Thismorning while I watch the LIVE Clarity Act Markup Session, I have the Bitcoin chart open. As I sip my coffee I listen to the arguments for and against over 100 amendments and the procedural discussions to obtain bi-partisan support for various amendments. Once they finish their work it will be important to evaluate the proposed bill with the included amendments as it passes.

https://www.bitget.com/trading-bot/spot/BTCUSDT

81,460 USDT today May 14th 2026

In my morning browsing, this article came up, which I tend to agree with.

"Peter Brandt Says Bitcoin Has Yet to Bottom, Warns Rebound May Be a Bull Trap"

https://en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/112033

I look to the Stock-To-Flow chart I posted 3 days ago identifying the current days remaining until the next halving in the gradient as 83FF00, which I point out during the past 3 cycles. BTC may still dip!

https://charts.bitbo.io/stock-to-flow/

HYPE is up +9.6%, CANTON +8%, LINK +5.3%, and DOGE +3.2%; on BTC's +2.9% the past 24 hrs.

BTC Market Cap Dominance is 58.37%, up from 58.22% 4 days ago.

https://coinmarkets.today/

In the BTC Explorer you can find the Latest Blocks

Latest Block: 949,393

Bitfeed is a great visualization of the latest blocks,
and you can watch the pending tx's stack up in the Mempool below.

https://bits.monospace.live/

"A total of 6,005.60 BTC ($489,837,216) were sent in the block with the average transaction being 1.0626 BTC ($86,669.29). AntPool earned a total reward of 3.13 BTC $254,885. The reward consisted of a base reward of 3.13 BTC $254,885 with an additional 0.0057 BTC ($461.54) reward paid as fees of the 5,652 transactions which were included in the block."

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/949393

As long as the M2 Global money supply continues to rise, hard assets will likely appreciate.
This is not a guarantee that all assets will perform, but consider having Gold, Silver and BTC.

https://bitcoincounterflow.com/charts/m2-global/