Bitcoin Today: Price, Why It’s Moving and the Latest News

Bitcoin was little changed over the past 24 hours: BTC traded at $79,493 (-1.0%) as of 14:07 UTC on Monday, October 26, 2026. Ether was -1.5% at $2,297 and the total crypto market -3.4%, so BTC did better than the market. 16 of the 41 largest coins were higher.

Why is Bitcoin flat today? What the numbers show

• Versus the market. BTC outperformed the market by 2.4 percentage points (-1.0% versus -3.4% for all of crypto), so part of the move is market-wide and part is specific to Bitcoin.
• Versus Ether. BTC beat Ether by 0.5 percentage points over 24 hours, and ranked 33rd of 41 large coins by 24-hour change. Bitcoin dominance is 59.4%.
• Trading activity. 24-hour trading volume was $23.2 billion, equal to 1.5% of BTC's $1.60 trillion market value.
• 24-hour range. BTC traded between $79,370 (03:55 UTC) and $80,743 (17:55 UTC, Oct 25), a 1.7% swing. The low came after the high. The current price sits near the bottom of that range.
• The bigger picture. Over 7 days BTC is -3.7% and over 30 days -5.4%. The 30-day range is $79,525 to $86,636, and today's price is at the bottom of it. BTC is 37.0% below its all-time high of $126,080.
• Sentiment. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index reads 50 (Neutral), down from 54 a day earlier.
• Network. The Bitcoin blockchain is at block 973,245. The next halving, at block 1,050,000, is 76,755 blocks away — roughly 1 year at the current average of 567 seconds per block — when the block reward falls from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC.

Bitcoin, Ether and the market at a glance

The Bitcoin stories behind today's move

What CryptoNewsInsights reported in the past 48 hours:

• Tether signs 15 mining firms to build MDK integrations — Tether says 15 Bitcoin mining firms, including Bitmain, Bitdeer and F2Pool, will build integrations for its open-source MDK, with version 1.0 due by end-2026.
• Chamath Palihapitiya Says Bitcoin Could Be Hacked to Zero — Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin could be hacked by AI or quantum computing and fall to zero, citing privacy risks.

The live BTC price, chart and converter are on our Bitcoin price page. For the rest of the market, see our Markets page and the Bitcoin news desk.

How this report is made

CryptoNewsInsights calculates every figure in this report from CoinGecko market data recorded at 14:07 UTC on Monday, October 26, 2026, with block height and halving estimate from mempool.space. Stablecoins and wrapped or staked versions of other coins are left out of the rankings. Changes are over the previous 24 hours unless stated. The report describes what the price did and which measurable factors moved with it; it does not claim a single cause and does not predict prices. It is not financial advice.