Bitcoin Drops to $80,000 on Fed Dissent, Samsung and Alphabet Earnings as AI Tokens Slump
Key Highlights Bitcoin fell 1.4% to trade near $80,100 after dipping to $79,600, while ether lost 1.7% and the CoinDesk Memecoin Index retreated 3.4%. Crypto liquidations jumped 84% to $337.4 million amid broader global equity weakness spurred by Alphabet’s earnings miss and South Korea’s Kospi slump. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs provided a continuous counterweight, recording ...