Today’s BTC USD price prediction has it sitting at $78.800, down nearly -2% over the past 24 hours, still digesting a sharp knock at the $80,000 ceiling earlier this week. Now analysts are weighing up whether Bitcoin is likely to take a second crack at $80,000 this week.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes published an essay on August 25, arguing this Bitcoin bull market is being fueled not by a Fed rate cut or regulatory shift, but by the Treasury’s decision to expand buybacks of its own longer-dated bonds.
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— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) August 25, 2026
On August 19, the Treasury confirmed it would at least double the ceiling on certain long-end liquidity-support buybacks, lifting the per-operation cap from $2Bn to $4Bn between September 9 and November 4.
Hayes compares this to Janet Yellen’s late-2023 playbook, which he says pulled roughly $2.4 trillion out of the Fed’s Reverse Repo Program and into risk assets, Bitcoin included.
BTC USD Price Prediction: Can Bitcoin Hit $80,000 This Week?
BTC trades at $78,800, down -1.9% on the day, after oscillating between roughly $77,980 and $79,239 over the last 24 hours. The $80,000 level remains the line in the sand, with it flagged as “psychologically important,” and price has now tested it without a clean close above.
Below, technical analysis points to support in the $72,500–$75,000 zone, with major support near $69,500, though price has since climbed well clear of that range. Resistance clusters around $79,000–$80,000 on the same model, levels BTC has already cleared on its run toward $80K.
Bull case: a decisive close above $80,000 confirms the Treasury-liquidity thesis and opens room toward $84,000+.
Base case: continued chopping between $77,500 and $80,400 as traders await September buyback data.
Bear case: rejection at $80K sends price back toward $74,000, the former resistance-turned-support flagged in FxPro’s wave count.
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Bitcoin Hyper Targets Early Mover Upside as Bitcoin Tests Key Levels
A 0.98% pop on an asset already near $79,000 confirms the trend but not the trade. Buying Bitcoin at this level for outsized returns is, mathematically, a hard sell; the market cap is simply too large for the kind of multiple that early-stage plays can offer. That’s the gap projects like Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) are built to fill.
Bitcoin Hyper is the first Bitcoin Layer 2 (a secondary network built to process transactions faster and more cheaply before settling back to Bitcoin’s base chain) with SVM integration, the Solana Virtual Machine, engineered to outperform Solana itself in speed.
It combines low-latency processing with a Decentralized Canonical Bridge for moving BTC in and out, aiming to bring programmable smart contracts to an ecosystem that has historically lacked them.
The token currently sits at $0.0136852, with $33,081,379.14 raised in presale and staking available at a high, undisclosed APY. For more on the mechanics, this breakdown of what Hyper is building is a useful primer.
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