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U.S. spot Bitcoin<a href="https://yellow.com/asset/btc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(BTC)</a> exchange-traded funds lost about $910 million over two weeks, with hotter inflation data and a brief price dip <a href="https://yellow.com/news/bitcoin-anticipated-correction-94000-next-target" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">below $80,000</a> weighing on demand.
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 <h2 id="key-points">Key Points:</h2>
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 <li>Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $228.6 million in net outflows this week after a $681.1 million exit the week before.</li>
 <li>A 3.7% annual inflation reading coincided with the worst session of the week and a slide below $80,000.</li>
 <li>The funds are down roughly $615 million for October but still hold about $57 billion in net inflows since launch.</li>
 </ul>
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<h2 id="bitcoin-etf-outflows">Bitcoin ETF Outflows</h2>
The funds <a href="https://decrypt.co/381246/bitcoin-etfs-shed-nearly-1-billion-two-weeks-uptober-red" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">lost</a> a net $228.6 million in the five trading days ending Oct. 16, according to SoSoValue data, after a $681.1 million drain the week before. On Friday, the week's second-worst session, BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust <a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-news/bitcoin-and-ether-etfs-lose-152m-as-blackrock-drives-friday-selloff/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">accounted</a> for $71.8 million of an $82.4 million exit, while Fidelity's fund gave up the remaining $10.6 million.
Redemptions beat inflows on three of the five days. Monday's $65.4 million outflow gave way to a $175.6 million inflow on Tuesday, but the rebound did not last. Wednesday brought about $261 million in redemptions, the same day data showed September consumer prices up 3.7% from a year earlier, above the 3.6% forecast, and Thursday added back only $5.1 million.
Bitcoin briefly <a href="https://crypto.news/ethereum-etf-outflows-bitcoin-etfs-october-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">fell</a> below $80,000 on Thursday, touching a low near $79,800, as nearly $950 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours, about 90% of them bullish bets, according to CoinGlass. Spot Ethereum<a href="https://yellow.com/asset/eth" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(ETH)</a> funds fared even worse, shedding roughly $320 million over the same week, mostly from BlackRock's Ethereum trust, as their losing streak stretched into a third week.
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<h2 id="btc-cost-basis">BTC Cost Basis</h2>
The slide pushed Bitcoin below the average ETF holder's estimated cost basis near $82,300, Nexo analyst Iliya Kalchev said. Analytics firm Glassnode<a href="https://en.coin-turk.com/bitcoin-trades-above-80000-as-etf-outflows-and-realized-loss-spikes-test-support/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">places</a> that level closer to $81,500. Bitcoin traded around $81,200 on Sunday, below both of those estimates.
On average, fund buyers are now sitting on paper losses.
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its benchmark range to 3.75%-4% in September, and a hot inflation print raises the odds of another hike. Higher rates push Treasury yields toward a nearly risk-free 5%, a tough rival for Bitcoin, while lifting the dollar and making credit costlier for leveraged traders. Still, weekly trading in the funds <a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-etfs-82-million-outflows-october-16/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">topped</a> $7.5 billion, a sign investors stayed active even as they cut exposure, and total net assets sit near $104.3 billion.
<h2 id="etf-flow-swings">ETF Flow Swings</h2>
The funds opened October with roughly $293 million in inflows but are now down about $615 million for the month, a sharp reversal from the $3.5 billion they <a href="https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-etf-flows" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">drew</a> in August and $2.6 billion in September.
Even so, the slide, which picked up with a $484.9 million exit on Oct. 7, the worst day since June, remains small next to roughly $57 billion in net inflows since the January 2024 launch.
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Bitcoin ETFs Watch $910M Walk Away As Hotter Inflation Data Hits Markets

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