Live updates: Bitcoin continues in tight range near $83,000, recovering from overnight slide

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Live updates: Bitcoin continues in tight range near $83,000, recovering from overnight slide

The third-quarter U.S. earnings season is kicking off today, with results from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and UnitedHealthcare, among others. The key September CPI report comes tomorrow.

Metaplanet plans $328.5 million bond raise to refinance bitcoin-backed debt and fund buybacks

Metaplanet (335) plans to issue zero-coupon, unsecured yen-denominated convertible bonds due in 2031, generating approximately $328.5 million in net proceeds. Around $149.4 million will repay bitcoin-backed borrowings, while up to $179.1 million will fund share buybacks between October and December 2026.

The company held 44,000 BTC at September’s end and had $649.5 million in bitcoin-backed borrowings, equivalent to 17.7% of its bitcoin net asset value, exceeding its 10% guideline.

The financing will replace some interest-bearing, bitcoin-backed debt with unsecured funding carrying no regular interest payments. This should release bitcoin collateral and reduce the risk of forced sales if prices fall further. It improves the debt structure without immediately reducing total liabilities or overall leverage. Conversion into shares could dilute existing shareholders, while unconverted bonds would require repayment at maturity.

Trezor to slash reseller network in response to Ledger attack

“The recent supply-chain hack on [Ledger] confirmed what we have always known,” wrote Trezor COO Danny Sanders, minutes ago. “A hardware wallet is only as safe as the path it travels to reach its owner.”

“We have made the difficult decision to make our reseller network much smaller, small enough that we can vet and check every partner that remains.”

Sanders added that “there is not a single piece of evidence that Trezeor devices have been compromised.”

Those resellers notified will be removed from the authorized list as of January 1, 2027.

All is well with economy, according to Wells Fargo chief

“Our data shows that our consumer and business customers are doing well,” said Wells Fargo (WFC) CEO Charlie Scharf, as his company released its third-quarter earnings results.

“Consumers are spending more, loan delinquencies are low, and deposit and investment balances have grown,” he continued.

“Businesses continue to have strong balance sheets and losses remain low. While higher interest rates, higher oil prices and persistent inflation create risks to the economy, strong positive forces such as the investment in AI infrastructure, high employment levels and consistent wage growth continue to outweigh the risks.”

WFC is modestly lower in pre-market trading after EPS topped estimates, but revenue fell short.

Cipher Digital down 13% on capital raise

Formerly a bitcoin miner, but now in the data center business, Cipher Digital CIFR$11.03 is selling $850 million of 2032 convertible debt, with a 0% coupon.

Shares are lower by 13% in pre-market trading.

Strive made major bitcoin purchase last week

Led by Matt Cole, Strive ASST$28.19 added a whopping 3,311 bitcoin last week, bringing holdings to 32,773 coins.

The funds for the purchase — roughly $275 million — came from sales of the company’s preferred stock SATA as well as cash coming in from the exercise of warrants (for the common stock).

ASST has sold off nearly 10% in recent days, in part due to those warrant exercises. Shares are flat in pre-market trading on Tuesday.

Where's the money? Arthur Hayes questions where profitability of tokenization

“I transferred the stock that was sitting in DTCC, and now it's sitting on some blockchain, whatever it is, doesn't really matter,” said longtime crypto veteran Arthur Hayes.

“How much money can you actually make doing that.”

Better bookkeeping? Wonderful, said Hayes, “but where are you actually going to make money in tokenization … I think that has been the issue with this narrative for a long time.”

Not averse to participating in a bull run, though, Hayes concluded, “if the standard bearer of contrarian thinking for Wall Street Muppets says it's time to buy some tokens, then you buy the fucking tokens.”

Bitcoin’s bounce off a key average shows buyers are still there, FxPro says

A burst of stop-loss selling knocked bitcoin to $81,000 early Tuesday, dragging it back to its 50-day moving average before buyers lifted it to about $83,700.

Stop-loss orders are automatic sell instructions traders set to cap their losses, and a cluster of them firing at once can push the price down quickly. The 50-day moving average, bitcoin’s average closing price over the past 50 days, is a level traders watch for the medium-term trend. Buyers defended it on Tuesday, as they did on Thursday when bitcoin bottomed near $80,400.

The rebound shows “just how easily it can rise after long positions have been liquidated,” said Alex Kuptsikevich, chief market analyst at FxPro.

Kuptsikevich said bitcoin could move quickly to $85,000 and retest $87,000, the top of the range it traded in last week, if Tuesday’s drop proves to be a healthy correction. He added that the speed of the reversal may point to a broader return of appetite for risk, though he wants to see that confirmed in other markets.

Bitcoin rips from $81,000 to $84,000 while ZEC and HYPE lead altcoin losses

Bitcoin swung through a $3,000 range over the past 24 hours. It fell to about $81,000 in early Asian trading, then ripped back above $84,000 and traded near $83,500 early Tuesday.

Altcoins didn’t bounce back as hard. ZEC was the laggard, down nearly 8% to about $1,210, and HYPE fell nearly 6% to about $82. SOL and DOGE each dropped 4%, and XRP lost about 3% to $1.36. Ether and BNB slipped between 1% and 2%, according to CoinDesk data.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which tracks market sentiment, fell to 57. That’s still in “greed” territory, but it’s the lowest reading since Sept. 18.

The selloff in chipmakers ran for another day. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.5%, and an exchange-traded fund tracking chip stocks headed for a sixth straight daily loss as traders questioned whether the pace of AI spending can last amid safety concerns and signs of funding strain. JPMorgan dropped more than 2% in early trading after its results opened the U.S. earnings season. Europe’s Stoxx 600 rose 0.4%, helped by falling oil prices and bond yields.

U.S. inflation data on Thursday is the next big test for both markets.