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Liam 'Akiba' Wright

Articles by Liam 'Akiba' Wright

Another shady Polymarket account turned $30k into $400k moments before the US captured Maduro

CryptoJanuary 6, 2026

It started, like these Polymarket �insider trading� stories usually do, with a screenshot and a smell test. A brand-new Polymarket account rolled in, threw roughly $30,000 at a long-shot outcome tie�...

Bitcoin to crash at US market open? Price spike makes two new CME gaps and closing one carries a punishing cost

CryptoJanuary 6, 2026

Prior to the US market opening this week, Bitcoin is trading around the low $90,000s again after the unprecedented weekend macro activity. You can feel the familiar shift in the room: less celebratio�...

Oil prices just did the unthinkable after the Venezuela raid, and it hands Bitcoin a rare advantage

CryptoJanuary 6, 2026

When the futures market opened Monday, the screens told a story that felt backward. The U.S. had just captured Venezuelas president, Nicol�s Maduro, in a weekend operation that jolted geopolitics an�...

Why �good news� hasn�t been moving Bitcoin recently: Macro without the boom

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

Bitcoin traded in the $80,000s on Dec. 31 just as U.S. inflation cooled and investors priced Federal Reserve rate cuts. The lack of follow-through has left traders leaning less on macro headlines an�...

Tether just bought 8,888 Bitcoin, exposing a mechanical profit engine turning T-Bills into automatic crypto demand

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

Tether bought 8,888 Bitcoin in Q4 2025, lifting its holdings above 96,000 BTC, according to a post by CEO Paolo Ardoino. The purchase extends a strategy Tether has tied to operating results: allocat�...

The Fed just leaked a bullish liquidity signal that suggests Bitcoin can front-run a 2026 recovery

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

On the last day of 2025, while most traders were half watching fireworks and half pretending they were not checking charts, the quietest corner of the financial system started making a lot of noise. �...

Bitcoin ETFs failed a critical holiday stress test as $1.29 billion vanished through �tactical� positioning

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted about $1.29 billion in net outflows over the 12 sessions from Dec. 15 through Dec. 31. The quiet holiday stretch became one of the cleaner stress tests yet for how stic�...

Shock $74B emergency bank loan on NYE just revived the dark �COVID cover-up� secret bailout theory

CryptoJanuary 2, 2026

On the last trading days of the year, the kind of chart that almost nobody outside finance ever looks at started yelling again. Banks piled into the Feds Standing Repo Facility, borrowing a record $�...

Bitcoin long-term holders just stopped selling, but a broken chart signal hides the truth

CryptoJanuary 1, 2026

There is a particular kind of Bitcoin holder who only shows up when the noise gets loud. They are the people who watched 2021 melt into 2022, who kept their keys anyway, who learned to live with the�...

Banks just demanded $26 billion in emergency cash but Bitcoin traders are missing a critical warning signal

CryptoJanuary 1, 2026

It started the way these things often do: a screenshot, a red circle, a big number, and a timeline that makes your stomach do a tiny flip. On Dec. 29, the Federal Reserves overnight repo line item j�...