{"id":47980,"date":"2026-10-14T07:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47980"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:11:41","slug":"bitcoin-dominance-on-the-rise-as-altcoins-retreat-ahead-of-cpi-market-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47980","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Dominance on the Rise as Altcoins Retreat Ahead of CPI: Market Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>Although bitcoin&#8217;s price has remained relatively sluggish on a 24-hour scale, without any significant moves in either direction, its dominance over the alts has risen to 60% on CMC.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this is that most alts are still in the red, especially the mid-cap ones.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"btc-dominance-reaches-60\">BTC Dominance Reaches 60%<\/h2>\n<p>BTC was rejected at $87,000 on a couple of occasions at the start of the previous business week, and the second was particularly painful as it began a more profound leg down. It culminated on Thursday evening when the asset slumped to $80,400 to mark a multi-week low.<\/p>\n<p>After losing nearly $7,000 in about 72 hours, the cryptocurrency finally rebounded and tapped $83,000 during the weekend. It remained there for the next 36 hours and even challenged $84,400 on Monday morning. Another rejection followed, though, and the bears seemed in complete control on Tuesday morning when they <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoins-price-volatility-explodes-as-liquidations-surge-past-800-million\/\">drove<\/a> bitcoin to just under $81,000 once again.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, there were two positive outcomes: first, BTC <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/zec-and-near-plummet-hard-btc-recovers-from-rollercoaster-ride-market-watch\/\">rebounded<\/a> just as quickly to over $83,000; second, it marked a higher low, which is typically considered a bullish signal. Since then, it has traded sideways between $83,000 and $84,000 and currently sits inches above the lower boundary. More volatility is expected later today when the CPI numbers for September will be <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-traders-brace-for-cpi-and-4-other-key-events-this-week\/\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its dominance over the altcoins is on the rise. The metric tapped 60% on CMC, as most altcoins have struggled over the past few days. In the meantime, bitcoin&#8217;s market cap hasn&#8217;t moved much and stands at $1.670 trillion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1451094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451094\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BTCUSD-October-14.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1451094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BTCUSD-October-14.png\" alt=\"BTCUSD October 14. Source: TradingView\" width=\"1835\" height=\"917\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1451094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD October 14. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"alts-struggle-btw\">Alts Struggle, BTW?!<\/h2>\n<p>Most larger-cap alts continue to be in the red today, with ETH sliding back down to $2,500, XRP slipping further away from the $1.40 level, and SOL dropping to $107. RAIN has plummeted by almost 10%, while QNT is down by 7.5%. Further losses are evident from ADA, HYPE, LINK, XLM, NEAR, TAO, DOT, and others.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, ZEC, XMR, TRX, and BCH are slightly in the green, while BTW has skyrocketed by 47% to over $2.60. On the other hand, TIA, M, CRV, and RENDER have dropped by somewhere between 8%-10% daily.<\/p>\n<p>The total crypto market cap has declined by another 0.5% to $2.790 trillion on CMC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1451102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451102\" style=\"width: 1880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-14-095752.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1451102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-14-095752.png\" alt=\"Cryptocurrency Market Overview October 14. Source: QuantifyCrypto\" width=\"1880\" height=\"827\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1451102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptocurrency Market Overview October 14. Source: QuantifyCrypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-dominance-on-the-rise-as-altcoins-retreat-ahead-of-cpi-market-watch\/\">Bitcoin Dominance on the Rise as Altcoins Retreat Ahead of CPI: Market Watch<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-dominance-on-the-rise-as-altcoins-retreat-ahead-of-cpi-market-watch\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although bitcoin&#8217;s price has remained relatively sluggish on a 24-hour scale, without any significant moves in either direction,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}