Bitcoin drops to $82,000 on US data, and inflation fear is blamed
August job openings eased modestly, while households' inflation views kept the path to lower yields uncertain.
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Bitcoin’s $84,000 wall gets harder to break as ETF inflows sink to $31 million
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Zano rolls back a month of transactions as team plans to use personal funds for recovery
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Altcoin spot volume nears 4x Bitcoin’s as ETF inflows shrink across five sessions
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Bitcoin’s $85,000 test comes as Wall Street gets two different inflation stories
August already felt the disruption; Thursday’s September factory survey and Friday’s payrolls test what follows.