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Welcome back to the Daily Crypto Roundup. Britain may now have a clearer path to keeping 61,000 seized Bitcoin, but the people who say that fortune was stolen from them are not finished fighting. At the same time, South Korea is blocking 27 exchanges. Russia's largest bank has been cleared to trade crypto, and one chip stock bet produced more liquidations than XRP.

Today is really about who controls access, ownership and risk. At the time of recording, Bitcoin is around $83,494, up approximately 1% over 24 hours after falling as low as $81,018.

Ethereum is near $2,516, down roughly 0.5%.

XRP is about $1.38 and almost flat. Solana is around $107.55, down about 1.2% and Hyperliquid is near $81.27, down roughly 3.6%.

The meaningful move is Bitcoin's $2,500 recovery from the Asian session low, but the wider market is not confirming a clean risk on turn. Tell us whether you see this as resilience or merely another rebound inside the same range. This is not financial advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss. New Kraken users who sign up using our link in the description can claim 20 XRP from Crypto News Today. Availability and eligibility vary by region. The 20 XRP is supplied by Crypto News Today, not Kraken. Crypto News Today is getting more active on X as well, so follow us at Crypto News HQ. That's at Crypto News HQ, for headlines and discussion between episodes.

The lead is a high court judgment involving one of the largest Bitcoin seizures ever made by British police. The Metropolitan Police seized approximately 61,000 Bitcoin during the investigation into Ximen Qian, who pleaded guilty after a vast fraud conducted in China.

At today's price, those coins are worth about $5 billion. More than 128,000 investment contracts were connected with schemes run between 2014 and 2017

The victims argued that English law should help them establish property rights over the recovered Bitcoin. Mr. Justice Mark Turner ruled that Chinese law governs those claims because the alleged fraud, payments and immediate losses occurred in China. His reasoning was direct. The relevant damage occurred in China.

That does not mean the United Kingdom owns the Bitcoin today. The judgment answers which country's law applies before the court decides whether individual victims can establish an interest in the coins. A further hearing is expected, and lawyers representing victims intend to appeal. What changed is the legal route. What did not change is final ownership. The British government benefits if fewer claimants can prove a proprietary right and the assets ultimately pass to the Treasury. Victims lose leverage if Chinese law gives them only a creditor claim rather than ownership of specific property.

The strongest counterargument to treating this as a state windfall is that the court has not heard the Chinese law evidence or resolved the substantive claims. If the appeal succeeds, or the next hearing recognizes enforceable property interests under Chinese law, the current interpretation changes. For an ordinary holder, the lesson is bigger than one court case. Blockchain possession does not settle legal ownership when coins represent proceeds of crime. If your stolen assets were recovered after multiplying in value, should you receive the original loss, the coins themselves, or something in between? The next story is the market's violent round trip. Bitcoin briefly fell below $81,000 while South Korea's KOSPI sank more than 5% and memory chip shares were hit by fears of stronger Chinese competition. Reuters reported the United States' 10-year Treasury yield easing to about 5.19%, oil falling and the dollar pulling back, which later helped the broader risk backdrop. But United States' spot Bitcoin funds still recorded about $69 million of net withdrawals on Monday, leaving October demand weak. Approximately $803 million of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours across 10 exchanges.

Bullish positions represented about 86% of those losses. Then the move reversed. As Bitcoin returned above $83,000, short sellers accounted for 79% of roughly $74 million liquidated over the following 4 hours. That is not proof of fresh long-term demand. It shows forced selling on the way down and forced buying on the way back. The recovery improves if Bitcoin absorbs the visible sell orders around $84,000 to $84,500 and then holds that area. It weakens below $82,000, with $81,000 and $80,000 exposed again.

Wednesday's United States Inflation Report is the next scheduled test. BTSE Chief Operating Officer Jeff May says stronger inflation could push Bitcoin below $80,000, while softer data could support a move above $86,000.

That is a scenario, not a prediction of what the report will contain. South Korea has now extended its exchange crackdown from mobile applications to websites. The Financial Intelligence Unit says access to 27 unregistered operators, including KuCoin, BitMart and MEXC, will be blocked after regulatory reviews on October 6th and 7th. Domestic services face termination, while overseas sites face access restrictions. The regulator says it can request a block as soon as it detects unregistered business, without waiting for reported customer losses. It has referred 44 operators to investigators, and only 28 virtual asset service providers are currently registered. The immediate winners are licensed Korean exchanges. The losers are users who may find access interrupted while funds remain on an offshore platform.