{"id":5149,"date":"2025-10-22T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/crypto-slump-worsens-as-bitcoin-slips-amid-a-broad-market-sell-off\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:16:10","slug":"crypto-slump-worsens-as-bitcoin-slips-amid-a-broad-market-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/crypto-slump-worsens-as-bitcoin-slips-amid-a-broad-market-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto slump worsens as Bitcoin slips amid a broad market sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto market\u2019s October slump has worsened, with a 3 percent drop.<br \/>\nBitcoin slipped below 110,000 dollars and Ethereum fell below $3,900.<br \/>\nThe market has lost roughly $370 billion in value this month alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The cryptocurrency market\u2019s brutal October slump has worsened, with a fresh 3 percent drop sending Bitcoin below the key $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">110,000<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0level and dragging most major altcoins deep into the red. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The broad-based drawdown is the latest chapter in one of the harshest months of the year for the digital asset space, as a potent combination of thinning institutional support, technical disruptions, and simmering macroeconomic tensions creates a powerful \u201crisk-off\u201d wave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The scale of the recent carnage is immense. The market has now erased roughly $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">370 billion<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0in value this month alone, with as much as $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">19 billion<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0in leveraged positions being liquidated. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Futures open interest has also been decimated, with\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">65 billion dollars<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0wiped out, resetting market activity to the levels of early 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Institutional support thins as ETF outflows accelerate<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A key driver of the recent weakness has been a dramatic and worrying reversal in institutional sentiment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">After months of powerful inflows, spot Bitcoin ETFs have become a source of intense selling pressure, posting a staggering $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">1.23 billion<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\"> in weekly net outflows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">This included a massive $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">366 million<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0outflow on Friday alone, a move that removed a critical layer of buying support from an already fragile market.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A perfect storm: an AWS outage and a SpaceX scare<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">This fundamental weakness was compounded by a perfect storm of technical and psychological blows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted access to a number of leading crypto venues, including the US giant Coinbase and several DeFi front-ends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The disruption widened spreads and accelerated forced liquidations, with over $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">240 million<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0in long positions being wiped out in just 24 hours, a move that briefly pushed Bitcoin toward 107,500 dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Market nerves were frayed further after on-chain trackers flagged a large transfer of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">2,395 BTC ($268 million)<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0from a wallet associated with SpaceX. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">While analysts suggested the flows were likely internal custody reshuffles, the timing sparked a wave of \u201cIs Musk selling?\u201d headlines, adding another layer of fear to an already anxious market.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">What to watch next as the market hangs in the balance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Technically, the market is now at a critical inflection point. Bitcoin is facing a thick layer of resistance between $<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">112,000 and $115,500<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">, with key support levels now sitting at $108,000 and $105,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A decisive daily close back above the 50-day moving average (around $113,000) is needed to stabilize the market. Failure to do so keeps the psychological <\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">100,000 dollar<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0zone firmly in play and raises the risk of a much deeper bearish phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The near-term catalysts remain firmly in the macroeconomic arena, with the upcoming US CPI print and any fresh hints from the Federal Reserve on interest rates likely to be the next major market-moving events. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">For now, a battered and bruised crypto market is left to lick its wounds and wait for the storm to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/crypto-slump-worsens-as-bitcoin-slips-amid-a-broad-market-sell-off\/\">Crypto slump worsens as Bitcoin slips amid a broad market sell-off<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/\">CoinJournal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto market\u2019s October slump has worsened, with a 3 percent drop. Bitcoin slipped below 110,000 dollars and Ethereum fell below $3,900. The market has lost roughly $370 billion in value this month alone. The cryptocurrency market\u2019s brutal October slump has worsened, with a fresh 3 percent drop sending Bitcoin below the key $110,000\u00a0level and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}