🚨🇺🇸 Washington just pushed security alerts to Americans in six Middle East countries at once
Embassies sent STEP notices to citizens in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and Oman, while travel security alerts went to Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain and Oman, all of it inside a few hours.
No details have been published about what triggered them.
Bears are sidelined waiting for Bitcoin to drop to $40K, completely ignoring the fact they just missed $58K.
It exactly reminds me of 2022, when people refused to buy at $15K because they were convinced $10K was coming. But $10K never came and Bitcoin exploded 8.5x from $15K to $126K, leaving them sidelined.
The lesson is: don't get left behind chasing the perfect bottom.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Kevin O’Leary says Congress will be forced to revist the Clarity Act after the midterms because it can’t tax crypto without setting clear rules for it.
He also said Bitcoin could hit $1 Million if it can resolve quantum computing.
🇮🇷 Iran's escape route from the blockade is 3,700 trucks deep and rotting in the sun
The overland plan is collapsing at the borders. Truckers wait up to 20 days to reach Turkey, sit for days at the Pakistani crossing with no water, food or sanitation in 122-degree heat, and at Pishin only 40 of the 700 waiting trucks get through on any given day.
Apricots have spoiled in the queues. Iron ore, cement and bottled gas sit stranded.
A container from China now costs $12,000 overland against $3,000 by sea, and the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce puts the blockade's added cost at $18 billion a year, with bottlenecks adding up to a third of the price of ordinary goods by the time they reach Tehran.
Most of that damage is bureaucratic, meaning Iran's own customs system is failing under volume it chose to create.
Food inflation hit 128% in August, and the truckers already walked off the job over fuel prices this month.
Iraq shut its cargo terminals over the weekend after accusing Tehran of launching the pipeline attack from Iraqi soil, which points at the real vulnerability.
Every one of these routes belongs to somebody else, and each neighbor can close a gate whenever the war makes it convenient.
The Alt market cap on the weekly is finally breaking out of an almost 2-year downtrend.
It is now up +10% this week. It's crazy because historically, the 4-year cycle treats 2026 as a bear year, yet the market is pushing higher.
We are still far from the old $451 billion high, so I’m not calling altseason yet. But this is the first genuine breakout attempt we have seen in years.
We need a weekly close above this trendline to sustain the bullish momentum. If it fails, the same $160B–$190B zone could be tested again.
What makes this wild? Bitcoin is back above $77k despite the Clarity Act failing and the Fed hiking interest rates. Alts are printing their first real weekly breakout of 2026 regardless.