“Volatility is just price doing cardio.”
QUESTION OF THE DAY
BTC tags $111K at lunch—do you scale in (pre-set ladders), hedge (short-dated puts), or ghost the chart until a daily close back over $120K? Why?
MARKET ANALYSIS
- Crypto market adds $190 billion in a day after historic crash (Finbold, Decrypt)
- Coinbase and Korean Premium (aka Kimchi Signal) Just Flashed Again (BeInCrypto)
- Hyperliquid whale who made $150 million with short bet opens new $160 million short (The Block, Cointelegraph)
- Crypto fundraising sets new record of $3.5B in a single week (Cointelegraph)
BITCOIN PRICE ACTION
- Bitcoin recovers above $114,000 as crypto market stabilizes from historic wipeout (The Block)
- Bitcoin price reclaims key level as traders say $150K BTC still in play (Cointelegraph)
- Bitcoin May Tank to $100K as Friday’s BTC Crash Reinforced 2017–21 Trendline Resistance (CoinDesk)
BITCOIN NETWORK
- Bitcoin Core v30 goes live with controversial OP_RETURN change (Cointelegraph)
BITCOIN MINING
- BTC Mining Firm Marathon (MARA) Scoops Up 400 BTC After Price Crash, On-Chain Data Show (CoinDesk, Decrypt)
ADOPTION
- Steak ‘n Shake quickly U-turns as Ether poll angers Bitcoiners (Cointelegraph)
- Bhutan migrates its national ID system to Ethereum (Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block)
- Citi announces crypto custody in 2026, JPMorgan stays cautious (The Street) (E)
- Steak ‘n Shake Dumps Ethereum Payments Plan After Pushback From Bitcoin Maxis (Decrypt) (E)
STRATEGIC RESERVE and DATs
- Strategy added 220 BTC for $27.2M last week as Bitcoin posted new highs (Cointelegraph, The Block, The Daily Hodl, Decrypt, CoinDesk, UToday)
- Bitcoin and DATs primed for explosive 2026 (Cointelegraph)
- Tom Lee's BitMine Adds $838 Million More in Ethereum Amid Market Chaos (Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk)
- JUST IN: 🇬🇧 Politician Nigel Farage supports adding Bitcoin to the UK’s reserves if elected (E)
ETEHREUM
- ETH readies to reclaim $4.5K as futures markets stabilize from crypto flash crash (Cointelegraph)
STABLECOINS
- Tether and Circle Inject Billions After Weekend Market Crash (BeInCrypto)
ETFs
- Crypto funds attract $3.2B inflows despite Friday’s flash crash (Cointelegraph)
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💥 JUST IN: Europe's largest asset manager, Amundi to launch a Bitcoin ETF. They hold more than $2 TRILLION in assets 🔥(E)
POLITICS
- JUST IN: 🇰🇪 Kenyan parliament passes Bitcoin and crypto law in an attempt to boost investments The "Virtual Asset Providers Bill" seeks to address worries over a lack of clear regulations (E)
VOICES
- Paolo Ardoino: Tether CEO ‘Bitcoin and Gold Will Outlast Any Other Currency’ (CoinDesk)
- MICHAEL SAYLOR: "Bitcoin is money. Everything else is credit."
- MICHAEL SAYLOR: “I don't think there is a single person with a negative opinion that's spent 100 hours studying Bitcoin”
- JUST IN: Larry FInk: BlackRock CEO says he was WRONG about Bitcoin “There is a role for crypto the same way there is a role for gold.” (Decrypt)
- Howard Lutnick,: "Every time Bitcoin dips, I’m gonna be the buyer.” U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Peter Brandt: Legendary Trader Adds '5% BTC' to Retirement Plans (E)
- JUST IN: Richard Teng: Binance CEO says multiple countries are buying Bitcoin for their national reserves. Nation-states are stacking sats 🔥 (E)
- JUST IN: JPMORGAN confirms on CNBC that they will allow clients to trade Bitcoin and crypto next year (E)
WHAT TO WATCH
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