Bitcoin Drops to $80.5K, KOSPI Crashes 8%, CoreWeave Debt Tumbles

Welcome to Stock Market Today — your market briefing with actionable insights on stocks, bonds, crypto, and the events moving markets. Let's get into it. Bitcoin at eighty thousand five hundred forty nine dollars. Ethereum twenty three hundred forty eight. Risk-off contagion spreading from Seoul to crypto markets. South Korea's KOSPI crashed eight percent Thursday after Samsung and SK Hynix led semiconductor carnage. SK Hynix down eleven percent, Samsung Electronics off nine and a half percent on AI debt concerns and Chinese competition. Nearly one billion dollars in crypto positions liquidated over twenty-four hours—Ethereum traders took the heaviest hit with two hundred eighty six million wiped out. Bitcoin holding critical eighty thousand dollar support after testing eighty thousand one hundred fifty four overnight. The real story: AI infrastructure financing stress is crossing asset classes. CoreWeave bonds tumbling hard since April raising red flags across high-yield markets. Anthropic just disclosed third-quarter revenue hit sixteen point eight billion but growth decelerated sharply to fifty percent from one hundred forty five percent prior quarter. That's spooking investors on AI spending sustainability. Nasdaq futures down over one percent extending Wednesday's nearly two percent rout. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC any moratorium on U.S. data center construction would trigger recession. Moody's estimates seven hundred billion in U.S. data center capex this year alone. But Fink also sounded alarm on national debt—now forty trillion, up thirty two trillion since 2000. That fiscal pressure traditionally bullish for Bitcoin and gold as debasement hedges. Regulatory developments: Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan proposed Wall Street firms build regulated businesses on his blockchain without requiring the chain itself to register as an exchange. Kraken parent Payward acquiring Lithuania's Saldo Bank—first crypto company buying EU bank—unlocking deposit and lending services across Europe. Bitcoin spot ETF outflows: two hundred sixty one million Wednesday alone. Fed rate-hike odds cooled to twenty nine percent for late October. Eighty thousand support critical for Bitcoin. Break below opens path to test mid-to-upper seventy thousands. That wraps your market intel — trade smart out there. For deeper insights and real-time analysis, visit capitalcopilot dot i o.