# Bitcoin Falls Below $81,000 to $80,925 on Binance Spot Market

By Enna Lee

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/33742
Published: 2026-10-17T05:04:23.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-17T05:04:23.000Z
Section: Investing

> TokenPost's Binance spot tracking put BTC $346 below its reading 15 minutes earlier; the price was down 0.78% over one hour.

Bitcoin (BTC), the cryptocurrency with the largest market capitalization, fell below $81,000 to $80,925 on Binance's spot market at 1:20 p.m. ET (17:20 UTC) Friday, Oct. 16.

TokenPost's own price tracking captured the quote at that time. Fifteen minutes earlier, at 1:05 p.m. ET (17:05 UTC), Bitcoin was at $81,271, or $271 above the $81,000 level. The latest reading was $346 lower and $75 below the threshold.

Bitcoin was down 0.78% over the hour ending at the 1:20 p.m. ET snapshot. That hourly comparison covers a separate period from the 15-minute gap between the $81,271 and $80,925 readings. The two figures show the price moving across the $81,000 mark during the shorter interval.

Bitcoin ranks first by market capitalization. The $81,000 level separates the earlier Binance spot reading from the later one, with $81,271 above the mark and $80,925 below it. The sequence places the crossing within the 15-minute period between the two observations.