By Isaac • September 14, 2026 7:22 pm •
Bitcoin moved higher Monday while the market’s hottest technology trade took a hard hit.
The split was unusually clean. Semiconductor stocks tied to the artificial-intelligence boom sold off after prominent AI executives called for a slower pace of frontier-model development.
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Crypto, meanwhile, traded like a market looking for its own reasons to move.
Decrypt reported that Bitcoin reached $78,280, up nearly 2% from midnight UTC, while Ethereum gained 2.1% and XRP added 3.3%.
The total crypto market capitalization rose about 1.5%. Bitcoin remained about 4.8% below its September record of $82,284, keeping that high close enough to matter if buyers hold the upper-$70,000 range.
The same report tracked a much rougher session for the chip complex.
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