{"id":240622,"date":"2026-10-17T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=240622"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:30:01","slug":"these-alts-bleed-the-most-as-bitcoin-btc-settles-below-82k-weekend-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=240622","title":{"rendered":"These Alts Bleed the Most as Bitcoin (BTC) Settles Below $82K: Weekend Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin continued to be volatile at the end of the business week, dipping below $80,000 for the first time in a month, before rebounding by roughly $2,000.<\/p>\n

Most altcoins have turned red once again, with XRP sliding back to $1.30, and ZEC plunging by over 5% after it was rejected at $1,200.<\/p>\n

BTC Calms at $81.5K<\/h2>\n

After the price calamity on October 9, which drove BTC to just over $80,000, the asset managed to regain some traction and returned to $83,000 during the weekend. It climbed to $84,000 on Monday morning, but it was quickly rejected there and plummeted to $81,000. Major price fluctuations continued, with a bounce off that drove it to the same upper boundary it hit on Tuesday and held until Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Then came the CPI data for September, which showed inflation was slightly higher than expected. Bitcoin reacted<\/a> with an immediate leg down to under $82,000. The PPI data released a day later showed that inflation is indeed not going away. Alongside other macro reasons<\/a>, such as the major crash of the KOSPI and the Nikkei, Bitcoin dived again. This time, it dipped<\/a> below $80,000 to mark a monthly low.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin rebounded again rather quickly and jumped to almost $83,000 on Friday. Another rejection followed, though, and the cryptocurrency now struggles at $81,500, while the macro pressure builds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Its market cap is down to $1.630 trillion on CMC, while its dominance over the alts has dipped below 60%.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BTCUSD October 17. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n

Alts See Heavy Selling<\/h2>\n

Ethereum is down by 1% to $2,430, BNB has slipped by a similar percentage to $723, while XRP struggles at $1.31 after a 2.4% decline. The landscape around SOL, HYPE, DOGE, LINK, XMR, and ADA is similar.<\/p>\n

More painful declines come from ZEC (-5.2%), RAIN (-7.4%), and TAO (-5.5%). ZRO, STRK, and PYTH lead the adverse trend with double-digit price drops. In contrast, BTW, TIA, and LIT have defied the overall trend and have marked some gains.<\/p>\n

The cumulative market cap of all crypto assets has declined by 1% over the past 24 hours, and it\u2019s down to $2.740 trillion.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Cryptocurrency Market Overview October 17. Source: QuantifyCrypto<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin continued to be volatile at the end of the business week, dipping below $80,000 for the first time in a month, before rebounding by roughly $2,000. Most altcoins have turned red once again, with XRP sliding back to $1.30, and ZEC plunging by over 5% after it was rejected at $1,200. BTC Calms at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}