Historical replay · BTC/USD
Bitcoin's Slide From $81,971 to $76,500 (October 2026)
Bitcoin fell 6.7% in ten hours between October 29 and 30, 2026, from $81,971 to $76,500, as big-tech results disappointed and Binance paused withdrawals after a security incident it put at $6.3 billion. Replay a night when crypto's largest exchange became the story.
Bitcoin spent most of Wednesday and Thursday in a narrow band. From midday on October 28 it traded between $80,397 and $81,789 through the Federal Reserve's decision to hold rates, slipped 1.34% in the 01:00 UTC hour on Thursday, October 29, as Asian markets sold AI stocks after Alphabet's report, and found buyers at $79,710. The US morning brought a rebound: the 14:00 UTC hour rose 1.09% on $131.6 million, and at 16:00 UTC the price reached $81,971, the high of the replay.
The first break came at the US close. The 20:00 UTC hour, when Amazon, Intel and Coinbase reported after the bell, fell 2.47% to $78,851.99, with a low of $78,297, on $328.3 million and 542,103 trades, the busiest hour of the replay. Intel fell about 23% after hours on its forecast and Amazon about 6% despite 39% growth at AWS, and the selling spread to everything priced on risk appetite. The 21:00 hour bounced to $79,811 but closed at $79,033.
The second leg came with news from the exchange itself. Late on Thursday Binance suspended deposits and withdrawals after a security incident that it later estimated affected about $6.3 billion of assets, including 17,985 bitcoin, according to Coinglass data cited by Investing.com. The 23:00 UTC hour fell 1.29% to $77,991.89, the 00:00 UTC hour on Friday another 0.95% to $77,252 on $291.7 million, and the low of the replay, $76,500.11, came in the 02:00 UTC hour, 6.7% below Thursday's high and the lowest price in about six weeks. Coinglass recorded about $350 million of long liquidations in four hours.
Then the selling stopped. The 02:00 hour closed up 0.78% at $77,436 and the next two hours added another 1.1%, as Binance said about $3 billion had been frozen, that customer holdings were unaffected and that it would cover losses from its SAFU fund; Circle and Tether froze more than $2.3 billion of stablecoins linked to the incident. Bitcoin ended the replay at $78,632. Over the UTC day of October 29 it fell 4.12% on $1.91 billion of spot volume on Binance, almost twice the day before, and the recovery left it below the $79,221 low of October 24 that had held for a week.