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Bitcoin is about $81,455, and ETFs record a $635.6 million outflow

Friday, October 23, 2026 · 12:46 PMCardano Daily

Through 14:13 on Friday, Bitcoin spent the session near $81,455. CoinMarketCap had it at $81,454.66, down 0.38 percent. CoinGecko at $81,461, down 0.36 percent. The working price is $81,455. Yesterday it was $81,766. On Thursday it traded between $80,996 and $82,551. CryptoSlate writes that the $80,000 level is at risk because capital is leaving for bonds. At 12:54 CoinDesk reports Bitcoin steadying and altcoins rebounding. Their headline holds the price nearer $81,700. The working figure in this piece stays $81,455 at 14:13.

The chain and difficulty

At 14:13 CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko hold BTC near $81,455, down 0.4 percent. Farside for 22 October records an outflow of $635.6 million, the largest since 25 June according to Cointelegraph. October stands at minus $175 million.

In the same hour mempool.space puts recommended fees at 2, 1 and 1 satoshi per virtual byte. Hashrate is 1,061.12 exahash per second. The next difficulty adjustment is estimated at plus 5.51 percent, with 52.58 percent of the window elapsed, around 29 October at 20:23 Central European time. Yesterday the estimate was plus 4.77 percent.

The funds

Farside for Thursday, 22 October, the latest closed print, records Bitcoin minus $635.6 million: IBIT −254.1, FBTC −217.5, ARKB −109.4, GBTC −29.5, BITB −27.4. Ether is minus $110.6 million (ETHA −75.5), Solana minus $8.9 million (BSOL −5.7, GSOL −3.2). Farside does not provide an XRP row. The day before, 21 October, Bitcoin was plus $524.8 million, ether plus $14.9 million, Solana plus $0.6 million. Cointelegraph calls that Thursday outflow the largest since 25 June and puts October at minus $175 million. TFTC gives minus $635.5 million for 22 October. SoSoValue gives plus $528 million for 21 October, against Farside's plus $524.8 million. XRP tables: Farside returns 404, SoSoValue 403.

What this does to ADA

In the same hour ADA was about flat and Bitcoin was down 0.4 percent, so ADA/BTC rises to 265.4 satoshis. CoinDesk ties an altcoin rebound to the same session. If Bitcoin loses $80,000, ADA would likely retest the area around $0.21. That is an interpretation, not a finding from the chain.

Sources: CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, Cointelegraph, outflow, CryptoSlate, $80,000, CoinDesk, altcoins, Farside, TFTC, mempool fees, mempool retarget.

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