whole market's reference point lower, which is why every major tracked in our Bitcoin coverage closed the week in the red. The close also landed within reach of the chart's next defended floor: the zone identified in the $76,600 support test, a level about $700 below Friday's close that the first sessions of November will now have to defend.

Ethereum, XRP and Solana Fell Harder

Ethereum lost 8.5% over the same window, closing at $2,212. XRP dropped 8.1% to $1.22, and Solana fell 9.8% to $95.16, the deepest weekly loss among the four majors. All three underperformed the leader, and none of the majors tracked closed the week in positive territory. The gap between Bitcoin's 5.8% and Solana's 9.8% spans four percentage points, and that spread is the cleanest reading of where capital cut risk first: money rotated toward the asset with the deepest order books and the largest market value. The pattern fits the case long argued under the banner of Bitcoin maximalism, the view that the original chain's fixed supply and liquidity make altcoin exposure a diluted version of the same trade. The week's risk ledger carried a second entry. Binance disclosed an unauthorized outflow during the period, and the notice kept exchange security in focus; the size, the method and the affected accounts were not detailed in the disclosures available here. Binance is the sector's largest trading venue, so an unauthorized outflow on its books moves sentiment faster than the same disclosure would at a smaller operator. Precedent frames the market's judgment: after its record hack, the exchange restored 90% of stolen Bitcoin, a recovery figure that any new incident will now be measured against. Demand-side research added its own item. Asset manager Bitwise issued a fresh Bitcoin price prediction that ranked among the week's most-read pieces; the specific targets inside the forecast were not part of the material reviewed here, so its near-term effect on positioning cannot yet be weighed. Elsewhere on the agenda, Ripple disclosed an annual product revenue run-rate and Google moved a new security tool into limited release. Neither bears directly on Bitcoin, but both circulated through the same risk appetite that set the week's prices.

The 4-Point Spread Between Majors

The week's data says more about positioning than about any new information reaching the market. Bitcoin's relative resilience rests on the buyer base it has accumulated: treasuries and fund structures that treat the coin as a strategic Bitcoin reserve holding adjust slowly, so a risk-off week bends them far less than it bends leveraged altcoin books. For long-term holders whose plan is simply to HODL through weekly swings, a 5.8% drawdown sits inside the range this market produces in an ordinary month. The near-term marker is mechanical. Our Bitcoin technical analysis page tracks the $76,600 zone as the next defended level, about $700 below the Friday close, and no confirmed break of it had printed as of that close. Stabilization in fund flows is the question the first full week of November must answer.