06/10/2026
Days after a Fed hike and the CLARITY Act's defeat, Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000 and touched $84,000. Jason Calacanis called it boring and a dead-cat bounce; Michael Saylor answered with a $1.6T scoreboard and Cathie Wood joined the defence.Bitcoin was declared 'boring' and 'a dead-cat bounce' — and promptly ran to $84,000.Bitcoin was declared "boring" and "a dead-cat bounce" — and promptly ran to $84,000. Days after the Fed's first rate hike since 2023 and the CLARITY Act's defeat in the Senate, Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000 and pushed on to touch $84,000, turning a public spat between investor Jason Calacanis and Bitcoin's most prominent defenders into the week's loudest market argument.
The rally
Bitcoin had absorbed the September 17 rate hike at around $76,000, then broke higher, breaching $80,000 last week before touching $84,000. The move came with no policy catalyst to credit — if anything the fortnight's news, from a hawkish Fed to a failed market-structure bill, argued the other way.
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