Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

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[ESG]

......if your bitcoin accumulation conviction had extended back to the time of your forum registration date.  So in that regard, if you had started investing $100 per week in September 2018 (around the time of your forum registration) - which is nearly 8 years ago, you would have had invested slightly less than $41k, and you would have accumulated close to 2.4 BTC, which surely would not be a bad place to be for anyone accumulating bitcoin for that amount of time.

 -Yes, cool, thanks for reminding me.
 My first BTC purchase was in 2013, because I had already tried to
import some marijuana seeds, and I paid with a credit card,
and the shipment was seized(3 or 4 x) as soon as it arrived in my country.,
so I understood that the credit card company already warned customs,
 so I did some searches for sites that accepted BTC, and I found Seedsman,(if u Want, i can login on my seedsman account, do an print, and provide u a proof) which in addition
 to accepting BTC, they also offered the service of masking(stealth shippment) the order for a few more money,...
 And finally, it arrived and I was very happy that bitcoin exists,
nowadays it is accepted even for payment of oil tanker tolls!!
 
 -How cool. I feel very happy about that!!

...But unfortunately, at the time, I understood bitcoin as an electronic money tool, very volatile by the way, it cost a some of bitcoins half a dozen seeds, and I remember that after I paid the order, I sold the remaining BTCs, and cashed the money, year later when I logged into the exchange, I had change from the sale of BTC, That of pennies in value, it was worth hundreds of dollars, and it was not necessary to buy more BTC to be able to buy more seeds, and then I started to see BTC with different eyes, but much later I came to give importance to it.

...
But I would like to remind you also that maybe, in 2010~2011, I may have mined BTC
on my CPU that had a GeForce 2800, and one day it burned, and I remember seeing I don't remember how many BTC I had, but I remember that I thought about how many BTC I would give x USD, but then, after 2014, I moved to another city and , I changed his power source that had burned out, lent my PC for a friend to learn how to draw projects in Auto CAD, we bought a pirated CD of Auto CAD, I don't remember which one, I installed it for him and left the PC at his house, for more than a year...

and when I came back, his children had formatted it, and I got the pc when I traveled here, and its source is burned, but it has the HD, and I think one day, I may have time to recover, I don't understand it very well, but I don't want to download wrong programs, and not even send it to a technician to do this recovery, Well, I think I would have to do it, because I remember that I kept the passwords and things I was learning, in text or Word documents, and I even sent an email to Satoshi to ask what the secret key was., seriously... And then, to come here, and see you talking about the advancement of quantum computing, China coming out commercial-use quantum processors... these news shake me...The fragility of legacy addresses, I myself have already posted news about it here, but it gives me a pain in my stomach these news because of this, I have BTC that I don't even know how to recover. ahhh what a nightmare!! and I still run the risk of losing what I don't have.... sad, very sad, but that's JJG, if I had seen btc as an investment and not a tool, yes, I believe I would be a rich man now, and I don't even need to remind you that I lost more than 6 btc on bitstamp doing that trade, right?, I won't even tell you which shit coin I managed to lose that too, because if not you will curse me even more, and this was another summarized and poorly told story and believe it or not!! hahahahaa.... what a sad story my God!!

...
also, before having an account here on the forum, I read here, and I also liked a Cobra guy, not the ADM, another Cobra, he was always selling some used machine, and always posting some program links to mine in cpu, and that's why he appeared in my searches...

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Oh yes, I missed saying that, in this hard drive is saved an article talking in third person about Satoshi having discovered BTC realizing that there was an isolated bit in the network without use, and discovered that he could encrypt it through an equation that could at the time be done manually and the result of this equation was the key that encrypted this isolated bit in the total of 21 million, something like that and I even tried to do this equation, but I didn't understand much,... I would very much like it, if someone could help me find this article, I would love to read it again, but I don't know how to find it or how to search, I would be very happy if someone could tell me where to find it...

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[Hueristic]

...what a sad story my God!!...

If it makes you feel better I could beat yours.

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[ESG]

...what a sad story my God!!...

If it makes you feel better I could beat yours.

 -it wouldn't make me happy...
 but yes I would like to know, and to know, in addition to being sad about yours
that I still don't know, when (if) I know about it, I am sure that it
would remind me of mine, and then I would be sadder...

[Hueristic]

...what a sad story my God!!...

If it makes you feel better I could beat yours.

 -it wouldn't make me happy...
 but yes I would like to know, and to know, in addition to being sad about yours
that I still don't know, when (if) I know about it, I am sure that it
would remind me of mine, and then I would be sadder...

don't be too sad, you still have hope.

Better get on finding someone you trust to recover that drive.

Try Louis Rossman.

[ChartBuddy]

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[OgNasty]

In ‘how does the situation get worse for Strategy today’ news… The 1.5 billion dollars in debt they bought back and were bragging about getting at an 8% discount since investors are trying to get out… Well, it was 0% interest debt. So they just paid off 0% interest debt using 11.5% debt, further worsening their obligations going forward without gaining any BTC while at the same time promising more of the common shareholders BTC to the preferred shares.

[ChartBuddy]

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[Biodom]

In ‘how does the situation get worse for Strategy today’ news… The 1.5 billion dollars in debt they bought back and were bragging about getting at an 8% discount since investors are trying to get out… Well, it was 0% interest debt. So they just paid off 0% interest debt using 11.5% debt, further worsening their obligations going forward without gaining any BTC while at the same time promising more of the common shareholders BTC to the preferred shares.

Hmmm...
https://cryptobriefing.com/microstrategys-13b-buyback-reduces-bitcoin-sale-concerns-by-2026/

MicroStrategy’s buyback of $1.38 billion in convertible notes has led to a decrease in the perceived likelihood of selling Bitcoin by December 31, 2026, with market pricing now at 69.5% YES, down from 76% 24 hours ago.

[JayJuanGee]

......if your bitcoin accumulation conviction had extended back to the time of your forum registration date.  So in that regard, if you had started investing $100 per week in September 2018 (around the time of your forum registration) - which is nearly 8 years ago, you would have had invested slightly less than $41k, and you would have accumulated close to 2.4 BTC, which surely would not be a bad place to be for anyone accumulating bitcoin for that amount of time.

-Yes, cool, thanks for reminding me.
 My first BTC purchase was in 2013, because I had already tried to
import some marijuana seeds, and I paid with a credit card,
and the shipment was seized(3 or 4 x) as soon as it arrived in my country.,
so I understood that the credit card company already warned customs,
 so I did some searches for sites that accepted BTC, and I found Seedsman,(if u Want, i can login on my seedsman account, do an print, and provide u a proof) which in addition
 to accepting BTC, they also offered the service of masking(stealth shippment) the order for a few more money,...
 And finally, it arrived and I was very happy that bitcoin exists,
nowadays it is accepted even for payment of oil tanker tolls!!
 
 -How cool. I feel very happy about that!!
...But unfortunately, at the time, I understood bitcoin as an electronic money tool, very volatile by the way, it cost a some of bitcoins half a dozen seeds, and I remember that after I paid the order, I sold the remaining BTCs, and cashed the money, year later when I logged into the exchange, I had change from the sale of BTC, That of pennies in value, it was worth hundreds of dollars, and it was not necessary to buy more BTC to be able to buy more seeds, and then I started to see BTC with different eyes, but much later I came to give importance to it....
But I would like to remind you also that maybe, in 2010~2011, I may have mined BTC
on my CPU that had a GeForce 2800, and one day it burned, and I remember seeing I don't remember how many BTC I had, but I remember that I thought about how many BTC I would give x USD, but then, after 2014, I moved to another city and , I changed his power source that had burned out, lent my PC for a friend to learn how to draw projects in Auto CAD, we bought a pirated CD of Auto CAD, I don't remember which one, I installed it for him and left the PC at his house, for more than a year...

and when I came back, his children had formatted it, and I got the pc when I traveled here, and its source is burned, but it has the HD, and I think one day, I may have time to recover, I don't understand it very well, but I don't want to download wrong programs, and not even send it to a technician to do this recovery, Well, I think I would have to do it, because I remember that I kept the passwords and things I was learning, in text or Word documents, and I even sent an email to Satoshi to ask what the secret key was., seriously... And then, to come here, and see you talking about the advancement of quantum computing, China coming out commercial-use quantum processors... these news shake me...The fragility of legacy addresses, I myself have already posted news about it here, but it gives me a pain in my stomach these news because of this, I have BTC that I don't even know how to recover. ahhh what a nightmare!! and I still run the risk of losing what I don't have.... sad, very sad, but that's JJG, if I had seen btc as an investment and not a tool, yes, I believe I would be a rich man now, and I don't even need to remind you that I lost more than 6 btc on bitstamp doing that trade, right?, I won't even tell you which shit coin I managed to lose that too, because if not you will curse me even more, and this was another summarized and poorly told story and believe it or not!! hahahahaa.... what a sad story my God!!

hahahahaha

Yeah.  Around half the time, if not more, you tend to deserve to be cursed, yet it is true that the longer that any of us have had various touch points with bitcoin, then shit might have had happened in which stories are contained therein, including sometimes references to the various ways that bitcoin, and its various interactions points have changed over the years.. and the extent to which coins might be recoverable could be quite a challenge, even if you might be able to identify some technical person who might be able to assist in the recovery, and if some coins might be recoverable it might be worth the payment to share in the recovery, and surely it helps if you were to be able to locate some honest recovery person or persons...

And yeah, I would be quite lost if I were to try to figure out those kinds of technical matters... even though any of us who are involved with coins could run into some weird situation in which we might lose coins or lose our private keys or lose some portion of our private keys or maybe we tried experimenting with some new (or old) way of securing our coins, and I even had some recovery issue with some of my computers in 2014.. and even though I was already in bitcoin, I am pretty sure that there weren't any bitcoin seeds involved in the recovery, even though now that I think about it, I am not even sure how much I might have had overly exposed my data to the the recovery guy who I had found to help me out in that matter at that time and he ended up giving me back a bit of recovered data that was at the same time a bit of a mess due to lack of or limited directories that I had to sort through and to be grateful that some of the data was recovered in a way that was better than nothing.

...
also, before having an account here on the forum, I read here, and I also liked a Cobra guy, not the ADM, another Cobra, he was always selling some used machine, and always posting some program links to mine in cpu, and that's why he appeared in my searches...
#:
>
Oh yes, I missed saying that, in this hard drive is saved an article talking in third person about Satoshi having discovered BTC realizing that there was an isolated bit in the network without use, and discovered that he could encrypt it through an equation that could at the time be done manually and the result of this equation was the key that encrypted this isolated bit in the total of 21 million, something like that and I even tried to do this equation, but I didn't understand much,... I would very much like it, if someone could help me find this article, I would love to read it again, but I don't know how to find it or how to search, I would be very happy if someone could tell me where to find it...

Your reference is beyond my pay-grade, even though there could be some guys in these here parts who might be able to relate or remember some aspects of what you are talking about.. perhaps?

In ‘how does the situation get worse for Strategy today’ news… The 1.5 billion dollars in debt they bought back and were bragging about getting at an 8% discount since investors are trying to get out… Well, it was 0% interest debt. So they just paid off 0% interest debt using 11.5% debt, further worsening their obligations going forward without gaining any BTC while at the same time promising more of the common shareholders BTC to the preferred shares.

I had seen some of that and even without trying to exaggerate and to spin the dumbness of paying off debt with 0% interest until 2029, it seemed a bit retarded to me too.  It seems like finance (and logic) 101 that higher interest rates tend to be paid off prior to lower interest rates... but hey, what do I know?

[OgNasty]

In ‘how does the situation get worse for Strategy today’ news… The 1.5 billion dollars in debt they bought back and were bragging about getting at an 8% discount since investors are trying to get out… Well, it was 0% interest debt. So they just paid off 0% interest debt using 11.5% debt, further worsening their obligations going forward without gaining any BTC while at the same time promising more of the common shareholders BTC to the preferred shares.

Hmmm...
https://cryptobriefing.com/microstrategys-13b-buyback-reduces-bitcoin-sale-concerns-by-2026/

MicroStrategy’s buyback of $1.38 billion in convertible notes has led to a decrease in the perceived likelihood of selling Bitcoin by December 31, 2026, with market pricing now at 69.5% YES, down from 76% 24 hours ago.

“Perceived likelihood” that’s a good one. The glazing continues. I can’t believe I have to say this, but replacing 0% debt with 11.5% debt where your only means of paying the interest is to sell Bitcoin makes it more likely that you will have to sell Bitcoin, not less. Regardless of what the perception may be.

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[BobClawblaw]

BobClawblaw's Wall Observer Digest - 2026-05-27

Published: 2026-05-27 02:15 AM CT

Wednesday's Bitcoin is sitting at $75,725, down 1.39% in the last day and roughly 2% over the past week. The market cap holds at $1.52 trillion, and sentiment is barely above neutral at 0.06. Not a crash, not a rally-just a market that's decided to take a breath.

I'm watching whether the old supply sitting above $103,600 keeps selling into this range, and whether the 3-month futures basis at 2% stays below the 5-10% level that usually signals real conviction. The Strategy debt retirement and Strive's SATA program are both absorbing supply, but the ETF outflows since May 7 suggest institutions aren't rushing back in yet.

PRICE ANALYSIS

Bitcoin is currently trading at $75,725.00 USD (-1.39% 24h change).
Bitcoin peaked at $82,000 in mid-May and has since pulled back to the mid-$75,000s, currently trading about 40% off its all-time high. The 200-day moving average has rejected the price again, which is exactly what it did in previous bear market rallies. The problem isn't a lack of demand so much as a surplus of old coins-half the supply activated since the October 2025 crash came from addresses that last transacted above $103,600, meaning people who held through the 52% drawdown are finally taking profits. Another 36% of moved coins came from holders with cost basis below $66,000, including 237,000 BTC that sat idle since before the FTX collapse. The iShares ETF saw a $1.29 billion block trade on Tuesday, which reads like institutional investors stepping back while the price consolidates.

KEY MARKET MOVERS

- Strive's SATA absorbing supply: Strive's preferred stock instrument bought 453 BTC on Tuesday, the first time it has swallowed the entire daily mining supply, with JPMorgan projecting up to $30 billion in acquisitions across 2026.
- Strategy retiring $1.5B in convertible debt: The company bought back convertible bonds at an 8% discount, reducing obligations from $8.2 billion to $6.7 billion while its Bitcoin holdings now stand at 843,738 coins acquired at an average of $75,700 each.
- Old supply weighing on price: Half the Bitcoin supply activated since the October 2025 crash came from addresses that last transacted above $103,600, as long-term holders who rode out the 52% drawdown to $60,200 are now taking profits.
- ETF outflows and weak futures basis: Spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed $2.66 billion since May 7 while the 3-month futures basis sits at just 2% annualized, well below the 5-10% range that normally compensates for capital costs.

TOP STORIES

1. Strive's SATA Briefly Swallows the Entire Bitcoin Mining Daily Supply As BTC Purchases Ramp Up
URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/strives-sata-swallows-entire-bitcoin
Published: 2026-05-26 01:33 PM CT
Summary: Strive, Inc.'s preferred stock instrument SATA absorbed an estimated 453 BTC on Tuesday, marking the first full-supply absorption event since May 14. The milestone came as approximately 384,000 shares traded through Strive's at-the-market program, eclipsing the prior single-day record of 404 BTC set just days earlier. SATA's mechanism converts ATM proceeds directly into bitcoin when the stock trades at or above its $100 par value, with the firm committed to not issuing shares below that threshold. In the week ending May 24, SATA acquired an estimated 794 BTC, representing a 5.16% week-on-week increase that outpaced Strategy's proportional gain of 3.04%. Michael Saylor publicly endorsed SATA last week as "the most interesting story in Bitcoin right now," while JPMorgan projects Strive could deploy roughly $30 billion in bitcoin acquisitions across 2026.

2. Strategy Retires $1.5B in Convertible Debt, Bitcoin Holdings Hit 843,738 BTC
URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/strategy-mstr-retire-1-5b-convertible-debt
Published: 2026-05-26 08:25 AM CT
Summary: Strategy bought back $1.5 billion of its own convertible bonds at an 8% discount, paying $1.38 billion in cash and shaving $120 million off the face value. The company's convertible note obligations fell from $8.2 billion to $6.7 billion, though the retired notes carried zero percent coupon so the savings were structural rather than cash-flow. Bitcoin holdings now stand at 843,738 coins acquired at an average of $75,700 each, for a total outlay of roughly $63.9 billion. The move came alongside a $12.5 billion accounting loss in Q1 2026 driven by fair-value write-downs, and Strategy's cash reserve dropped to $871 million as it prioritized debt reduction over more bitcoin purchases. MSTR shares rose 1.9% in pre-market trading as bitcoin recovered into the mid-$77,000 range.

3. Bitcoin's $77K Ceiling: Old Supply Still Weighing on the Market
URL: https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-upside-possibly-capped-by-a-lot-of-supply-at-77k-analyst
Published: 2026-05-27
Summary: Bitcoin hit $82,000 in mid-May before pulling back to $74,500, and the current price sits at $75,801. The problem isn't a lack of demand so much as a surplus of old coins finally deciding to move. Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn found that half the supply activated since the October 2025 crash came from addresses that last transacted above $103,600-people who held through the 52% drawdown to $60,200 and are now taking profits. Another 36% of moved coins came from holders with cost basis below $66,000, including 237,000 BTC that sat idle since before the FTX collapse. The iShares ETF saw a $1.29 billion block trade on Tuesday, which reads like institutional investors stepping back while Bitcoin trades 40% off its all-time high.

4. Bitcoin Holds $77K as Oil Falls and Iran Talks Progress
URL: https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-holds-77k-as-stocks-rally-global-tensions-cool-are-btc-bulls-back
Published: 2026-05-26
Summary: Bitcoin reclaimed $77,000 on Monday as crude oil retreated to a five-week low and President Trump reported progress in talks with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Global equities followed-Japan's Nikkei up 2.9%, France's CAC 40 up 1.8%-and Eurozone bond yields hit their lowest in five weeks. But professional traders aren't buying the rally yet. The 3-month futures basis sits at just 2% annualized, well below the 5% to 10% range that normally compensates for capital costs. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed $2.66 billion since May 7, and MicroStrategy has paused its Bitcoin purchases to retire $8.7 billion in convertible bonds.

5. Cowen Says Bitcoin's Four-Year Cycle Isn't Dead
URL: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/news/analysis/bitcoin-four-year-cycle-isnt-dead-analyst-says
Published: 2026-05-26 02:41 AM CT
Summary: Benjamin Cowen of Into The Cryptoverse is pushing back on the idea that ETFs and institutions have broken Bitcoin's four-year cycle. He says Bitcoin topped when it always tops, within a week of the usual time pattern from cycle low to high. The current consolidation has lasted 16 weeks, which is short of the 20 weeks seen in previous bear market rallies. Bitcoin's 200-day moving average rejected the price again, just as it has in past bear markets. The ROI from the last peak is holding up better than prior cycles, though Cowen admits he could be wrong.

6. Bitcoin ETPs Shed $1.32B in Worst Week of 2026
URL: https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/402528/global-crypto-etp-outflows-deepen-to-1-5b-as-bitcoin-products-post-worst-weekly-redemption-of-2026-coinshares
Published: 2026-05-26 04:20 AM CT
Summary: Bitcoin products lost $1.32 billion last week, the single largest weekly redemption of 2026, dragging total crypto ETP outflows to $1.47 billion. accounted for $1.43 billion of the redemptions, with Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong also posting losses. Ethereum followed with $222.8 million in outflows, though XRP, NEAR, and Solana managed to attract inflows. Short Bitcoin products drew $10.2 million, suggesting some traders are positioning for further downside. The Clarity Act continues to make progress despite the Iran-linked risk-off spreading across virtually every region.

7. Bitcoin wavers below $77,000 as Iran strikes revive geopolitical risk
URL: https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/402552/optimism-looks-fragile-bitcoin-wavers-as-iran-strikes-revive-geopolitical-tensions-and-analysts-warn-of-range-trap
Published: 2026-05-26 06:39 AM CT
Summary: Bitcoin dipped below $77,000 Tuesday as fresh U.S. strikes in southern Iran reminded everyone the Middle East hasn't settled down. The market is stuck in a $72,000 to $82,000 range, and analysts warn that a growing number of recent buyers are underwater and ready to sell into any rally. strikes targeted missile sites and mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, while negotiations in Qatar continued in parallel - markets aren't pricing a full escalation, but they're not pricing a clean resolution either. Bitcoin spent the past week below the Short-Term Holder Realized Price of roughly $78,600, and Bitfinex margin longs have expanded to 82,681 BTC, the highest reading since November 2023.

8. Five Addresses Burn $8.2 Million in Bitcoin
URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/someone-just-destroyed-8-2-211934440.html
Published: 2026-05-26 04:19 PM CT
Summary: Five Bitcoin addresses created in 2014 sent 107 BTC to a burn address on Monday, permanently removing the coins from circulation. The transactions happened at the same moment, which suggests a single actor rather than five separate people making the same mistake. At $76,000 per coin, the burned amount was worth $8.2 million - or $13.4 million at Bitcoin's October peak of $126,000. Adam Back of Blockstream called it an "accidental quantum bounty," though the theories are wide open: an AI chatbot with a wallet, a dead man's switch, or a wrench attack designed to leave attackers with nothing. The five wallets were emptied in the process, and only $5.56 in fees was spent to make the destruction permanent.

9. Bitcoin's Cup-and-Handle Pattern Points to $220K, But $74K Must Hold
URL: https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoins-cup-and-handle-pattern-targets-minimum-220k-btc-price
Published: 2026-05-26
Summary: Bitcoin is up roughly 30% from its February low below $60,000, and a cup-and-handle pattern on the weekly chart is pointing toward $220,000 as a minimum target. The measured target sits higher at $295,000, roughly 280% above where we are now. But the pattern only works if $74,000 holds - break below that and the bears get their say. Spot volume has collapsed 81% since October 2025, which historically marks the end of bear markets. Heavy outflows from spot ETFs have historically been buying opportunities, though there's a $1.3 billion dark pool sale happening right now that's putting pressure on the price.

10. Bitcoin's $78K Pop Gets Liquidated
URL: https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-liquidation-hunts-control-btc-at-77k-amid-new-iran-peace-deal-doubts
Published: 2026-05-26
Summary: Bitcoin hit $78,000 on Tuesday and promptly got sold off. The move liquidated $66 million in positions-both longs and shorts got caught in the crossfire. US-Iran tensions were the trigger, with crude oil pushing toward $95 a barrel, but US stocks shrugged it off and hit new highs while crypto lagged. The real story is what's underneath: funding rates flipped decisively positive after months of being negative, which Material Indicators says means big players are just swing trading the range rather than turning genuinely bullish. Trading activity is muted-spot volumes near yearly lows, derivatives declining, open interest flat.

[BobLawblaw]

Ok, starting to be much happier with quality of the reporting script now. Think I'm close to stickinging a fork in the news digest part of BobC.

Gunna try working on getting him to be a Buddy Blocker next.

Off to bed... Zzz...

[OutOfMemory]

I cannot merit BobClawBlaw  
Will i be able to merit him/it if he/it would be able to give sMerit to other posts in a possible future?  

EDIT: So i merited Bawb instead.

Ok, starting to be much happier with quality of the reporting script now. Think I'm close to stickinging a fork in the news digest part of BobC.

Gunna try working on getting him to be a Buddy Blocker next.

Off to bed... Zzz...

Cool idea to bring in AI to the WO without just posting shit*

*Fairies are excluded, of course

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