By Isaac • October 20, 2026 11:23 am •
Bitcoin just did something that deserves more attention than another routine price move: it held up surprisingly well while the technology trade around it was being aggressively unwound.
That does not mean Bitcoin suddenly became immune to risk. It does mean the market delivered an unusual real-world stress test, and Bitcoin came through it looking more resilient than many investors would have expected.
According to a detailed analysis from CryptoSlate, Bitcoin fell 1.27% between the October 9 and October 16 closes used in its comparison. Over the same span, the Nasdaq-100 dropped 5.49%.
The closing times were four hours apart, so the comparison is directional rather than synchronized. The gap remains striking: the leading cryptocurrency absorbed
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