🔸 2017: around $0.10 🔸 2018: around $10 🔸 2019: around $30 🔸 2020: around $18 🔸 2021: around $300 🔸 2022: around $240 🔸 2023: around $240 🔸 2024: around $530 🔸 2025: around $700 🔸 2026: around $758
Something interesting is happening in the U.S. job market.
The Information sector lost another 23,000 jobs in August, bringing total employment down to 2.75 million.
That’s the lowest level since the pandemic, and excluding 2020, the lowest since April 2015.
Since the November 2022 peak, the sector has lost around 270,000 jobs, a 12% decline.
And there’s a major reason behind this shift.
AI is starting to replace parts of the skilled workforce across software, data, computing, telecom and other information industries.
This is where Bitcoin becomes interesting.
If AI keeps replacing human labor, the traditional relationship between jobs, income and economic growth could change dramatically.
Bitcoin offers something completely different.
A scarce digital asset that isn’t tied to a job, company or government.
In the short term, rising unemployment could hurt risk assets, including $BTC .
But over the long term, an economy increasingly driven by AI and automation could make Bitcoin’s role as a scarce, independent form of money even more important.
The AI revolution isn’t just changing how we work.
Chainlink has made a strong move higher and is now consolidating around $12.3 after breaking out from the lower range.
$LINK Price is still holding above the Bollinger middle band around $11.40, which keeps the bigger picture bullish. The main level to watch now is $12.60. A clean breakout above that area with strong volume could open the door toward $13.50+.
At the same time, MACD momentum is cooling slightly, so I’d avoid chasing and wait for confirmation.
$WLD watching the $0.39–$0.41 zone for a long. If buyers step in and WLD starts reclaiming higher levels, there’s plenty of room for the move to develop.
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP have surged sharply through August 2026, with BTC gaining nearly 25% and both ETH and XRP climbing over 30% each as the broader crypto market staged a notable recovery.
The three major assets have re-entered focus heading into the final weeks of Q3 2026, with the rally drawing renewed trader attention across the market.
Bitcoin and gold are starting to move more and more alike.
The 90 day correlation between $BTC and gold has climbed to around +0.50, getting close to the record levels we saw during the 2020 pandemic.
What’s even more interesting is that this correlation has more than doubled since the beginning of the year.
For comparison, during the recovery from the 2022 bear market, the correlation only reached around +0.30.
The latest move picked up after the US Treasury announced on August 19 that it would at least double its buybacks of long dated government debt, increasing them from $2 billion to $4 billion per operation.
At the same time, Bitcoin’s correlation with the Nasdaq 100 has fallen to around 0.30, its lowest level in a year.
$LTC is testing a very important resistance around $54 👀
It has tried to break this level before, but this time I’m watching for a clean breakout and hold above it. If buyers finally take control, LTC could start pushing toward the higher targets.
$4 Price is still pushing higher, while the taker long/short ratio hasn’t reached an extreme long level. Even during this move, aggressive selling has continued to show up around the 1.0 area, which suggests we haven’t seen everyone blindly piling into longs yet.
That makes me think there could still be more upside if momentum continues.
🚀 Big Long Setup
Entry: Current levels 🎯 Take Profit: $0.04 🛑 Stop Loss: $0.02
$4 is a BNB Chain memecoin with an active Binance Futures market, so if momentum really catches, positioning can amplify the move quickly.
I’m seeing buying pressure coming in, and the chart is looking more bullish from here. If buyers keep pushing, TAO could have plenty of room to move higher.