PolymarketCryptoLikely noiseUpdated 7m ago

Will the price of Bitcoin be above $82,000 on October 21?

As of Oct 21, 2026, 5:34 AM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 96.0% (up from 37.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $72.2K traded in the past 24 hours, $39.8K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 2.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
96.0%
+58.5 percentage points
over 24 hours37.5% → 96.0%
Moving fastBig move, weak backingResolving soon

Deep, easy-to-trade market — and today's move was spread across many accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Unsettled

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

DeepTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$39.8K

Bid-ask spread

2.0 pts

24h volume

$72.2K

Total volume

$95.5K

The visible order book runs out before the price would rise 5 pts — little resting money above the current price.

Lots of money on the book and a tight spread — a single ordinary order can't move this price much.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
27%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

58

Trades

200

over 2h

Largest order

$8.4K

$69.9K traded across these 200 trades (last 2h).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$69.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT closing at 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) on the date specified in the title has a final "Close" price higher than the price specified in the title. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT closing at 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) on the date specified in the title has a final "Close" price higher than the price specified in the title. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No". The resolution source for this market is Binance, specifically the BTC/USDT "Close" prices currently available at https://www.binance.com/en/trade/BTC_USDT with "1m" and "Candles" selected on the top bar. Please note that this market is about the price according to Binance BTC/USDT, not according to other exchanges or trading pairs. Price precision is determined by the number of decimal places in the source.

Resolution source: binance.com

Why the odds moved

The probability rose 58.5 percentage points over the last 24 hours (37.5% → 96.0%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (binance.com)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 21, 5:42 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: medium · expected error ±24 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: noisy

What's happening

high classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 14.5 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity

Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
6Low
Where the price path tends to go nextmodel estimate
  • Trend continuation56%
  • Stable consensus21%
  • News repricing8%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityMedium· half-life <1h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

Secondary read: leaning toward Resolving soon.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H+3.56H+14.524H+58.57D+58.5

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