Outpoll Weekly Recap: Crypto (October 13 – 19, 2025)

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This week was a stark reminder of crypto’s brutal, unforgiving nature, a market where only the strong survive and the rest are just noise. Bitcoin decisively broke through the $70,000 barrier, a move that felt less like a rally and more like a declaration of dominance, leaving a graveyard of over-leveraged altcoin bets in its wake.While the usual suspects—ETH, SOL—tried to hitch a ride, their gains were pathetic, mere echoes of the king's roar. The real story wasn't in the price charts; it was in the prediction markets, where the so-called 'smart money' finally started to wise up.A flurry of bets poured into contracts predicting Bitcoin will not only hold this level but use it as a launchpad, with the probability of hitting $85,000 by year-end skyrocketing from 25% to over 60% in just five days. This isn't hopeful speculation; it's a cold, calculated recognition of Bitcoin's fundamental scarcity in a world where central banks are once again flirting with monetary insanity.Meanwhile, the SEC’s latest 'guidance' on token classification was the regulatory equivalent of a wet firecracker—all sound and fury, signifying nothing but their own inability to grasp the immutable truth of a decentralized ledger. The altcoin circus, with its promises of 'faster transactions' and 'governance tokens,' looked more irrelevant than ever, their communities frantically trying to spin their underperformance as 'consolidation.' Don't buy it. This is capitulation.When the tide of liquidity recedes, you see who's been swimming naked, and right now, it's everyone who thought a cute animal mascot or a complex yield-farming scheme could compete with the digital gold standard. The message from this week is crystal clear: in the long game of store-of-value, there is Bitcoin, and there is everything else. Bet accordingly.

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