staypatient

Sunday. 8:47 AM.
Bitcoin is at $77,000. Portfolio is red for the week. Coffee is hot.
I opened my journal and started writing. And then I thought — why not share this. Because I think a lot of you are feeling exactly what I'm feeling right now. And maybe it helps to know someone else is sitting with the same thoughts.
Here's what I actually wrote.
May 25, 2026.
Rough week. The market pulled back hard. ETF outflows hit $2.26 billion over two weeks. Mark Cuban sold 80% of his Bitcoin and made headlines. Eight researchers left the Ethereum Foundation in a month. The SEC delayed the tokenized stock plan. Bond yields rose. Inflation stayed sticky.
And yet.
Bitcoin's RSI is 59. That's the sweet spot. Not overbought. Not oversold. Momentum building. The price is above all four major EMAs simultaneously — the 20, 50, 100, and 200. That configuration only holds during bull market conditions. The technicals don't lie the way the news does.
Solana held $83 for ten straight weeks today. I checked. Ten weeks of buyers at the same price. Ten different reasons for the support to break. Zero breaks. I've been in markets long enough to know what that means. The buyers there are not retail traders hoping for a bounce. They are institutional. Patient. They have a thesis.
125 wallets each holding over 1 million Chainlink tokens. That number grew 25% in the last year — while the price was falling. These wallets don't accumulate during downtrends by accident. Goldman Sachs uses Chainlink for oracle data. SWIFT is in pre-production with Chainlink CCIP. The US Department of Commerce uses Chainlink for official economic data on-chain. 125 wallets know this. The broader market doesn't seem to yet.
The US government just committed $2 billion to quantum computing infrastructure. Two billion dollars of public money going into the exact same advanced compute technology that Bittensor is decentralizing. When a government spends $2 billion on something — they're confirming the technology is real and the timeline is closer than most people think.
And May 29 is four days away.
$6 billion in Bitcoin options expire that day. CME switches to 24/7 crypto trading. These two things happening simultaneously is either a coincidence or the most interesting setup of the year. I don't think it's a coincidence.
Here's what I keep coming back to.
The weeks that feel the worst in a bull market are often the weeks closest to the turn. Not always. Not guaranteed. But often.
The people who sold Bitcoin at $30,000 during the China mining ban in 2021 felt exactly this. The people who sold at $16,000 after the exchange collapses in 2022 felt exactly this. The portfolio red. The news terrible. The smartest voices saying it's over.
And both times — it wasn't.
I'm not saying this is the same. Nobody knows the future. But I'm saying the pattern is familiar. And when I zoom out — past the weekly red candles and the headline fear — I see a market with RSI 59, Solana holding $83 for ten weeks, 125 whale wallets quietly accumulating Chainlink, and $6 billion in options expiring in four days.
That doesn't look like a dying market to me.
It looks like a market catching its breath.
Coffee's getting cold. Time to stop writing and start watching the charts.
That's what I wrote this morning.
Whatever you're feeling right now — the red portfolio, the uncertain news, the conflicting opinions — you're not alone in it.
Four days to May 29. Let's see what happens.
Stay patient. Stay informed. 🚀
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