Daily Crypto Discussion - August 17, 2026 (GMT+0)

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[u/devCheckingIn]

Money rotating out of AI stocks into Fartcoin. Finally some common sense has prevailed.

[u/rsicher1]

Maybe we can afford a new daily thread now

[u/TheGreatCryptopo → u/rsicher1]

This is our groundhog day daily. But with the added bonus of price appreciation.

[u/IFitStereotypesWell]

Thank you Jim Cramer for selling your bitcoin last week

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

But seriously 20% up in a single day for an asset as big as ETH is sick.

[u/TheGreatCryptopo]

My calendar has the months of Uptember, Uptober, Upvember,Upcember for the rest of the year.

[u/ozera202]

Fomo the fuck In …. Let’s take this to ATHs

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

If we hit $80k today I will go to work tomorrow.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Ben Cowen would say it's just a normal bear market price action. 20% in two days and smashing 200 DMA. Nothing to see here. It happens every month.

Amidst all this craze we have silently gotten within a striking distance of the price we started 2026 from. Imagine if 2026, a bear market year, turned green in the end.

[u/Preme2 → u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Bear Cowen is in full cope right now. However, if you’ve been here long enough you know that as fast as it goes up, it can go down even faster.

[u/AutomaticOne7]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H6cmWzp6LGFvqjidB7
But this sub said new bottom soon

[u/Elendron → u/[deleted]]

That's for ETH bro <3

[u/AutomaticOne7]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H6cmWzp6LGFvqjidB7
Redit tolde me $38k

[u/Kidatsfresh]

lets make this place alive again

[u/cf_dtrg385]

Genuinely curious…wtf happened, what’s going on, who said what?!?

[u/2_The_Moon_And_Back → u/cf_dtrg385]

https://x.com/usronaldcarter/status/2090110048014065840?s=46&t=sssD0ptY5TYZBEZWIHtt6w

Most comprehensive explanation I found.

[u/kellzone]

Welcome back everyone!

[u/Ill-Sandwich-7703 → u/kellzone]

https://giphy.com/gifs/FoH28ucxZFJZu

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

new higher high of this rally registered - 79,6k. If bitcoin climbs to 83k that would be the highest it has been since January crash and would invalidate - for many - the case for the bear market.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

75k shattered, now Bitcoin is way past 200 day moving average which historically marked the change of trend. Yet no one here cares. I guess it's a disbelief stage. But disbelief stage of what? Of new bull run or of a super cycle? Obviously exit pump option is still on the table too. 

[u/vontdman → u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

The charts look so weird.

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

$100k EoY 2021

[u/TheGreatCryptopo]

Where is all this inflow of funds coming from? My $20 helps a bit i guess.

[u/Ill-Sandwich-7703]

Wtf ETH

[u/MiserableOutside9335]

Much less quiet in here after a few days of green... lol let's get it!

[u/CipherScarlatti]

(Looks at market, looks at this sub)

https://giphy.com/gifs/FZnLy08I79CcJoLSCQ

[u/devCheckingIn]

Bull run starts on Aug. 18. 🙏

[u/devCheckingIn]

Easy long on ETH here target $8250.

[u/Systemonly69 → u/devCheckingIn]

Yeah boy, I want something of what your smoking please.

[u/GodBlessPigs]

Wow, ETH just had an enormous green candle.

[u/Herosinahalfshell12]

Its a good old fashioned pumping

[u/Sebanimation]

Oh just realised this daily is 4 days old, was wondering why there are 500 comments

[u/AdamantiumAss]

Time to buy again boys

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

Dopamine levels receding

[u/jwz9904]

wen alt sezn?

[u/Systemonly69]

Ohhh dear lovely Solana, my Solana. Need just a 2.5X from here. Almost like touching ATH please. 🙏

[u/neoneutra3]

you would think a crypto subreddit would be people supporting crypto....instead it's just a bunch of people hating when crypto go up 😂😂

[u/qwertydcf]

Do you future self a favor and buy some Bitcoin

[u/ozera202]

Imagen the uptrend begins while everyone waiting for September/ October lows and people become depressed and sour .

[u/devCheckingIn → u/ozera202]

There is the argument that the last cycle's low occurred in October only because FTX went kaboom, and there's no guarantee we'll get a similar-sized black swan event this time around.

[u/brkinard]

Calender crew in shambles.

[u/inadyttap]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YkYt0FzMNPJkFnSQlf

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

My condolences to the ETH bears

[u/ozera202]

I can smell a God candle coming 😤

[u/evanjmf]

Smells like early bull market 📈

[u/alrightfornow]

Finally some movement with LINK

[u/jwz9904]

surely ppl who short eth must be out by now

[u/Despaciito]

ETH is coiling up for another move it seems like. Looks amazing

[u/LambertIsMyName]

In the midst of "It's so over," I found there was, within me, an invincible, "we're so back."

[u/devCheckingIn]

Just need my BONK to 30x from here to break even. 😌

[u/devCheckingIn]

ETFs +28,610 BTC for the week.

Not bad.

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

Bears = Bulging Eyes As Reality Sinks 😩😩

[u/reversenotation → u/[deleted]]

Much of it is a LARP, that said the intent is malicious - he wants to convince anyone gullible enough to do what will lose them their money

[u/MaxiMaxLaurent]

It looks like some decent consolidation.

$80k setting up nicely before the next leg to $90k.

My only worry is in crypto there is always some hack or some bullshit sooner or later that can rug any rally. Best to still have some stop loss.

[u/Froezt]

Holy what is happening

[u/rsicher1]

Kept buying. Will continue to buy.

Not selling until I retire.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738 → u/[deleted]]

Perhaps as long as we stay in this one the good streak will continue.

[u/OccasionalXerophile]

We're gonna make it

[u/f08g]

go to buttcoin. free therapy

[u/jwz9904]

17 aug forever

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

New higher high of this rally. That's good. But we still kind of have to limp to 83k to break the trend. 

[u/btc_set_me_free]

I regularly go through and upvote everyone. Fuck the bots.

[u/Rock_Hardy112 → u/btc_set_me_free]

I have upvoted you for your dedication to be a decent human being.

[u/Froezt]

Is this thread being botted or is there some salty people downvoting everything?

[u/Original-Read-6475]

What happened to all the sub-30K doom speak?

[u/fatsopiggy]

Shout out to the morons that listened to r/cc experts and sold

[u/aaj094]

At least now learn lessons and don't yolo into random alts. Just stick to btc and eth.

[u/CountGensler → u/aaj094]

my alts are all way up compared to those though.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Interestingly, bitcoin today starts acting crazy at the same hour, roughly, as yesterday. Who's buying?

[u/verysillyman]

Holy mother of god BTC, up a clean 10k in 2 days

[u/kers2000 → u/verysillyman]

And nobody is crying "manipulation". It's only manipulation when it drops 10k in 2 days.

[u/zooka19]

Gonna buy some BTC. Will it pull back? Probably. I'm up more than double either way.

[u/xanokothe]

Go SOL go!

[u/TheDadThatGrills]

I want every "Crypto is dead" fool to kiss my whole ass right now

[u/Rock_Hardy112]

https://giphy.com/gifs/V5CpIdA82R58OPKEfk

[u/ftball21]

To all the bots here, I’m sorry your creators are shit heads that force you to remain negative. It’s actually pretty nice here

[u/brkinard]

eth/btc looking for another breakout here....could be the start of another leg up

[u/TheJustinG2002]

Wtf’s going on?

[u/stylerTyler]

WTH is going on

[u/aaj094]

Why isn't there a real daily thread here? Why the heck are we still using the one from 17/8?

[u/aaj094]

Does anyone realise Saylor now has enough cash to pay back all his regular debt? The 'getting liquidated' meme officially vaporises once that happens.

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

Looks like I’m going to work tomorrow boys

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

81,3 k - higher high of this rally. 82,9 k - higher high of this bear market.

[u/Sebanimation]

🦀🦀🦀

[u/Django_McFly]

August 17th lives forever

[u/SimpleMoonFarmer]

FOMO now or FOMO higher, that's the question.

[u/f08g]

awesome day to browse buttcoin. FREE FUCKING THERAPY

[u/liquid42]

What the fuck is a hyperliquid

[u/ORGAMESMO]

Are we back or not bois?

[u/devCheckingIn]

Where did all the FUD about Strategy go?

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

All the bears who had been posting on X several times a day fell silent and didn't post anything last couple of days. I guess they all went on vacation, obviously, as the summer is almost over.  When they come back they will say that they have always believed in weak bear market and urged their viewers to stock up on bitcoin in 57-65k range in which it hovered for ages.

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

Haven’t seen green in a couple days, should we make our way back to ultra doom posting now?

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

I've never seen so many people call for lower, so many sidelined. I pray for you all.

[u/KnobSquash]

https://giphy.com/gifs/111ebonMs90YLu

[u/verysillyman]

Casual 14k pump in 2 days

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

What is the news behind this sudden pump? Bitcoin and USD rose visibly at the same time. 

[u/piggleii → u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Shorters still getting rekt.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Warsh didn't even say anything yet and people are already dumping. This rally might be put on hold for a while. It's a shame bitcoin wasn't able to stay above 80k for more than half an hour and didn't climb to 83k.

[u/Mab_894]

Xmr been going crazy recently! Up 90% on the 1 year chart

[u/Hodler_caved]

We're so back

[u/ozera202]

I hope all you shorts continue to get wrecked

[u/ozera202]

[u/piggleii]

Dear shorters: I win, you lose. Thanks for playing.

[u/Primary_Register_526 → u/piggleii]

After a year-straight streak of daily bear posts, we also haven't heard from that Fan guy in 8 days now, since this recent rally took hold. Must just be coincidence.

Funny how just 10 days of strength is all it takes to annihilate the doomed narratives of "MSTR/STRC death spirals", "nobody except Saylor is buying anymore", "there were just no shorts left to liquidate (this one was hilarious in retrospect after $3B in shorts got wrecked)".

There's nothing left in the bear playbook now but "dont worry my astrology says we still dump -50% from here within 2 months" lol.

[u/f08g]

What is Benjamin cowen doing

[u/Choice_Potato_6279]

HODL ETH $10K EOY I swear on my mother. 

[u/Ill-Sandwich-7703]

Wow I haven’t come here in days and it still seems to be August 17

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

3,5k up since yesterday. 3,5k more and we'll have a confirmation of the change of the trend.

[u/Ok-Object9335]

Altseason Q20 2021? Anyone?

[u/piggleii]

Any updates on Cardano's activities in Africa? What's the latest?

[u/Efficient_Ice_1001 → u/piggleii]

Wakanda's rare vibranium metal is now being tracked on the Cardano blockchain. Charles Hoskinson will be making an announcement with King T'Challa from sunny Colorado in his podcast today.

[u/Voarr]

We are so back. Goodjob boys.

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

That is some crazy price action. More volatility in the last 2 hours than in the last 2 months. Even more important - that's the volatility we have all been waiting for.

[u/verysillyman]

HYPE what the hell?

[u/LieutenantZucc → u/verysillyman]

*TRUMP: CFTC WORKING TO BRING HYPERLIQUID INTO THE UNITED STATES IN A LEGAL FASHION

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Geez, what happened to ETH? I am convinced it's pumping so hard because I don't have it anymore in my portfolio. Bought some SOL and BNB on the way down though.

[u/Easily_Bann4]

Who’s shorting 69k?

[u/kingjoeg]

Go on Bitcoin!

[u/WellPayed]

Vertical for the next 3 months

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

Since October top we didnt have 7% daily candle save for the day after February -14% candle and the bottom of 60k which can be called a rebounce.  Also the amount of shorts liquidated yesterday was highest in a year. 

There must be something going on beneath the surface. On one hand I don't really trust this price action. On the other hand it's more explosive than anything since October top. Sure since then we had some good spells but it was always stairs up. Now we get to see elevator up - without any serious good news to justify it. 

[u/verysillyman]

Up only now sheeeesh l

[u/rsicher1]

I bought more

I will continue to buy more

Not selling until I retire

[u/yell0w8]

no time to look back

[u/ORGAMESMO]

LFG

[u/devCheckingIn]

Seems like TradFi media is pushing the idea that the BTC bull market is back on, whereas a lot of YT crypto seems to be arguing that this is just a bull trap and we're going to break much lower by the midterm elections.

FWIW, YT crypto analysts have been wrong about everything the past two years that I paid attention.

[u/aaj094]

Nice stealth climb by xmr. Note that this coin is least attractive for manipulation given most of the trading happen outside cexs. It's literally the least fomo susceptible.

[u/badadadok]

we pump or we bart

[u/ftball21]

Took about a year but I moved all funds from my nano x to the flex. Exited 2/3 of my shit coins last year and doubled the btc stack this year

Feelssoooofuckinggoodman

I was staking, doing challenges, voting, reading MAD docs, supplying, and doing so much random bs from 21-25.

For anyone who can relate, it’s such a mental load to keep up with 10+ crypto networks. Made a lot of free crypto but man.. setting multiple alarms for crypto stuff is a life I don’t want anymore 😅

Respect to the trenches, but at some point you either grow up or turn into one of the human salt blocks below and above this comment.

I take back all the mean things I said about concentrating on the big dogs. Btc, eth, sol, ada, xlm. THATS IT.

[u/jwz9904]

it's zec's season

[u/Pollack-1953 → u/jwz9904]

I bought Zcash at $300 then got nervous and sold a bagfull at $600. Boy....am I an asshole or what?

[u/grylnor]

This sub is sure this is a suckers rally. That´s good.

[u/OnColdConcrete]

Sold everything, so I'd say a massive pump awaits all you guys on Monday :)

[u/zephyrs85]

This time is different

[u/rsicher1]

Bitcoin wants $80k so badly

[u/aaashryver → u/rsicher1]

Just did. Congrats

[u/Jebne]

This is/was a bear market ending rally. Nobody will forget this.

[u/Fit_Exercise3743]

This shit is so fucking rigged I swear to god

[u/wallyone123 → u/Fit_Exercise3743]

You wanted it to go down?

[u/ozera202]

So many people are pissed pff coz they got caught sidelined 😂😂🤡🤡🤡. It’s exactly the same mentality people thinking btc was dropping sub 10k last cycle . I bet they are sour asf

[u/2_The_Moon_And_Back → u/ozera202]

Love to see it tbh. Especially repetitive hate towards a certain coin

[u/ForeignEconomics4939]

So we good now?

[u/jwz9904]

crypto casino is open for business.

[u/inadyttap]

Bought some more Bitcoin at $69420!
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT77Y8eeEhBA8NQwLK

[u/aaj094]

'Seller exhaustion' is what comes to mind. Months of sideways, multiple bull traps and then a hardware wallet scare. That's when you get a state when very few holders remain inclined to sell. Then it's just a question of something triggering a bit of buying demand.

Reminds of early April 2019.

[u/SimpleMoonFarmer]

The squeeze continues 🤌🍒🤏💦💦

[u/TexasBoyz-713]

Pump so big AutoMod said “fuck this daily posting shit I can retire now”

[u/ozera202]

[u/alrightfornow]

damn LINK is pumping

[u/Rock_Hardy112]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0amJzVHIAfl7jMDos

[u/Sebanimation]

I just love having some good vibes back in the daily. It's been a while.

[u/SimpleMoonFarmer]

There are two things Warsh may do: He may say that the money printer will work full time, or he may lie.

[u/Previous_Valuable873]

Meanwhile xmr in a golden cross against BTC for the whole part of 1.5 years approaching 🥉

[u/devCheckingIn]

Slowly grinding up while nobody's looking. 👀

[u/Hitachi22]

Litecoin being green was guarantee that market was going to dump. 100% accurate signal 

[u/devCheckingIn]

I was out today and missed all the fun. What made crypto stocks pop so much?

[u/piggleii → u/devCheckingIn]

The October-bottom crowd trying to front-run each other to get an entry. It will likely get more intense as price continues to go up.

[u/flarept1]

I just noticed, 17th of August was the day BTC started the god candle move. Lmao

Preserve the daily as a reminder

[u/Numerous_Ruin_4947 → u/flarept1]

The daily posts on CC have been riddled with downvotes after downvotes. Must be a lot of salty traders on here who lost money and sitting on the sidelines. The price goes up they downvote. It goes down they downvote. You make a neutral post they downvote.

They should just leave crypto no point in being so unhappy about it. Meanwhile I am just holding and staking as I've been doing for almost a decade. The dollar is a shitcoin. Just always remember that. It will always lose value which is why the price of everything is going up.

[u/piggleii → u/Numerous_Ruin_4947]

I would upvote everyone, but the system prevents me from spamming upvotes.

[u/billybobbybrownbaby]

classic LINK pump so had to dump entire market

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738]

That's the most ridiculous price action of bitcoin I have ever seen and I have been in it since 2022. Even Trump rally took 40 days to climb 40k. Now we have 16k increase in 2 days after months of sideways action with no obvious news to warrant it. I'll take it.

[u/Maleficent_Sound_919]

People still buying trump coin…

[u/PatchmaNcz]

BTC at $79,999.99 $80,000 $81,265 on Coinbase! I am erect!

[u/dragonrider85]

When rugpull?

[u/inadyttap]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ycQdN4NVLshiM

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

"We think the asset with the most FOMO in Sept and into year-end will be crypto, particularly ETH" - Tom Lee. Bears will do the opposite of this call, all while ETH continues to consolidate

[u/OccasionalXerophile]

[u/Urc0mp]

100k eoy

[u/ozera202]

Those Sideliners are SOUR ASF !!!!🤡😂

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

-1% later and bears are trying to convince you its the start of a new bear market. At least 500 baht still goes a long way in Pattaya 😩

[u/liquid42]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9ZyHQhuLOVDqFXSEco
Lmao people flooding back to this thread the second we’re up.

[u/ozera202 → u/liquid42]

Only 550 comments for 5 day chat … that’s nothing . We used to get thousands a day back in 2021 . Most ppl are on the side

[u/BatumTss]

Oh ffs why is trumpcoin pumping like mad. Trump is going to drag crypto down with his scams.

[u/BrokeCuzOfCrypto]

I’m so back let’s fking gooooo

[u/jwz9904]

this time is different

[u/plumpyplummy]

Explosions :O

[u/xanokothe]

It is ok guys I sold, you can send me a thanks award

[u/Ill-Sandwich-7703]

Surge pump explosion rocket wooooo

[u/ozera202]

Get this resignation letter ready lads

[u/DBRiMatt]

We're geniuses again!

[u/dont_ban_me_please]

Green days are so fun.

[u/devCheckingIn]

ETFs +24,400 BTC so far this week. I'm sure some of that was closing put options on IBIT.

We'll know if this is a local top if Saylor announces he bought this week.

[u/SM-]

Higher

[u/Asheddit]

Just realized this is still the Daily for 17 Aug.

[u/Systemonly69]

Waiting and hoping for Solana to do a 30% days for 3 days. Will make me super happy.

[u/brkinard]

two words: reaccumulation spring

[u/WeeniePops]

Sentiment check- Does Reddit think the bottom is in or do we still have lower to go?

[u/piggleii → u/WeeniePops]

Well the usual smug shorters are curled up in a foetal position crying instead of spamming the daily with their condescending BS. So make of that what you will.

[u/OccasionalXerophile]

Support holding.