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$BTC has touched $80K three times in seven days - 80,337 on October 8, 80,963 on the 13th and 80,275 today - and each bounce has topped out lower, at 84.2K, 84.0K and 81.8K. A hot 3.7% CPI print, an Al-stock unwind and nearly $1B in liquidations did the damage, so the question is simple: $65K or $94K first?
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The 65K camp says the flush hasn't happened. As CryptoFV details, open interest rose 5.7% while price fell 3.5% and funding stayed positive - traders added leverage into the dip, with $900M of the liquidations coming from longs and $760M leaving the ETFs since October 7. The same read comes from Bobshalom, who notes ETF holders sit underwater against an $81.5K cost basis and wants a daily close over $83K before trusting any bounce. To CryptoFV, a sweep toward the 200-day near $72K would not surprise.
The pushback comes from Signal Over Noise, whose math favours 94K first: it is 16% away versus 20% for 65K, and the nearer wall hits first about 55% of the time. Even so, the same post expects 80K to crack before the race resolves. BabaYaga Calls sits in the middle, waiting for confirmation. Three tests of a level is normal; a fourth decides if this is a floor or a trapdoor. Where's your line ?