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$BTC pumped 9.2% yesterday, all the way to 70K. The long the compression, the bigger the breakout, and Bitcoin proved it again. Got stopped BE on the shorts we've been building since 67K, which is totally fine because we banked nicely with those. I can already hear the "are we
The trigger for $BTC clearing 68k again wasn't crypto native at all. Treasury announced it's doubling long duration bond buybacks, risk appetite came back across every asset class, and that alone pushed over 1.4b in btc shorts into liquidation. Underneath the price move, the
AI visual note: The image displays a Bitcoin ETF Flow table (in US$m) tracking daily net inflows/outflows for major funds—BlackRock's IBIT, Fidelity's FBTC, Bitwise's BITB, ARK's ARKB, Grayscale's GBTC, and others—from August 3-19, 2026, with fee rates and totals showing IBIT leading at 61,399m cumulative and GBTC bleeding 27,528m. The accompanying post contextualizes the late-August price recovery (Aug 17-19 inflows of 160.2m, 143.6m, and 35.6m/77.7m respectively) by attributing $BTC's surge back above 68k to Treasury bond buyback announcements driving risk appetite and $1.4B+ in short liquidations, rather than crypto-native demand.