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Bitcoin Support Holds at $82.5K, Altcoins Rally on Thin Liquidity Ahead of CPI

Stock Market Today·Capital Copilot·17 October 2026·3 min

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Bitcoin trades near eighty-two thousand seven hundred dollars holding critical support as markets await Wednesday's U.S. inflation data. Altcoins outperform majors by nearly two-to-one on deteriorating liquidity, while E T F outflows hit six hundred eighty-one million dollars-largest since June. X R P Ledger patched an eleven-year integer overflow bug capable of minting eighteen trillion tokens, and Standard Chartered launched R L U S D custody in Dubai. South Korea's first Bitcoin-backed business loans go live, and the F S B warns stablecoin frameworks remain untested under stress as the three-hundred-six-billion-dollar market grows without crisis protocols.