Will BTC hold at 80,000? The playbook behind this is far more complicated than you think!

Family, has the recent market left everyone feeling confused? Inflation is staying hot and refuses to cool down, CPI is coming in above expectations, PPI is off the charts—everyone’s saying that by 2026, the U.S. Federal Reserve will be hard-pressed to cut rates. The rate-cut dream is basically shattered. Logically, the crypto price should crash—but instead, Bitcoin drove a spike to over 79,000 and then quickly pulled back to above 81,000.

So who’s really on the other side of the trade, picking up the sell pressure?

Quick trivia: Recently, more than $14 million worth of Bitcoin short positions have been liquidated, setting the largest liquidation scale this year so far. A lot of veteran “old traders” see macro data and automatically short—only to get precisely targeted by the bulls. Arthur Hayes even keeps calling for a return to 126,000. The broader environment is indeed not friendly, but the big players are using the negative news to wash out high-leverage positions and then—turn around and push it higher. This kind of playbook is probably something we’re all pretty familiar with.

At the moment, the real battle isn’t whether “the bull market is still coming,” but “where the liquidity is going to come from”—delaying rate cuts doesn’t mean liquidity is drying up. AI infrastructure spending and bank regulatory easing driven by the situation in the Middle East are quietly releasing funds. How do you read this market? Share your thoughts in the comments! #Gate广场五月交易分享 #美国4月CPI上涨3.8% $BTC