Bitcoin closes Saturday at $80,769.67, its lowest since September 17; ether at $2,355.36

Bitcoin fell for a third straight day to close at $80,769.67 on Saturday, October 24, its lowest daily close since September 17, according to daily candles from Coinbase Exchange. Ether closed at $2,355.36.

What happened

All figures are Coinbase Exchange closes at 00:00 UTC. Bitcoin closed at $84,024.67 on Wednesday, October 21, then $81,307.16 on Thursday, $81,078.04 on Friday and $80,769.67 on Saturday. That is a decline of 0.4% on the day and 3.9% from Wednesday. On September 17 bitcoin had closed at $76,348.74 before rising to $80,875.04 the next day.

Ether closed at $2,471.78 on Wednesday, $2,385.86 on Thursday, $2,384.38 on Friday and $2,355.36 on Saturday, down 1.2% on the day and 4.7% from Wednesday. Its last lower close was $2,326.35 on August 20.

The wider range

Bitcoin's highest daily close in the data from April onward is $86,594.94 on September 21, and Saturday's close is 6.7% below it. Ether's highest close in the same data is $2,775.58, also on September 21, and Saturday's close is 15.1% below it. Bitcoin's intraday low on Saturday was $79,107.00 and its high was $81,106.03.

The Coinbase data show Sunday's candle, for October 25, was still in progress when the data were retrieved, so it is not included in these figures.