Entity

Bitcoin

The largest cryptocurrency by market value; widely watched as a barometer of risk appetite in digital assets.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Standard Chartered expands Bitcoin and Ether trading to professional investors in UAE

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

  • Bitcoin price levels

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Deutsche Bank prepares German crypto custody launch, eyes Asia: Report

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Google Touts 'Magic' Quantum Breakthrough as Bitcoin Q-Day Threat Looms

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Babylon Proposes Native BTC Collateral and New Spokes on Aave V4

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Bitcoin

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 199 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 74 on 26 Sept 2026 (+169%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 17 Oct 2026 (1 change recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Bitcoin dip to $45,000 by December 31, 2026?” moved from 8% to 5% Yes since 2 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,540 documents · 201 publishers · 14% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.139: about 86% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Bitcoin

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

CryptoEthereumTreasuryAIEtfsSolanaFederal ReserveCoinbase
  • Crypto · 3,249 shared documents
  • Ethereum · 1,896 shared documents
  • Treasury · 1,142 shared documents
  • AI · 1,047 shared documents
  • Etfs · 945 shared documents
  • Solana · 764 shared documents
  • Federal Reserve · 654 shared documents
  • Bitcoin Etf · 622 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Digital Assets · 616 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Coinbase · 599 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 199 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 74 on 26 Sept 2026 (+169%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +232% from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 48 and 234 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Bitcoin, day by day.

Market price, cited

5% Yes

priced 17 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 8% → 5% Yes (-3pts, from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026)

on “Will Bitcoin dip to $45,000 by December 31, 2026?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Bitcoin

“Will Bitcoin dip to $45,000 by December 31, 2026?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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Events involving Bitcoin

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Standard Chartered expands Bitcoin and Ether trading to professional investors in UAE

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Standard Chartered expands Bitcoin and Ether trading to professional investors in UAE · corroborated · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 8 separate publishers
    • Sberbank Crypto Trading: Russia’s Biggest Bank Approved to Exchange Bitcoin and Ethereum · corroborated · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers

  • Bitcoin price levels

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Deutsche Bank prepares German crypto custody launch, eyes Asia: Report

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Google Touts 'Magic' Quantum Breakthrough as Bitcoin Q-Day Threat Looms

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Babylon Proposes Native BTC Collateral and New Spokes on Aave V4

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Coinbase Urges Bitcoin Quantum Security Upgrade Before Threats Emerge

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • UK High Court Rules Chinese Law Governs Victims’ Claims to 61,000 Seized Bitcoin

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Binance Pulls the Plug on Its Bitcoin Mining Pool, Sets November 10 Shutdown

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Bitcoin and XRP Sentiment Turn Fearful as Ethereum Draws Bullish Buzz

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Bitcoin price prediction: Why BTC USD can drop before a Fed rate hike and rally after

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank Begins Bitcoin Backed Corporate Loans as Authorities Block Access to Unregistered Platforms Including KuCoin, MEXC

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Bitcoin

Entity.

Evidence
4,540 documents · 201 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 5 Apr 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
14% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
25 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (3)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Bitcoin, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Other markets materially about Bitcoin

Markets whose question is about Bitcoin or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Bitcoin and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 4 Oct 2026

1 change recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.