
Bitcoin tops $80,000 as Treasury weighs $950 billion cash pile for bond buybacks
Bessent’s escalating bond-market response is feeding demand for scarce assets after the first buyback announcement failed to hold yields down.
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People shown recent Bitcoin gains became more bullish and were 23% more likely to own crypto later.

Open interest fell 2.65% and funding stayed near baseline, pointing to leverage clearing rather than longs rebuilding.

The Aug. 23 blocks used practice pECX while final software, replay rules and exchange handling remain unresolved.

The US funds pulled in $2.6 billion as Bitcoin surged toward $80,000 and Washington delivered a string of market-moving catalysts.

The 32.x warning and 33.x removal sequence remains a proposal as maintainers test whether sparse fallback routes add resilience.

The preliminary S-1 compares $30,000,005 from new investors with $45,000 from existing holders and leaves buyers immediately diluted.



