Bitcoin quickly falls from record again, as derivatives market overheats

22 Oct 2021

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📉 BTC | $62,435 (-$3,233, -4.9%)
📉 ETH | $4,079 (-$102, -2.4%)
📉 XRP | $1.09 (-$0.06, -5.0%)
📉 LTC | $198 (-$10, -4.8%)

📉 Total Crypto Market Cap: $2.55T (-3.5%)

🏪 Walmart has begun hosting a network of 200 Bitcoin ATMs in their stores across the country, run by crypto wallet and payment company Coinme. This development was relatively quiescent, coming after a fake press release last month falsely purported that the retailing giant was to accept Litecoin for payments in their stores.

🤑 At current prices, the Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index is showing Extreme Greed (84/100), as excitement over the Bitcoin futures ETF is driving average BTC funding rates to its highest level in over six months on several exchanges. Spikes in funding rates tend to herald sharp sell-offs in BTC.

🏹 Robinhood’s (-1.3%) waitlist for its crypto wallet offering was revealed to have over one million people currently, highlighting the scale of demand for crypto services. Approx. 41% of the companies revenue is from crypto trading, with more than half of the company’s customers trading cryptocurrencies.


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