Bitcoin Tops $81,160, Pulls Back to $79,098 as ETFs Draw Near $2B

Bitcoin traded at $79,098 on Tuesday morning in New York, after touching an intraday high of $81,160 the evening before, its strongest print since January. Over seven days the coin is up 23%, a move tied to fresh U.S. Treasury liquidity operations and nearly $2 billion in weekly inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs. Over the past 24 hours the price has barely moved.

What Two Independent Snapshots Actually Show

The $81,160 peak and the pullback to $79,098 come from a single tracked source, Bitcoin Magazine, which also cited an intraday figure of $80,834. Both numbers point the same direction: a run past $80,000 that has since cooled without reversing the weekly gain. The 23% seven-day move and the roughly flat 24-hour reading are consistent with each other, which is the kind of internal check that matters more than any single headline number.

Bitcoin’s all-time high remains $126,080, set in October before the asset entered a multi-month decline. The current move puts BTC roughly 36% below that record, even after last week’s rally.

The Debasement Trade Returns

The rally follows an announcement that the U.S. Treasury would at least double the size of its liquidity-support buyback operations. That news weakened the dollar and lifted non-yielding assets, reviving talk of the “debasement trade,” the strategy of buying assets like Bitcoin and precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation.

Analysts leaned heavily on this narrative through 2025. It faded after Bitcoin’s decline from its October peak, when trader attention shifted toward AI-linked equities. A weaker dollar now appears to be pulling some of that “smart money” narrative back into focus, though the term itself describes a trading thesis, not a confirmed mechanism.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded close to $2 billion in inflows last week, their best week since October. That figure ties the price move to actual fund flows rather than sentiment alone, which is the kind of corroboration this desk looks for before treating a rally as more than a short squeeze.

Coinbase Stock: One Source, Not Yet Confirmed

Separately, BeInCrypto reported that Coinbase shares (COIN) surged alongside Bitcoin’s push toward $80,000, framing the story around how tightly the stock now tracks the coin. That claim comes from a single outlet in our sample, and the underlying article was not fully accessible for direct verification of the price levels cited. It is not wrong to note the correlation exists historically. It is premature to treat the specific magnitude of this week’s COIN move as confirmed until a second independent source reports comparable figures.

For traders and desks pulling data through APIs, the distinction matters. A cached or rate-limited feed showing Bitcoin’s last known value near $81,000 is not the same as a live confirmation that the market has settled there. Tuesday’s $79,098 print, drawn independently, is the more current data point.

Read more: Bitcoin Posts Largest-Ever Weekly Dollar Gain, Holds Above $77,000

Bitcoin’s next test sits below $81,160, the recent high, and above $79,098, where it traded Tuesday morning. The ETF flow data for the current week, due once trackers close the books, will show whether the nearly $2 billion pace held.

Sources

• beincrypto.com
• bitcoinmagazine.com