{"id":78476,"date":"2026-09-21T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-price-rips-to-87k-and-suddenly-90k-is-back-in-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:41:17","slug":"bitcoin-price-rips-to-87k-and-suddenly-90k-is-back-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-price-rips-to-87k-and-suddenly-90k-is-back-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Rips to $87K, and Suddenly $90K Is Back in the Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $87,374 on Sept. 21, its strongest level since late January.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Bitcoin gained roughly 6%-7% in 24 hours as short covering and institutional flows fueled the move.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Bitcoin remains about 31% below its $126,277 peak, leaving traders to debate how much farther it can run.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Bitcoin Price Roars Back Above $87K, and Traders Scramble for Answers<\/h2>\n<p>The price of bitcoin and the myriad of other altcoins seeing massive gains has people excited. \u201cLast time you\u2019ll see Bitcoin under $100K?\u201d the stock-to-flow (S2F) creator <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/100trillionUSD\/status\/2101979294847164768?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan B wrote on X<\/a> on Monday. \u201cLook at the October column. Uptober is loading,\u201d the pseudonymous analyst added. What\u2019s interesting is that September has historically been a rough month for bitcoin (BTC) prices, while October has more often delivered a green market.<\/p>\n<p>The leading crypto asset has staged a powerful performance over the last week, crossing the 50-period weekly moving average (MA) before extending Monday\u2019s intraday run to $87,374. The advance also ripped through a heavily watched $83,000 to $86,000 liquidation zone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/liquidations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forcing hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a> in bearish positions out of the market. U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $433 million in net inflows on Friday, Sept. 18, while Strategy revealed Monday that it acquired another 950 BTC last week, lifting its enormous stash to 846,000 BTC.<\/p>\n<h2>Crypto Traders Ask the $90,000 Question<\/h2>\n<p>These forces have ignited a torrent of debate across social media, with people asking what sent bitcoin\u2019s price rocketing higher, whether the momentum can hold, and just how much farther it might climb. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fergalpha\/status\/2101971704272535679?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One X user claimed<\/a> this will be the last mega return on investment (ROI) crypto bull run. \u201cThis is the last mega ROI crypto bull,\u201d the trader wrote on X. \u201cYou will never be able to 10-20-30x coins like you be able to here shortly ever again. This is it. The final glitch in the matrix. Perform,\u201d the account added.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/bitcoin\/embed\" width=\"100%\" style=\"max-height:500px;height:500px;border:none;overflow:hidden;border-radius:4px\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"bitcoin market data\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, altcoin fans expect another Altcoin Season and believe it could arrive imminently. \u201cALTSEASON 3.0 STARTS HERE,\u201d another X account wrote on the social media platform. \u201cOTHERS just broke a weekly downtrend from 2024. Every time this happens, alts go vertical. Lock in.\u201d Presently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchaincenter.net\/altcoin-season-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Altcoin Season Index<\/a> shows a score of 47, and it needs to tap 75 or higher to replace Bitcoin Season with Altcoin Season.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, while bitcoin\u2019s price has jumped roughly 6% to 7% over the past 24 hours, a great deal of altcoins have registered even larger gains. Ethereum, solana, XRP and monero have moved higher alongside BTC, while several smaller crypto assets have posted double-digit increases during Monday\u2019s session. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/price\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitcoin\u2019s $87,374 intraday price<\/a> peak now puts the psychologically important $90,000 level squarely in view, although BTC remains roughly 31% below its Oct. 6, 2025, all-time high near $126,277.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/bitcoin-price-rips-to-87k-and-suddenly-90k-is-back-in-the-conversation\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $87,374 on Sept. 21, its strongest level since late January. Bitcoin gained roughly 6%-7% in 24 hours as short covering and institutional flows fueled the move. Bitcoin remains about 31% below its $126,277 peak, leaving traders to debate how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":78477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}