Bitcoin Is Stuck… But This Could Change Everything

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]Bitcoin is still struggling with that $82,000 been waiting for months.

[00:00:08]It has been pretty annoying. But this week we could have something to talk about, something to chew on. The Clarity Act. This could shape how crypto, Bitcoin, whatever is shaped via regulation in the US, banks, and more. And if you're new around here, please do slap a like on the video, comment what your opinion is on the Clarity Act, and subscribe because it's quite hard to find people that like crypto these days. So, price analysis on the screen, hello. Bitcoin first. Well, Bitcoin's not doing a lot, and it's kind of stuck a little bit. And we will talk about it because we need to talk about it. I talked about it in my Patreon the other day that we are stuck.

[00:00:47]We're waiting to see what happens next, and it feels like that situation, even though we've had CPI, even though we've had other elements of good news, bad news, whatever, hasn't really been much volatility, and that has showcased in the analytics on YouTube, the volume on the exchanges, every everywhere pretty much, which is annoying. But my biggest concern is we're going to flop off this ledge and go a bit lower because I have PTSD of what's happened previously.

[00:01:13]But that's me, okay? I know, bearish, but we do need some good news. But let's talk about this.

[00:01:19]The Clarity Act.

[00:01:20]309-page draft that has been released.

[00:01:25]And it is, well, the draft on the 12th of May, May the 12th if I'm in American.

[00:01:30]But it's full-on getting released essentially on Thursday.

[00:01:35]Which will be interesting to see what genuinely happens there. Basically, it's a massive regulatory framework essentially. Nothing too crazy, but it's going to kind of govern what's going to happen with how, as I say, institutional money, banks, stable currencies, it's all looked after in that sense. The main point here is if it is going to work, it kind of stops the "Ooh" from institutions to go, "I'm not touching that. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's a pyramid scheme." You You get the idea.

[00:02:06]So, it's kind of that validation. And I know like for myself, I'm quite old school. I've been around for like over 10 years now in terms of crypto.

[00:02:15]I don't really want this situation to become a part of the world of crypto. I I was always pro-decentralization.

[00:02:21]But, you do need to understand that Bitcoin is a different layer. Which could get interest. Long as it's not manipulated to [ __ ] we might be all right. But, you're probably wondering as well, why does it matter? Why does it really matter for the market? Cuz I do think, I've kind of alluded to it, even when we talk about altcoins or payment layers, whatever, blockchains.

[00:02:44]Banks and legacy finance institutions, whatever, will want clear rule sets.

[00:02:50]Exchanges may become safer to use, which is bloody hell what we want, really.

[00:02:55]Maybe not what this [ __ ] is on the screen, Ethereum, that keeps getting hacked every single week, but you get the idea. Custodians and, you know, stable currency kind of elements may become more mainstream as an alternative finance vehicle. Liquidity might become more sought after, better for how the world works, maybe. That might be a bit of a stretch. This doesn't mean though instant moon. It just means clarity, understanding, and hopefully improvements. Because still, in 2026, it can take a while to do money transfers across borders in certain worlds.

[00:03:31]That might change things. Question is, on the screen, obviously the total three, the altcoin market, does it change anything? Well, I don't really know. That's the downside to all of it.

[00:03:40]It might well just be Bitcoin leads and there's a couple of obvious ones that will run with it. XRP, maybe. Solana, maybe. I don't know. Ethereum, potentially. Cuz even though cryptocurrencies essentially have been doing what banks have wanted to do for years in terms of spending payments and custody, even building whatever assets, reserves, like a bank. It doesn't really, as I say, translate into the world of the mainstream. But also, you got to think of the bank or institutions. They do not want to be left behind.

[00:04:11]And if this world improves that world, we may get a slice of it, and that might be a really, really good opportunity. I know I'm clutching. But as I say, it doesn't mean instant moon. This is obviously the ETF inflows. It's been all right over the last couple of weeks, essentially. And even still now, it is quite a lot of money that have been plunked into the market. And as I say, it may well give a bit of a more of a green light to other things to invest.

[00:04:36]It might allow more and more ETFs and more and more choice and more and more whatever this that and the other.

[00:04:42]That could allow, as I say, more interest in the market with a legitimate scope instead of a hype speculative scope, if that makes sense. But overall, when we talk about the markets, I've Let's have a little look at my dashboard.

[00:04:56]The reality is here, it's only one part of the game. Yes, today we have some PPI data, and we have federal chair nomination votes, fair enough. We do have the big event tomorrow.

[00:05:08]The situation is we are still stuck in the world of resistance and not enough interest. When we talk about the market data, it's still showcasing very much neutral across the board. You know, overall, it's all neutral. Not a lot's really happening, risk on, risk off, pretty flat. In terms of the overall signals, yeah, open interest is starting to Yeah, it was improving, but not as much.

[00:05:33]There's still a bit of fear in the market because we have dropped a lot.

[00:05:37]So, yeah, we have to be somewhat careful. If you want access to this, by the way, you can just jump in the link below. There's a free trial as well if you're interested. But yeah, Yeah, current playbook, as you can see, it's [ __ ] [ __ ] So, we are waiting for clarity, and it feels like we've been waiting for this clarity for a hell of a long time. But, overall, we've still got a situation where stable currencies aren't really ramping up. There's not much money printing going on. There's not much interest in that sense.

[00:06:02]So, yeah, as I say, it's just a bit wishy-washy and a bit of a ballache, but yeah, overall sentiment not the best right now. It's a bit slow. But, as you can imagine, right, with the the world of obviously liquidations and stuff like that, that could change in a heartbeat. If, and I said this before in a couple of videos recently, what tends to happen in crypto, you get a lot of people that camp wee bets.

[00:06:25]Here, wait, let's just keep this down.

[00:06:27]If there's a lot of short orders just camping up and around those zones, right, what could happen here is it could be a massive event that could trigger all those liquidations and stop losses to go bang, and then that just squirts to the upside. Whether that sustains or not is another thing. For example, as well with Sui, randomly, it popped off like a rocket the other week based off some news as well.

[00:06:47]Low liquidity assets, which well, I won't say it's low liquidity, but I'm just saying to the point of it hasn't had much volume recently, and it could well just get a bit of excitement and away off you go. That could happen with a lot of things. It could spark a bit of interest. So, just be mindful of that.

[00:07:02]But, that doesn't mean go all in, ape in, we're back into the bull market. It could actually be a trap, and it could go lower, obviously, depending on what the information, the news, and all the bits and bobs that go with it. Could be very, very interesting. That's me done for today. I know it was all wasn't a lot really to talk about, but we we can't just guess and presume and whatnot. Let's just wait and see what happens, but just be ready for volatility. If there's good or bad news, it might be an open burger, let's be honest, but we'll see. We'll see how it goes. But, the trick is not to buy at resistance. That kind of I'm hoping is a given. Um some people like to and like to go, "Fuck it, let's go. It's crypto.

[00:07:34]We can do whatever you want." That doesn't always work, you know. Really, the entry was a lot lower um than obviously $81,000. But, hey ho, it is what it is. Anyways, not yet done so?

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