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Seguo il crypto da anni ormai, e di tanto in tanto, hai una settimana che ti fa sedere dritto e pensare — le cose si stanno davvero muovendo. Questa settimana passata è stata una di quelle.
Tra le principali quotazioni sugli scambi, movimenti istituzionali da miliardi di dollari, infrastrutture di agenti AI che diventano operative, e alcune notizie davvero incredibili dal mondo della regolamentazione e della sicurezza — questa non è stata una settimana lenta in alcun modo. Quindi prendi un caffè, mettiti comodo, e lasciami guidarti attraverso ogni cosa importante che è successa tra il 13 e il 19 febbraio 2026.

Per dodici giorni consecutivi, dopo una brutale capitolazione del 5 febbraio, Bitcoin è rimasto bloccato in un instabile stallo — oscillando tra $60.000 e $70.000 come un combattente che riprende fiato tra i round. Una fazione di osservatori di mercato ha abbracciato questo torpore come un presagio di stabilizzazione, forse persino il sfuggente nadir del ciclo. Ma un contingente crescente di analisti esperti sta bucando quel ottimismo con una precisione scomoda. Il nocciolo del dibattito non è se Bitcoin si aggrappi al supporto — è se quel punto di appoggio sia roccia o sabbia mobile.

Selling pressure on River (RIVER) has intensified following the breakdown of a major support level at $11.20. After a 32% drop, the altcoin printed its second consecutive red candle on the daily chart, with its price action suggesting that the press time level might be a make-or-break zone for the crypto.
On 18 February, RIVER lost over 32% of its value in just 24 hours, with the altcoin trading at $8.51 at press time. Despite the sustained price decline, market participants have shown strong interest in the asset though. This can be evidenced by the trading volume surging by more than 110% to $90.95 million.
Investors and traders show mixed sentiment
Amid this uncertainty, derivatives and analytics tools revealed that some traders strongly believe in a potential reversal, while others are still offloading their holdings.
According to Nansen, RIVER’s exchange reserves across CEXs and DEXs jumped by 7.08% in 24 hours. This surge suggested that investors have been moving their RIVER holdings to exchanges in preparation for a potential sell-off.
On the other hand, the derivatives analytics platform Coinglass found that intraday traders have been increasingly betting on the bullish side. Strong interest emerged around the $8.04-level on the downside (support), while the $8.58-level on the upside (resistance) saw comparatively lower interest.
At these levels, traders built $1.77 million in long leveraged positions and $1.02 million in short leveraged positions. This seemed to imply that bearish interest might be fading, with traders strongly believing that RIVER’s price is unlikely to fall below $8.04 anytime soon.

RIVER’s price action eyes $8.25-level
On the daily charts, RIVER’s price seemed to be taking support at the key level of $8.25.
Based on its previous performances, when the altcoin previously broke below the $11.20 support, it saw a sharp decline of over 35%. If RIVER breaks this support again, it could see another heavy fall in the coming days. Especially since there appeared to be no clear support near this level.
The bearish thesis would only be validated if RIVER closes a daily candle below the $8.25-level. If that happens, the altcoin could record a further downside move of around 48% in the coming days. However, if the price holds above this key support, a recovery might follow.
Meanwhile, amid this uncertainty, a crypto expert is predicting that RIVER’s price could continue its downward momentum and even hit the $7.50-level.
At the time of writing, the Average Directional Index (ADX) had a value of 18.89, below the key threshold of 25. This finding highlighted the asset’s weak directional momentum.
Final Summary
Following a 32% fall, RIVER’s price action is now all dependent on a key price level on the charts. Altcoin’s exchange reserves jumped by 7.08% while intraday traders have been increasingly betting on a potential reversal.
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I saw the notification like everyone else did. Bitcoin below $66,000. Fed minutes. Hawkish language. Markets rattled. My phone buzzed several times in the span of about two minutes — group chats, alerts, people sharing the same news in five different formats as if repetition might help it land differently.

I put the phone down and went to make coffee.

That's not indifference. I want to be clear about that. I care about this space in a way that has genuinely shaped how I think about money, trust, and the way value moves through the world. But somewhere along the way — after enough volatile days, enough anxious decisions I later regretted — I stopped letting price movements be the first thing that shapes my morning. Getting to that place cost me something. But it was worth it.

The Fed minutes spooked markets because they said something investors didn't particularly want to hear. Higher rates, longer. That kind of language makes people reassess where they're willing to hold risk, and crypto sits squarely in that category for most institutional thinking. So when the mood shifted, Bitcoin felt it immediately. That's just the honest reality of where things stand right now in terms of how this asset class is perceived and positioned.

But that's not what I spent the morning thinking about.

I kept coming back to someone I know — a guy in his mid-thirties who runs a small logistics business. Nothing flashy. He has contractors spread across three different countries, and for a long time paying them was one of the most tedious parts of his month. Bank delays, transfer fees, exchange rate losses that quietly added up to a number he didn't like when he actually sat down and calculated it.

A contact suggested he try a different approach. He was skeptical — the reasonable kind of skeptical that keeps you from doing something reckless. But he tried it. And it worked. So he tried it again. And it worked again. Now it's just part of how he runs things. He doesn't think about it much anymore, the same way you don't think about the tool in your hand once you trust it.

Today, while everyone was parsing Fed language and watching charts, he paid his contractors. On time. Without the monthly ordeal.

Nobody wrote an article about that.

I think about reliability a lot — not as an abstract quality but as something you feel in specific moments. The moment you hit send on something important and you're not sure if it's going to work. The moment you're waiting on a confirmation and the stakes feel real. Those moments strip away everything theoretical and leave you with just the raw question: does this actually hold up when it matters?

I've had moments where the answer was no. Where fees spiked at the worst possible time, or a delay turned a simple task into something stressful and unpleasant. I'm not going to pretend those experiences didn't happen or that they didn't leave a mark. They're part of my honest relationship with this technology, and they've made me more careful, more realistic, and ultimately more discerning about what I trust and why.

But I've also had enough moments where the answer was yes — quietly, undramatically, without anyone applauding — that something has accumulated. A kind of practical confidence that doesn't come from reading about the technology but from using it when it counted.

A woman I spoke with a while back manages finances for a mid-sized company. She described the first time her team used Bitcoin for an international settlement as one of the more nerve-wracking experiences of her professional life. Not because anything went wrong. Because nothing felt familiar. Her entire mental framework had been built around a different system, and this required her to just trust something she didn't yet have a relationship with.

It worked. The second time was calmer. Now it's just a tool she reaches for when the situation calls for it. That shift — from white-knuckled uncertainty to quiet routine — is the most honest version of adoption I've ever seen described. No hype. Just repetition building into trust.

That arc takes time. It also takes the technology holding up its end of the deal consistently enough that the trust feels justified rather than wishful. And what I keep noticing, through days like today when the price drops and sentiment sours, is that the underlying utility tends to keep functioning with a kind of indifference to the drama surrounding it. The network doesn't read Fed minutes. Payments still process. Settlements still happen.

There's something almost quietly stubborn about that.

I'm not asking anyone to ignore price. It matters — to investors, to businesses, to individuals who made real decisions based on real assumptions. I'm not dismissing that weight. But I've slowly come to believe that the truest measure of this ecosystem isn't found in any particular number on any particular morning. It's found in the accumulation of small, ordinary moments where someone needed something to work and it did. No drama. No celebration. Just function.

That consistency, built up over time through millions of unremarkable interactions, is what I keep returning to on the days when everything looks shaky from the outside. It doesn't make the headlines. It doesn't trend. But it's the thing that, in my experience, has proven most durable.

Price rattles. Utility persists. And on the mornings when I remember that clearly enough — it's a lot easier to just make the coffee and let the noise settle on its own.

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