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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 10 seconds ago

  ONE SHARE OF STRATEGY $MSTR COSTS $137.26 AND CARRIES $174.59 OF BITCOIN: Strategy MSTR at $137.26 (premarket), -$0.14 / -0.10% from Thursday's $137.40 close. Hold that one loosely; almost nothing trades at four in the morning. Thursday was the real vote and it was violent: $123.19 to $137.40, +$14.21 / +11.53%, on 43.78M shares against a 23.23M 30-day average, about 188% of a normal day. Bitcoin rose about 2% that day. Two percent against eleven and a half. That gap is not magic and it is not a mystery. It is $22.2B of other people's claims sitting between this company's bitcoin and the person who owns its stock, and it works exactly as hard in the other direction. WHERE THE COINS ARE - Bitcoin, ticker BTC, at $79,821, +0.03% over the past 24 hours. Three hundredths of one percent. Back under $80,000 after trading above it earlier this week. - Ethereum, ticker ETH, the second-largest cryptocurrency, at $2,499, -0.98% over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin doing nothing for a full day is worth noticing, given what the last ten days looked like. WHAT ACTUALLY STARTED THIS Two real drivers, and the first one has nothing to do with crypto. On Wednesday, August 19, the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double the amount of long-dated government bonds it buys back from investors, from $2B to $4B per operation, across the 10-to-20-year and 20-to-30-year maturities, running September 9 to November 4. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the next day it could go past that $4B ceiling, and framed it as keeping trading orderly rather than forcing borrowing costs down. The everyday version: the government stepped in to buy its own debt. Some investors read that as the start of holding borrowing costs down by other means, and the reflex hedge against that is anything no government can make more of. Bitcoin rose more than 20% in three days from that week, and more than $3B of bets that the price would fall were force-closed on August 19 alone. When a bet against the price gets closed out, the exchange closes it by buying, which pushes the price up further. The second driver is fund buying. A spot ETF owns the real thing: it buys bitcoin, holds it, and splits the pile into shares that trade in an ordinary brokerage account, with no wallet and no password to lose. US spot bitcoin funds have now taken in new money for eight trading days running, $2.8B in total, the longest streak since April, and August has cleared $3B to become the strongest month of 2026. Ether's funds drew $697M in the week of August 17-21, their best week since early October 2025. Then the counterweight, published Wednesday. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the personal consumption expenditures price index for July, the inflation gauge the Federal Reserve watches most closely because it tracks what people actually buy. It ran 3.7% above a year earlier, unchanged from June and hotter than the 3.6% economists expected; month to month +0.2% against +0.1% expected. Crypto stalled on it, and the odds of the Fed leaving rates alone at its September 16 meeting rose from 60% to 63% in a day. Which is why tonight is flat. At 10:00am ET today, Friday August 28, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh gives his first keynote as chair at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bitcoin pays no interest, so the more a savings account pays, the more it costs to hold a coin that pays nothing. Everything above is waiting on that. THE ARITHMETIC INSIDE STRATEGY Strategy is a Tysons Corner, Virginia company founded in 1989, with 1,539 employees and Phong Q. Le as chief executive. What it does now is borrow money, sell shares, and hold bitcoin with the proceeds. On August 24 it reported holding 840,447 bitcoin, roughly 4% of every bitcoin that exists, bought at an average price of $75,385. Multiply that out at tonight's price and the pile is worth about $67.09B. It cost about $63.36B. Years of buying, and the whole position is ahead by roughly $3.73B, about 5.9%. Bitcoin would have to fall to $75,385 for the average coin in that vault to be worth what was paid for it. Now set the pile against the company. Market cap, meaning one share's price multiplied by every share in existence, is about $52.79B across 384.23M shares. $52.79B of shares. $67.09B of bitcoin. The market is charging about 79 cents for a dollar of the coins in the box. That looks like a free lunch. It is not, because of what comes next. WHAT STANDS IN FRONT OF YOU Strategy did not buy that bitcoin with shareholders' money alone. It carries $6.7B of convertible notes, borrowed money the lender can swap for shares instead of taking repayment, and $15.5B of preferred stock at face value, a senior class of shares paid its dividend before the ordinary shareholder gets anything at all. $22.2B of claims, all of them in line ahead of you. Per share, at tonight's numbers: - Bitcoin behind one share: $174.59. - Claims standing ahead of that share: $57.78. - What is left: $116.81. - What the share costs: $137.26. So the 79 cents flips. Measured against the bitcoin that genuinely belongs to the shareholder, you are paying about $1.18 for a dollar of it. Both numbers are true. They are the same company counted before and after the queue. Two honest qualifications. The preferred does not all trade at face value, and the company has been buying it back below face, $136.4M for 1.43M of its STRC preferred shares in the week to August 23, which quietly shifts value from the queue to the shareholder. And the convertible notes may end as shares rather than cash, which clears the debt by creating more owners. WHY THE AMPLIFIER IS NOT A FIXED NUMBER $67.09B of bitcoin resting on the $44.89B that belongs to shareholders is about 1.5 to 1. Arithmetic alone says a 1% move in bitcoin should be worth roughly 1.5% here. Check that against three real stretches, using the bitcoin fund below as the stand-in for the coin: - Thursday: fund +1.87%, Strategy +11.53%. Six times. - Since August 18, the day before the Treasury announcement: fund +23.74%, Strategy +48.51%. Twice. - From their June lows: fund +37.91%, Strategy +67.95%. Under twice. Over weeks the multiple settles near the arithmetic. Over a single day it is whatever the crowd feels like paying for the wrapper. Two separate things move this stock: the price of bitcoin, and the price of the box the bitcoin sits in. Only one of them is bitcoin. THE WEEK THAT DID NOT MAKE HEADLINES Between August 17 and 23, Strategy sold 18.26M of its own shares and raised $2B. $300M went to a restricted reserve, $136.4M to the preferred buyback above, and $1.59B into a new unrestricted pool the company calls USD Cash. Total dollar liquidity afterwards: $6.69B. None of it bought bitcoin. The company has not bought a coin since June. So the coin count stayed at 840,447 while the number of people splitting it rose by 18.26M shares against about 384M outstanding, roughly one extra owner for every twenty-one. The bitcoin behind each share shrank by about that same 4.8%, in a week when the price of bitcoin barely moved. Nothing was hidden and nothing was taken; it was filed. It is simply the opposite of what most buyers think they are getting. THREE WAYS TO WATCH THIS FROM A BROKERAGE ACCOUNT - iShares Bitcoin Trust IBIT at $45.22 (premarket), -$0.07 / -0.15% from Thursday's $45.29 close. It holds coins and does nothing else, about $61.7B of them, which makes the fund larger than the company above. It charges 0.25% a year, roughly 11 cents per share, and that fee is the entire difference between it and the coin. Thursday's +1.87% against bitcoin's roughly 2% is the fund doing precisely the job printed on it. It sits 37.0% under the $71.82 it reached on October 6, 2025 and 37.7% above the $32.84 it traded at on June 25. - Strategy, above. - Coinbase Global at $189.51 (premarket), -$1.21 / -0.64% from Thursday's $190.72 close. The largest US crypto exchange: customers buy and sell coins there and it takes a fee on each trade. New York, founded 2012, about 4,951 employees, Brian Armstrong is chief executive. It holds no bitcoin pile on your behalf. It owns the toll booth. Thursday: +$8.94 / +4.92% on 9.24M shares against a 9.60M average, an entirely ordinary day's participation. Worth about $50.33B, it sits 52.9% under the $402.16 it reached on October 10, 2025 and 36.2% above the $139.11 low it set on July 31. Three wrappers, three different things owned. Coins. Coins minus a queue. A business paid when other people trade coins. WHERE THESE SIT ON THE LEN5ES Strategy is on none of the six, and one miss is more fundamental than the rest. The Len5es read operating businesses: what a company earns, what it grows, what it hands to owners. Strategy's last year of profit is a loss, and its 1.48 times book value, roughly what would be left after selling everything and paying what is owed, is a claim on a pile of coins rather than on anything the business does. Quality-Value and Deep-Value and Special-Situations both want a fair price standing beside a durable business, and there is no earning power under this price to call durable or cheap; money earned from an activity, rather than from an asset it happens to hold, is the specific change. Growth and Hypergrowth want compounding you are not overpaying for, and the only thing compounding here is a coin price nobody at this company sets. Momentum is the closest and still misses on cause: 11.53% on 188% of normal volume is exactly that shape, but the event was bitcoin clearing $80,000, not anything Strategy announced, and the stock is 62.4% under its October 2025 high. Clearing that on heavy volume after news of its own is the change. Income watches cash genuinely reaching owners, and here it runs backwards: preferred holders get paid, the common shareholder was sold $2B of new stock last week, and nothing goes the other way. Coinbase is on none of the six either. Its last twelve months are a loss, so both value styles have no earnings to set a fair price against, and 3.67 times book value is not a discount on a company that has not made money over a year; a full cycle in which the quiet quarters still turn a profit would answer both halves at once. The growth styles need revenue that arrives as profit. Momentum needs an event of its own, and a 4.92% day on an entirely normal day's volume, borrowed from bitcoin, is not one. Income is settled on mechanics: no dividend. The fund is a different case, and not a failing one. Six ways of reading companies have nothing to grip on something that owns one asset and employs nobody. Crypto is volatile and speculative, and Thursday alone proves it without help: one coin up about 2% produced +1.87%, +4.92% and +11.53% depending only on which wrapper you happened to be holding. Nothing about that ordering is fixed and all of it runs backwards just as easily. 840,447 coins have not moved since June. Everything that happened to the people who own them this month was decided by other people, written down, and dated. The coins were the least eventful thing in the story. Not investment advice.

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  FatalPen (@GetTurtled) reported 4 minutes ago

  Coinbase listed TOSHI on January 23, 2025 — a full year after the tokens were sent. Three days later it hit its all-time high. That listing was supposed to be my exit. It's the event I'd been drawing toward for two years. Instead I watched my allocation hit about $237,000 on a block explorer. I checked it a day late and caught it at $214,377. That is the only thing I have ever been able to do with it. It is still sitting there. 105,205,314 TOSHI, at the same address it was sent to in January 2024, worth around $13,800 today. Thirty-one months. Two transfers in, nothing out. It's public and anyone can look at it. I have been paid nothing out of any of it. I went through my savings, then credit cards, then a loan, then DoorDash. I lost the house. I deliver for Amazon and DoorDash now.

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  FatalPen (@GetTurtled) reported 5 minutes ago

  I was paid $100 a drawing. That was never supposed to be the compensation. It was enough to keep the lights on while I drew. The actual pay was 105,000,000 TOSHI, my stake in the thing I was helping build. That's a normal arrangement in this industry and I went into it with my eyes open. You take less cash for a piece of the upside. It only works if the upside actually arrives. January 8, 2024 They sent it. 105,172,500 TOSHI, worth $108,113 that day. The transaction confirmed. They took an address out of my pinned Telegram messages and used that. It was a Coinbase deposit address, and Coinbase didn't support TOSHI at the time. Here's what happens when you do that, in case it ever happens to you: the tokens land on-chain and sit there permanently. The exchange doesn't credit you, because they don't support the asset. You can't move them, because the exchange holds the key, not you. The funds are yours and completely unreachable at the same time, and they stay that way until the exchange lists the asset and manually sweeps it out. Anybody who lives in DeFi knows that cold. I don't live in DeFi. I draw. And I said so, before it went wrong. I asked them directly whether it would show up in my Coinbase if it was connected to my Coinbase ETH address. Nobody told me no until after it had already been sent. The right way to pay someone like me takes ten minutes. Make me a wallet. Hand me the private key. Walk me through it. Send a dollar first and confirm it landed. Then send the real thing. That procedure exists because this exact failure is common and predictable.

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  IRSagent007 (@UnderRadarCrypt) reported 5 minutes ago

  @StarWarsOP @coinbase so dont use the service, withdrawl to your bank wait few days

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  Velvet Unicorn (@VU_virtuals) reported 6 minutes ago

  The AI Trade Needs Adult Supervision Rates Bit First The cleanest read today was not “Bitcoin dipped.” It was that leverage got repriced fast: September hike odds moved to 56%, the 30-year yield returned to 2008 levels, and Bitcoin dropped 3,000 in 60 minutes as 200m of levered longs were liquidated. That matters because liquidity is still abundant in the background, with U.S. M2 at a record 23.22t after 27 straight monthly increases. The market is not short of money; it is short of patience for positions that only work when yields behave. AI Leverage The SEC opened an inquiry into how major Wall Street prime brokers financed one of the most leveraged AI trades of the cycle. That landed the same day a16z raised a 1.1b Machine Age Fund for chips, data centers, robotics and power, while Bullish provided a 100m stablecoin facility for GPU-backed loans. This is the new AI market shape: compute is becoming collateral, infrastructure is becoming credit, and regulators are starting to ask who carried the risk before the trade got too crowded to ignore. Solana Chose Scarcity Solana passed a proposal to double its disinflation rate to 30%, cutting 18.9m $SOL, worth 1.47b, from issuance over the next six years. The vote only cleared the 66.67% threshold in the final hour, after late flips from custodial voters including Kraken and Galaxy. The non-obvious part is not just lower issuance. It is that Solana governance just proved exchanges can be pressured into acting more like conduits than kingmakers when users are loud enough. Exploits Drew Blood @MoonwellDeFi was hit by an 8.7m MAMO collateral price manipulation exploit that drained cbBTC and forced the protocol to pause all Core Market borrowing. It was the third incident in roughly 11 months, which makes “thin collateral plus lending market” look less like edge case and more like a recurring design tax. Avici had its own ugly lesson: attackers drained over 650k from user card balances through compromised admin rights, and the token fell more than 32%; Codex still showed AVICI down 24.13% over 24 hours. The phrase “non-custodial card” is going to get stress-tested, because users now know the admin surface is part of the product. Agents Got Guardrails Ethereum ERC-8196 reached final status, defining AI Agent Authenticated Wallets with policy-bound EIP-712 execution, spend limits, allowlists and audit trails. @AlgoFoundation also launched AC2, where agents request actions over encrypted P2P/WebRTC and users approve with FIDO2 passkey signatures without sharing credentials. Meanwhile @v12sec said its AI security agent autonomously claimed a 2.5m bug bounty on a major blockchain with more than 100m at risk, plus bugs in Linux, QEMU, Postgres and Redis, and raised a 10m seed. The market is building both sides of the same machine: agents that can transact, and agents that can break the things those agents touch. Tokenized Stocks Got Weird Coinbase-issued stock tokens generated 124.8m in DEX volume on Base, with Nvidia-linked tokens accounting for 57% at 71.6m. On Codex, NVDAc showed a 3.16m market cap against 11.66m in 24-hour volume, while QQQB sat near 29.93m market cap with 32.22m in volume and 150,717 holders. That is not traditional equity exposure wearing a nicer jacket. It is equity branding inside crypto market structure, where turnover, liquidity depth and sell-side skew matter as much as the underlying ticker.

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  WealthLift (@Wealth_Lift) reported 8 minutes ago

  Coinbase AI Mortgage Launch: $COIN and Better debut a zero-liquidation mortgage model allowing buyers to use Bitcoin for down payments safely.

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  Nora Dvorakova (@NoraDvorak8d) reported 9 minutes ago

  @icpwillrule Hey, I get the frustration. Crypto is still way too complicated for the average user, especially when exchanges and wallets add unnecessary friction. Coinbase delays and MetaMask setup are exactly the kind of issues I help people navigate

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  bankrbot (@bankrbot) reported 13 minutes ago

  @goyabean_eth odds to find a block in 24 hours at 951 TH/s: • probability: 0.0152% (about 1 in 6,576) • expected blocks: 0.000152 • expected time to block: ~18 years • network difficulty: 125,807,076,547,198 • finder reward: 1 BTC (~$77,095) at 951 TH/s solo mining on BASED, you would expect roughly 1 block every 18 years. whoever's worker solves the block receives the 1 BTC finder reward directly in the coinbase.

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  Louround (@Louround_) reported 14 minutes ago

  Pumpamentals The AI agent sector has been left for dead since february 2025 and this is exactly where the setup gets asymmetric, with a similar pattern as most of the coins I've covered in this series. Recently, Virtuals' robotics division became the largest source of Unitree teleoperation data outside of China that puts Virtuals in a category where very few other crypto projects can credibly claim to be in. On top of that, in the past two weeks alone the team shipped agent tokenization on Solana, real world equity access via Coinbase on Base, and pushed Robinhood volume past $270m, building the infrastructure so they're already positioned when narrative takes off. This is a top 100 token with no VC unlocks left, no team cliff pressure, and a team that used the entire bear market to build actual infrastructure rather than farm the narrative. If the AI agent narrative comes back, Virtuals is the most relevant bet in the category. It's the one with the deepest tech, the most institutional support, and now a proper physical AI angle that is not priced in yet.

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  TurtylG⭕lf (@turtylgolf) reported 14 minutes ago

  @base How could shares in VeVe be tokenized after NASDAQ listing? What is stopping @coinbase from listing their $OMI token? Seems like it would be great to be able to trade between the two. Seems like a perfect combination with @FosterHilt working on the OMI utility program.

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  Courtney Hodare | CB REP (@ZrRizal) reported 14 minutes ago

  Could you please confirm whether this is a Coinbase account restriction and what message you see when you try to sign in, so we can determine what type of lock has been applied?

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  John Kelleher (@jckmd44) reported 15 minutes ago

  having much trouble with Coinbase. Account is locked. I am unable to get into the website because my authenticator does not agree w Coinbase. Been contacting support and have had numerous recordings saying someone will get back to me within 2 hours. This is now nearly 1 week

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  0xSwag (@0x_swag) reported 17 minutes ago

  @A51FMQ I don’t like talking **** about people, so I left quietly and sold a good chunk of my bag around a $2M market cap. That’s all on-chain. I still wanted you guys to win, and still believed there might be a chance, which is why I kept 8M tokens. Back then I was one of the biggest believers in $BARIO. Over time it became clear that a lot of what the team was promising was just empty words. Panik got ahead of himself and promised things he couldn’t deliver. I remember your name, you were there. You know what was being thrown around in the TG. That said, Panik also did a lot of good. He paid for my flight so I could represent the team in LA at a Coinbase event, and that’s still one of the nicest things anyone in this space has ever done for me. I always respected him even when I disagreed with him, and I had a good time when I was more involved. I just can’t agree with how the migration was handled. In my opinion, that was theft. You don’t have to agree with me. btw I also left the team well before the migration. There had been talks about next steps because the Wagmi launchpad was eating all the fees, but I was already gone by then. I had no idea a migration was coming. I was busy with other projects. An honest migration is 1:1, and the claim window should never be that short.

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  komo (@komorata) reported 18 minutes ago

  $WALLET is the deepest onchain rabbit hole of the cycle. Study the current thesis for 24 hours and you’ll start going deeper yourself. You’ll run into offchain, alchemy, arbitrum, chainlink, paxos, Lifi, Lighter, coinbase, and others. They’re all pushing “programmable” on RH because they were involved in Robinhood Chain stock token deployment before public access. Then $WALLET got deployed by the address operating inside that whitelisted-access only.

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  Market Miner (@BemisLisa83887) reported 24 minutes ago

  These 10 stocks are getting close to what I believe could be attractive bottoming levels. I’m watching them closely for potential reversal opportunities: $COIN — Coinbase $MSTR — MicroStrategy $ACHR — Archer Aviation $ARM — Arm Holdings $OKLO — Oklo $TMUS — T-Mobile $USAR — USA Rare Earth $TE — T1 Energy $GRAB — Grab Holdings $SOFI — SoFi Technologies Being near a potential bottom doesn’t mean a stock can’t move lower. Before making any move, I’m watching key support levels, price action, volume, and fundamentals. These names are currently on my watchlist for potential opportunities. Don’t chase the hype. Wait for the right setup. Follow for more high-quality stock insights and potential opportunities.