Bitcoin reclaimed $82,500 on Friday as bond yields and crude oil retreated together.
The move pulled BTC back from Thursday's $80,544 low, a two-and-a-half week low set after reports that the Pentagon had instructed CENTCOM to prepare for resumed combat operations in Iran. WTI crude eased toward $90.70 after spiking toward $93.20, removing one of the clearest macro headwinds behind the selloff.
Coinbase Institutional quant strategist Colin Basco told Dow Jones the 10-year Treasury is still the gatekeeper: a move toward 5.5% would likely extend the consolidation. On a retrace toward $72,000, he was blunt. That would be a buying opportunity.
Cryptex Finance founder Joe Sticco pointed at what sits underneath. Spot bitcoin ETFs took in roughly $3 billion over eight straight sessions into late September. If those flows hold through the volatility, he said, the floor is sturdier than the price suggests.
This is the cleanest the tape has been in a week. The leveraged longs that needed flushing are gone, over $1 billion of them wiped in one session, and what remains is a straight contest between stubborn yields and a bid that has not broken. The ETF ledger shows accumulation, the price chart shows consolidation, and one of them is mispriced. If the 10-year stops climbing, the floor Sticco sees gets tested upward fast. If it marches to 5.5%, Basco's $72,000 quote becomes the next conversation.
What gives first: the bond market or the institutional bid?
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The move pulled BTC back from Thursday's $80,544 low, a two-and-a-half week low set after reports that the Pentagon had instructed CENTCOM to prepare for resumed combat operations in Iran. WTI crude eased toward $90.70 after spiking toward $93.20, removing one of the clearest macro headwinds behind the selloff.
Coinbase Institutional quant strategist Colin Basco told Dow Jones the 10-year Treasury is still the gatekeeper: a move toward 5.5% would likely extend the consolidation. On a retrace toward $72,000, he was blunt. That would be a buying opportunity.
Cryptex Finance founder Joe Sticco pointed at what sits underneath. Spot bitcoin ETFs took in roughly $3 billion over eight straight sessions into late September. If those flows hold through the volatility, he said, the floor is sturdier than the price suggests.
This is the cleanest the tape has been in a week. The leveraged longs that needed flushing are gone, over $1 billion of them wiped in one session, and what remains is a straight contest between stubborn yields and a bid that has not broken. The ETF ledger shows accumulation, the price chart shows consolidation, and one of them is mispriced. If the 10-year stops climbing, the floor Sticco sees gets tested upward fast. If it marches to 5.5%, Basco's $72,000 quote becomes the next conversation.
What gives first: the bond market or the institutional bid?
$BTC $ETH