Bitcoin Jumps to $81.5K as US GDP Data Beats Expectations

The timing is the tell: bitcoin's push back to a closely watched weekly resistance came on stronger-than-expected US growth data, not on a crypto-specific catalyst. That suggests macro prints are still steering BTC's short-term direction, even as equities wrestle with mixed earnings signals like Alphabet's miss. The open question is whether this resistance level holds or rejects, which would say more about positioning than the GDP beat itself.