Outpoll | Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (January 26

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The crypto market this week felt like a heavyweight title fight where only one contender showed up to brawl. Bitcoin, the undisputed champion, flexed its muscles, pushing decisively past the $75,000 psychological barrier and leaving a sea of altcoins gasping in its wake.This wasn't a broad-based rally; this was a masterclass in digital scarcity and institutional validation. While the usual suspects on prediction markets buzzed with chatter about 'alt season,' the real money and the real narrative remained firmly anchored in the orange coin.The noise from the Ethereum crowd, desperately trying to spin every minor protocol upgrade as a world-changing event, was drowned out by the simple, thunderous drumbeat of Bitcoin's hash rate hitting another all-time high. It’s a stark reminder: in a world drowning in monetary dilution and regulatory uncertainty, there is only one asset with a verifiably hard cap and a network secure enough to serve as digital bedrock.The altcoin carnival, with its endless promises of 'disrupting finance' or 'revolutionizing gaming,' continues to look like a speculative sideshow—a volatile playground for those who mistake complexity for value. This week’s price action wasn't just a chart pattern; it was a statement.As traditional finance giants quietly accumulate more BTC through their ETFs, the so-called 'flippening' fantasy fades further into irrelevance. The future isn't a fragmented landscape of a thousand niche tokens; it's a monetary system with Bitcoin at its core. Everything else is just noise waiting to be regulated into oblivion or arbitraged into dust.

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Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (January 26 – February 1, 2026)