Bitcoin Doesn't Take Weekends Off: BTC Holds $82K With the CLARITY Vote 9 Days Out — CPI, the FOMC and the Most Consequential Week of 2026 Are All Here
Somewhere between Friday’s close and this morning, Bitcoin did something both quiet and loud at the same time: it stayed up. No fireworks, no fresh flush — just a market that took the most hawkish US jobs surprise of the year, absorbed a $757 million liquidation cascade and a dip below $79,000, and converted all of it into a third consecutive green weekly close with a high at $82,272 we haven’t seen since May 11. Weekends are when the unprepared panic over noise and the prepared finalize their plans. Nine days from now, the US Senate votes on the CLARITY Act — and if you’re not positioned before that gavel falls, you’ll watch 2026’s biggest repricing from the wrong side of the window, again. ...