Aug 26, 2026 weekly deep dive
Treasury Bond Buybacks Ignite Historic Bitcoin Short Squeeze
₿ Conviction
The U.S. Treasury doubled its long-duration bond buyback ceiling last week, triggering a 22% Bitcoin surge in 48 hours and the largest short squeeze since October 2020. The intervention signals a shift from mechanical market-liquidity operations toward active management of the yield curve — a form of Treasury-run quantitative easing that markets immediately priced as debasement, bidding gold and BTC in tandem.