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Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since late 2025, capping a week that will go down in the history books: a 23% weekly gain — the largest weekly dollar gain in the asset’s history — powered not by retail FOMO but by the machinery of US fiscal and monetary policy. Ethereum traded back above $2,500, roughly $1.2 billion in leveraged shorts were liquidated in 24 hours, and XRP just posted its best week in 21 months. ...

Bitcoin just did something it hasn’t done since last November: it broke decisively above its 200-day moving average — and it didn’t stop there. Over the past week, BTC surged roughly 23%, climbing to around $77,000 and posting a 100-day high alongside gold. The catalyst? The US Treasury stepped into the bond market with a playbook officials are insisting is “not QE” but that markets have already started pricing as a soft version of yield curve control. ...