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Issue #113 · Sunday, October 4, 2026 | | Market mood Greed · 65/100 ▼ from 67 yesterday | | Worth noting Bitcoin crossed above $85,000 since yesterday. | | Bitcoin and Ethereum hold steady gains as regulatory developments and security incidents shape institutional and government crypto adoption worldwide. |
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☀ The Numbers | Bitcoin (BTC) | $85,299 +0.8%
+0.4% this week | | Ethereum (ETH) | $2,703 +0.8%
-0.5% this week | | Total crypto market | $2.89T -2.8% | | BTC dominance 59.2% · BTC 32% below its all-time high |
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☀ The Movers Top gainers (24h) | PUMP Pump.fun | +13.6% | | AERO Aerodrome Finance | +7.6% | | AKE Akedo | +6.9% | | NEAR NEAR Protocol | +4.8% |
| Top losers (24h) | BTW Bitway | -18.5% | | WLD Worldcoin | -2.1% | | APT Aptos | -1.4% | | NIGHT Midnight | -1.3% |
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From the top 100 coins by market cap. |
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☀ The Read Where the chart sits — description, not prediction Bitcoin is trading above both its 50-day ($79.0K) and 200-day ($71.5K) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. Over the past 30 days it has traded between $75.6K and $86.6K; today's price sits in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) is 67 — momentum reads as firm. See all nine coins on the daily markets page → |
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☀ The Brief | | El Salvador receives $138M from IMF after Bitcoin waivers The IMF approved funds for El Salvador contingent on reducing state Bitcoin involvement and strengthening crypto regulation, marking a shift in the country's relationship with its 2021 Bitcoin legal-tender adoption. (Cointelegraph) |
| | Chainalysis traces $387M Bitget hack to North Korea Security firm Chainalysis used AI to follow stolen funds across four blockchains, finding the September breach pushed North Korea's 2024 crypto theft total past $1 billion, highlighting state-sponsored crypto targeting. (Decrypt) |
| | Russia pays wages in digital rubles for first time Russia's Finance Ministry and central bank conducted the first wage payment using the digital ruble, advancing the country's rollout of its central bank digital currency in government operations. (Cointelegraph) |
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