Bitcoin at $77,263, Ether at $2,512.60 as Traders Parse Mixed Inflation Print

Bitcoin traded at $77,263, up 0.65% on the day, while Ether changed hands at $2,512.60, up 2.71%, after the latest US inflation print landed close to expectations. Both figures come from Decrypt’s market data; theblock.co independently reported the same directional move in bitcoin and ether following the release, without publishing the specific price levels.

What two sources actually confirm: annual inflation held at 3.4%, headline and core inflation moved in different directions on a yearly versus monthly basis, and both bitcoin and ether rose in the hours after the data. Everything beyond that, including the exact Fed-odds figure and a named analyst’s read on the split, traces to a single outlet at this stage.

The inflation split behind the move

Annual inflation came in at 3.4%, and core inflation cooled on a year-over-year basis. But the monthly core reading ran hotter than the annual trend would suggest, a divergence that left rate-setters with a mixed picture rather than a clean signal in either direction.

theblock.co, citing Bitget analyst Lewis Huang, described a split between headline inflation accelerating on energy costs while core inflation kept easing underneath. That characterization appears in one of the two reports reviewed here; it is not contradicted by the other, but it also has not been independently corroborated, so it should be read as single-sourced rather than confirmed.

Fed odds: one number, one source

Decrypt put the market-implied odds tied to the Fed’s next rate decision at roughly 62%, a figure that did not shift meaningfully after the inflation data. theblock.co’s report, blocked behind a JavaScript challenge at the time of review, did not surface a comparable percentage, so the 62% figure carries a single-source flag until a second outlet publishes the same number.

For traders, the practical takeaway is narrower than the headlines suggest. The inflation print did not clearly tilt the Fed toward a hold or a cut, and the crypto market’s reaction, a broad but modest rally across bitcoin and ether, reads more like relief that nothing worse arrived than conviction about the next policy move.

Why the sourcing gap matters here

Both outlets agree on the direction of the market. They diverge on the granular numbers behind it. That is a common pattern around scheduled macro releases: the underlying event, an inflation report and an upcoming Fed decision, is verifiable and shared, while the analytical framing, the exact odds percentage and the named quote, often traces back to whichever desk got a source on the phone first.

Bitcoin sat at $77,263 and Ether at $2,512.60 at the time these reports were filed. The next scheduled data point is the Fed’s rate decision itself, which will settle whether the 62% odds figure, currently attributed to one source, held up.

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Sources

• theblock.co
• decrypt.co