BTC $80,596 (+2.42%) | August 28, 2026

Bitcoin gained $1,890 from yesterday's $78,706 close to $80,596, a 2.42% advance.Mostly noise with one structural note. Price moved inside its established weekly advance, ETF flows of $232 million are within normal range at +0.56 standard deviations above the 30-day average, and no institutional moves cleared a meaningful threshold. The Lightning Network security vulnerability is worth monitoring but does not change near-term risk.

Bitcoin climbed 2.42% to $80,596, extending a 9.4% weekly gain and touching the top of its 30-day range at $80,591.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged their eighth consecutive day of net inflows, with the streak totaling $2.8 billion, tracking toward August's strongest inflow month since October 2025.
RSI reached 82.47, the most overbought reading in the current advance, with the largest on-chain supply wall sitting directly at the $80,000 to $83,000 zone.
Core Lightning confirmed multiple vulnerabilities flagged by AI-generated reports, issuing an emergency update; developers are withholding exploit details for two weeks while patches propagate to node operators.
Hashrate held near 897 EH/s with fees at 4 sat/vB, indicating a healthy and uncongested network that continues to set security records regardless of price volatility.

Market Snapshot

Market Cap

$1.62T

24h Volume

$33.61B

Dominance

59.3%

Macro Context

How Bitcoin fits into the macro picture

Bitcoin gained 2.42% today as Nvidia's roughly $4 billion earnings beat lifted risk assets broadly, with the S&P 500 up 0.72% and the NASDAQ-100 up 1.43% on the day. The Jackson Hole symposium, which this year centers on payments and financial infrastructure rather than traditional monetary policy topics, is a meaningful context shift: the Fed is now formally convening around crypto's primary use case. Fed Chair Warsh is expected to hold a tough line on inflation while keeping rate hikes on hold at least through the November midterms, according to analyst commentary in the CoinDesk coverage. The DXY was nearly flat at -0.04% on the day, providing no headwind to Bitcoin's advance.

BTC's 90-day rolling correlation with the S&P 500 stands at 0.25, below the 0.3 threshold that has historically signaled a decoupling phase. Bitcoin outperformed the S&P 500 by 1.70% and the NASDAQ-100 by 0.99% on a 24-hour basis, consistent with the low-correlation regime the data describes.

BTC vs Everything

Asset	24h	YTD	BTC Edge
SPXS&P 500	+0.72%	+11.41%	-21.85%
QQQNASDAQ-100	+1.43%	+16.00%	-26.44%
XAUGold	-0.49%	-1.54%

Market Snapshot

Macro Context

BTC vs Everything

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