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Daily Crypto Discussion - August 22, 2026

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Am I overweighting the short squeeze on this move?

Spent a while going through this one and wanted to sanity check my read, because I might be weighting things wrong. The facts as I understand them: Treasury doubled its long-dated buyback size from $2bn to $4bn per operation, and the 30-year came off 5.34% (a 19-year high) down to …

Bitcoin Was Too Scary at $64K. Now Everyone Wants It Near $78K.

Kraken Wants to Become a Bank. Crypto spent seventeen years promising to destroy the banking system. Kraken’s next move suggests something far more interesting may be happening instead: the exchanges are becoming the banks.

I backtested 42 public Freqtrade strategies on 8 years of BTC data. 33 lost money.

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Trying not to FOMO this alt move. Which utility coins pass the why does the token exist test?

Trying not to FOMO this alt move. Which utility coins pass the why does the token exist test? This sub spent months saying most alts were dead and now everything is green again and every bag suddenly has fundamentals lol. I’m trying to stick to stuff where I can explain …

Hope I Read This Right

I have been taking profit on a few alts the last two days. Just things that I bought low enough to anticipate a 5x in the next bull market that has since dropped even lower prior to this current spike. I chose three that I thought were most likely to …

Bitcoin Is Up 23% and Everyone Is Crediting the Wrong Catalyst

Bitcoin Core Just Ran Inside a zkVM: What If New Nodes Could Verify 17 Years of Bitcoin in Milliseconds?

**Bitcoin Core just ran inside a zkVM.** That could change how new nodes verify Bitcoin forever. Instead of replaying **17 years of history**, imagine verifying a tiny cryptographic proof in milliseconds. Not trust. Not a snapshot. **Proof.** The catch? Creating that proof is still brutally expensive. But if this scales, …

Daily Crypto Discussion - August 21, 2026

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