₿ BITCOIN NOW — 23 August 2026
📍 Price: ~$77,000–$77,700 (Bybit / bitFlyer / Robinhood / Yahoo)
🚀 24h: +7…+8% — rally for the second day
💰 Daily range: $76,600 – $78,750
🎯 Overnight BTC broke $80,000 for the first time since the start of the cycle
🔥 $3B in shorts liquidated on the way to $71K (20.08)
WHAT’S HAPPENING
• BTC holds $76,500–$78,000 after the breakout to $80,000 and the pullback
• Intraday high $78,754 (Bybit); pullback within normal correction after +20% for the week
• Polymarket: outcome ">72K" for 23 August is already trading at 97%
💬 EXPERTS
🔹 Phemex: “A confident close above $75K → target $82K–$83K.”
🔹 CNBC: “BTC $77,000, +20% for the week on a pullback in Treasury yields.”
🔹 Kalshi traders: bet on $75K by end of 2026 — don’t believe in $100K.
🔹 Investtech: “Resistance at $74K is broken; next are $78K / $80K / $85K.”
🔹 Bar Chart: “RSI at the most overbought level since November 2024.”
⚖️ LEVELS
🟢 Support: $74,000 → $72,500 → $70,000 → $67,000 → $65,000 → $62,500
🔴 Resistance: $78,000 → $80,000 (psychological) → $82,000 → $85,000
📊 ETF NEWS
🏦 Aug 21: BTC-ETF +$239.3M (Farside)
🏦 Aug 22: total inflow into BTC+ETH Spot ETFs ~ $800M (CoinDesk)
📈 Institutions returned after 6 weeks of outflows
🏛 THE MAIN DRIVER — POLITICS
🎯 Trump publicly urged Congress to pass the CLARITY Act (Forbes)
⚖️ H.R.3633 — one Senate vote needed before the president signs it
🏛 SEC + CFTC: new rules + 24/7 trading
$BTC
📍 Price: ~$77,000–$77,700 (Bybit / bitFlyer / Robinhood / Yahoo)
🚀 24h: +7…+8% — rally for the second day
💰 Daily range: $76,600 – $78,750
🎯 Overnight BTC broke $80,000 for the first time since the start of the cycle
🔥 $3B in shorts liquidated on the way to $71K (20.08)
WHAT’S HAPPENING
• BTC holds $76,500–$78,000 after the breakout to $80,000 and the pullback
• Intraday high $78,754 (Bybit); pullback within normal correction after +20% for the week
• Polymarket: outcome ">72K" for 23 August is already trading at 97%
💬 EXPERTS
🔹 Phemex: “A confident close above $75K → target $82K–$83K.”
🔹 CNBC: “BTC $77,000, +20% for the week on a pullback in Treasury yields.”
🔹 Kalshi traders: bet on $75K by end of 2026 — don’t believe in $100K.
🔹 Investtech: “Resistance at $74K is broken; next are $78K / $80K / $85K.”
🔹 Bar Chart: “RSI at the most overbought level since November 2024.”
⚖️ LEVELS
🟢 Support: $74,000 → $72,500 → $70,000 → $67,000 → $65,000 → $62,500
🔴 Resistance: $78,000 → $80,000 (psychological) → $82,000 → $85,000
📊 ETF NEWS
🏦 Aug 21: BTC-ETF +$239.3M (Farside)
🏦 Aug 22: total inflow into BTC+ETH Spot ETFs ~ $800M (CoinDesk)
📈 Institutions returned after 6 weeks of outflows
🏛 THE MAIN DRIVER — POLITICS
🎯 Trump publicly urged Congress to pass the CLARITY Act (Forbes)
⚖️ H.R.3633 — one Senate vote needed before the president signs it
🏛 SEC + CFTC: new rules + 24/7 trading
$BTC
