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I write 3 days a week so you don’t have to scroll endlessly to keep up. Weekdays: one thing worth knowing and 2 coin analysis. Sundays: market recap, plus my own read on where we are. Also my $100/month portfolio is public — trades, reasons, all of it.
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One factory number stands between us and Altseason (opens the original)
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What HappenedIt took bitcoin 45 weeks to climb back above its 50-week moving average and about three hours on Monday morning to make everyone shorting it regret the whole idea. The weekly candle closed at $81,159 on September 20, the first close above that average since the October 2025 top, and once European traders logged in on Monday the squeeze was on.BeInCrypto counted roughly $262 million of shorts wiped out in a single hour, price ran through the early-September high like it wasn’t there,
The worst week of the year, and Bitcoin closed at the top (opens the original)
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What HappenedAt 2:15 on Tuesday afternoon, Washington time, the Senate finally held the vote the crypto industry had spent two years and an ocean of super PAC money trying to reach, and the CLARITY Act lost 49 to 50. It lost on something most people in crypto barely cared about. The SEC and CFTC split, the part that would have told everyone which regulator owns which token, was more or less settled. What sank it was the ethics section, and specifically whether the rules on officials holding cryp
Crypto rises either way (opens the original)
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What HappenedThe Fed is one vote away from its first hike since 2023. August CPI landed Friday morning and the headline number did what everyone expected, 3.4% annual, up 0.4% on the month, mostly gasoline. The figure that moved the market was core, which rose 0.3% against a 0.2% forecast and accelerated from July. Annual core actually held at 2.4%, which is the lowest reading in years, so a lot of desks could have written “inflation cools” on Friday and been accurate. Nobody did.<a class="image
$100k before October? (opens the original)
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What HappenedBitcoin’s biggest ETF day since January landed on the same afternoon the Treasury bought back $12.5 billion of its own debt. US spot bitcoin ETFs took $730.8 million in net creations on September 3, the largest single session since January 14 and the third biggest of the year, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for $454 million of it, ARK’s ARKB $137.7 million and Fidelity’s FBTC $74.4 million, so three funds carried around 91% of the total.That same day the Treasury completed a $12.5
How much of this crypto rally is actually real? (opens the original)
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What HappenedKevin Warsh stood up in Wyoming on Friday morning and spent about thirty minutes explaining, in careful language, why he was not going to tell anyone what the Fed intends to do. He said the economy is at full employment, that the summer’s inflation readings do not convince him underlying trends have improved, that the 2% target is firm and fixed, and that financial conditions are not currently restrictive. He also joked that his outline could be called a trail map, “but please just
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