BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 22, 2026

I grew up with nothing. Success felt
impossible until I found crypto in 2018.
I made every mistake, chasing hype and
holding coins to nearly zero. I then
found technical analysis and it changed
everything. My perspective on this
industry and my success within it. Now
I'm passing that knowledge on to you.
Welcome to Bitcoin Revealed, [music] the
true story.
Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today we're going to look
at Bitcoin because we just saw a massive
inflow from Wall Street on behalf of
their clients. Black Rockck is buying,
Fidelity is buying, and we haven't seen
this many Bitcoin inflows in the entire
year of 2026. And in fact, the last time
we saw inflows like this, it was October
of 2025. Coincidentally, the same month
that Bitcoin would hit an all-time high.
Let's go ahead, smash that like button.
I see your comments already. We are
going to look at AEX. If we have time,
we'll look at a few other ones. But
before we get into anything, we got to
go over who said what. And the who is
me. And what did I say? Well, I said I'm
predicting Bitcoin to find some
resistance at a particular level. In
yesterday's episode, and this is just a
screenshot. This is around two minute
mark or so. We were talking about this
ascending trend line and I said keep an
eye on this when we were trading at
85,800.
Well, what do you know folks? Let's go
into the chart here. That's exactly
where we hit, folks. That's exactly
where we hit. And so remember, we're
around 85800. I said keep an eye out on
this level. We go to the 4 hour textbook
rejection from this ascending trend
line. And the trend line we were talking
about just came from the February low
where you can see right here. Here, let
me go ahead and get it look a little bit
cleaner there. Uh, found some support.
We talked about, you know, kind of
chopped and consolidated around this
area right here. And that's exactly
where Bitcoin would pull back, folks.
So, keep an eye out on Bitcoin as it
continues to test this level. It is
knocking on the door. And the more it
knocks on the door, the more likely it's
going to smash into that door. But we
did I'm making the prediction though,
you know, the next stage is all right.
Well, all right. You called that. So,
what happens next? Nostradamus, tell me
what you have inside your crystal ball.
Don't make any comments about my bald
head, folks. But, uh, I'm looking at
this area for a pullback.
That's going to be the the wick low that
we saw in November into the high in May.
That gives us our little bit of a former
resistance zone that is now flipped into
a support zone. And so, this is going to
be the support animal uh for Bitcoin, if
you will. Now, before we talk about the
ETF flows, let's look at what we're
looking at here with the Bitcoin longs
and shorts. And so this was yesterday
and I was looking at this key level
right there. But we actually would not
come into this range. We would actually
get pulled down. Why? Probably because
some longs started to pile up. You see
some longs starting to pile up. And
those longs had to get liquidated. And
then you can see when that happened, the
short started piling up. And the
brighter the color on this liquidation
heat map, the largest leverage positions
are set to be liquidated if hit. So
we're looking at the bright colors. when
it gets real bright. That's $174
million. And this level right here ended
up getting smoked just uh it's going to
be a couple hours ago now. And you can
see Bitcoin hit that level, wiped out
those positions, started to pull back,
but people are getting greedy. They're
getting greedy with the longs, but
they're getting more greedy with the
shorts. And you can tell that because it
is a brighter color to the upside. And
so that's the key levels that I'm
looking at when it comes to the Bitcoin
chart. Now, I do have a couple other uh,
you know, things I want to show you. I
do want to show you the Bitcoin inflows.
Massive, massive amounts of inflows that
we're looking at from Wall Street. Just
a ton. Uh, a ton. Let's see. Let's uh,
pull up the number right here. Yeah,
major major levels here. Nearly a
billion dollars in a single day. That is
huge, folks. That is very, very massive.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $998 million
yesterday. This is their largest daily
inflow from literally Bitcoin's all-time
high October 6, 11 months ago. They
pulled in almost 12,000 Bitcoin across
the issuers. Now, again, these are large
institutions buying on behalf of their
clients. This isn't Black Rockck adding
it to their own stockpile, adding it
into their own little Bitcoin war chest.
Uh, you know, no, this is for their
clients. But who has the, you know,
where's smart money going to buy Bitcoin
from? They're going to buy it from a
Black Rockck. They're going to buy it
from a Morgan Stanley, a Bitwise, a
Fidelity. ARC maybe less so. Gayscale
definitely less so. But we are seeing a
huge huge inflows. Like I said, to the
tune of $1 billion. Number one, Black
Rockck, they bought 4,400 Bitcoin. So
huge, huge uh let's just say greed.
Greed in the market. And this is at our
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All right, speaking of free stuff,
here's some free setups for Ethereum.
I'm looking at this. This hasn't
changed. Still 2900. Uh we have this
ascending trend line. We have this
descending trend line. These trend lines
coincide right around 2900. Now,
technically, they kind of coincide a
little bit further away, a few days
away, five days away on the 26. So, keep
an eye out on that. To me, both these
levels represent strong resistance for
Ethereum. If Ethereum does decide to
pull up a little bit. Now, if ETH pulls
back, I would just look at the former
resistance for the next support. That's
going to kind of be around this level
right here. It's going to be right
around 2524. If ETH decides to come back
and retest the scene of the crime. Now,
let's talk about Salana. And I'll tell
you why I'm bullish on Salana. why
Salana is one of my major major holdings
when it comes to altcoins and then maybe
I'll give you the tip of the day. What
altcoins to look for in the next stage
of the bull market. Let's look at Salana
here. Salana has this ascending trend
line. I'm going to keep an eye out on
this. I I am watching this and I
actually have a limit order short open
right around 126. We're going to short
100 Salana at that level. And I'm just
kind of looking at where we found
support here, support here, turn into
resistance. And that line is pretty much
coinciding with this line if you extend
it out a few days. This is going to be
on September 28th. So, I'm keeping an
eye out on this level for Salana.
Speaking of the tip of the day, Salana
crushing competition when it comes to
X42
transactions. They have a 76% share.
What the heck is X42? So just think of a
a native language. I mean you can look
at HTTP native payment protocol
simplifying it. This is just a coding
language if you will. How computer A can
talk to computer B specifically when it
comes to payments. It's originally built
by Coinbase uh also stewarded by Linux
Foundation. Pretty strong devs over
there. And they let servers charge for
APIs content directly with the request
response cycle. Again, that's just
another fancy way of computer A talking
to computer B using API data. If you
don't know what that is, it's just kind
of a a way to connect to specific
information. But there are large players
that are backing that. It's not just
Linux, it's not just Salana and a couple
other chains. I was looking at it a
little bit deeper there, folks. Uh we're
talking about some of the biggest names
in all of all of finance, not even all
of crypto. Uh who do we we have? We have
Stripe, we have Visa, we have
Mastercard, uh tons and tons of major
major uh institutions when it comes when
it just comes to payments period here.
And I was looking at that. Let me uh try
to pull it up here. Uh major, like I
said, just the just the biggest names in
all of finance. Um it's also going to be
Google and one other one you may have
heard of, Amazon Web Services. And so
when we're talking about the major
players, we definitely mean the the
major players that we're looking at
here, folks. And that's kind of just
going to dictate how, in my opinion, AI
is going to pay one another. And so if
you see, you know, the robot overlord,
you know, let's just say hellscape that
you maybe saw in a movie, well, if
they're going to be pay if the
Terminator is going to pay for boots,
jeans, motorcycle, sunglasses, whatever
it was, they're going to be using that
same payment protocol, folks. All right,
let's look at XRP major chart that we're
looking at. XR XRP, we got a three
factor setup. And I want to draw this
out for you folks, a three-factor setup
specifically for a short. And so if you
look at this trend line
now intersects through this one but it
does come what do you notice the same
level and so that's factor one. This is
factor two. Factor two is the pivot top
here. Factor one is the ascending trend
line. Factor three is this descending
trend line. And what do you know? Bam.
Right there. And so I did throw this up
on the website. I'm looking at around
170 for a potential swing short on XRP.
This might be uh you know one you got to
watch. Depends on what kind of
environment if Bitcoin is surging when
XRP is nearby. Yeah, it could it could
definitely pass. But I definitely expect
a lot of resistance when it comes to
XRP. Uh nothing wrong. Buy a nice shoe
uh shirt and suit. Hey, what what's
wrong with the suit? What's wrong with
the suit, man? I got my Florida vibes
going on here. We got to we got to cool
it off a little bit. Why? Well, you
know, it's a little bit warm out there,
folks. That's all we're going to say
here. Living in Florida. I did move in.
Oh, great news, by the way. Potentially
looking at selling my house finally. I
might actually be signing signing the
paperwork tomorrow. I think I have a
mobile notary coming to the office in
Florida and I could finally divest
myself of that house in Georgia. I have
a house right outside Atlanta, a little
bit in the country. Um, you know, I love
living out there. I did love my house,
but it's time to it's time to sell it.
It's time to move on. Tell me in the
comment section, what should I do with
the house with the uh extra equity?
Should I go ahead and buy a house in
Florida? You know, no longer rent, or
should I ape in allin-one altcoin? Maybe
Bitcoin? Let me know down below what
altcoin I should yolo into, folks. And
hey, get 10 likes and I'll do No, I'm
just kidding. I'm just kidding, folks.
All right, let's look at uh B&B here.
B&B. Uh pretty pretty interesting chart
setup for this one as well. We are kind
of nearing a level that is coinciding
with the 1010 wick. Now, if you don't
know what the 10-10 wick is, Bitcoin
all-time high 106 of last year on the
10th, four days later, there was a
bloodbath in the crypto markets. A lot
of tokens just got just totally
annihilated. And if we look at this wick
right here, that's going to be a key
level. And then if we can pass that, I'm
looking at this ascending trend line,
but keeping out right around 824 for
BNB. Might be a little bit of some
bearish pressure on that one on the B&B
chart. And B&B just did something huge
with Circle. If you don't know who
Circle is, Circle is the issuer of USDC.
And USDC is the world's second largest
stable coin only behind Tether. And so
because uh of that, you know, that's
just going to be extra revenue, extra
influence with US politics because
circle holds a whole lot of US
treasuries, but that's just, you know,
maybe a little bit deeper. Uh I don't I
don't want to get too deep into the
politics of all that. Folks, I am
looking at near as well. Near has some
pretty interesting setups here. This is
the the one minute chart. Let's go to
the one day.
Look at this nice ascending trend line.
What did we do with this? Well, folks,
we shorted the crap out of this one. Got
in a little bit after the previous high.
I saw the RSI starting to roll over.
Yeah, you can see uh the price putting
in higher highs on the small time frames
while the RSI was putting in lower
highs. So, what did we do, folks? We
shorted that. Had a huge huge short on
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All right, let's look at Hyperliquid
Hyper. Looking pretty bullish, folks. We
talked about the inverse head and
shoulders. We talked about the retest.
We retested. Now we're starting to pump.
Seems like almost every single day. Uh,
you know, for a while we've been putting
in new all-time highs. New all-time
high. New all-time high. took a break,
new all-time high, and again today, new
all-time high. So, we're looking at four
out of the last five days. We put in a
new all-time high. This is the bullish
moment we've been waiting for. And so,
you know, I've been screaming from the
mountain tops. This is my biggest alt
bag. I love me some hype. And now we're
uh finally enjoying the fruits of our
labor. One of the reasons why hype is
going to be so bullish, it's making a
lot of revenue, folks. Lots and lots of
revenue. And this just a good little
moment for the hodlers mentality. If you
have a strong project, the way you get
those big gains is not it's not even
being early. It's holding longer. You
know, there's people who jumped in on
Bitcoin $50 a coin. You know, then they
sold it on Silk Road for, you know,
dubious items. You know, they sold at a
hundred bucks or, you know, maybe they
bought at 250, they sold at a thousand.
It's the people, the maniacs that were
just had full conviction. they are the
ones who ended up in you know enjoying
those big big gains and so sometimes you
got to hodddle the strong coins and if
you look Hyperlid smoking the
competition when it comes to revenue now
this doesn't have Tether and circle by
the way because you know they they dwarf
everybody but you know maybe just a nice
little list you screenshot this a lot of
strong altcoins a's been up a little bit
a's been up collector Crypt this one I'm
a little bit dubious on they're trying
to tie into the Pokemon card craze it's
a project on Salana, you buy the token,
they buy little slabs of cards that are
like, you know, PSA graded Charizards
and whatnot, but the company gets all
the rewards, not the token holders. So,
that one I'm I'm not the biggest fan of.
Uh, it is interesting to see World
Liberty Financials still making some
money. Of course, that's going to be
Trump's token. But, let's uh move on. I
saw you guys asking for AVAC. Looking at
this on the AVAC chart here, we got this
descending trend line. I don't think
it's a coincidence this daily candle hit
into this level and then pulled back.
You see a little bit better on the 4our
chart there. Bam. We hit it, pulled
back, wicked above. Huge wick, pulled
back again, shot above. What we do? We
came down. We retested it. So maybe if
we come down for an additional retest,
that might be some or just if we
continue to head down, there's going to
be some pretty strong pressure. And
there's a another little level go here
to there. That's a little bit aways, but
hey, you know, nice little moonshot
target right around $13 on AVAC. Uh, now
we did get some trades. I took a loss. I
had to close my Zcash short. Uh, no,
sorry, long. I didn't have enough
patience. If I would have held on to the
Zcash long. Let's look at the level. I
had to give up this computer. Uh, you
know, we had more content to shoot. I
have to head home. I don't want to leave
a Zcash trade especially open overnight
on a work computer. That's going to be
right around, you could tell right there
122. That one I didn't want to uh I get
distracted when I'm in these trades live
because you know we do go live 130.
Watch this though. Watch this. 1479
1479
1543 I should have just held on. I
should have just held on everybody. We'd
be looking pretty good on that one. We
go to the one hour chart.
literally panic sold the bottom. It
wasn't even panic selling. You know, I I
I'm not an immortal being. I don't I
don't sleep upside down in the office
like a bat. Maybe uh you know,
management would like me to, but yeah,
you know, I got to head home. I got
things to do, folks. So, I did have to
close that one. I can't just stay in the
trade forever as much as I would like
to. Let's talk about an upcoming trade.
I'm looking at this one, folks. Uh
there's a little bit Let me hit refresh
on this.
some there's a huge pump on Zero.
I am long-term bearish on Zero. This is
the one minute chart. Zero had a huge
huge sweep, wiping out all the shorts.
This one got replaced by chain link for
Wyoming stable coin. So, I'm really not
a big fan of it. You know, it's like
people keep dropping Zero, adding other
protocols. Zero is supposed to, you
know, kind of like help information go
from point A to point B. chain link just
keeps, you know, knocking them out of
the park when it comes from bisdev uh
side here. But this one is starting to
look like it kind of wants to fall over.
We go to the 15. Do we finally now we
still don't have bare divs on the 15
minute? But I really like 145 and I
really like 150 as a potential short
level. And if you want to just, you
know, maybe yolo in a little early, I'm
not going to be super mad at you. And
you can see we are starting to see those
uh longs looking like they want to get
swept out. Couple more shorts still
above. So keep an eye out on that. And
so those are the levels. That's a trade
setup for you folks if you want to look
at it. Everybody make sure you hit that
like button. Yeah. Someone's saying I
remember the guy buying pizza with
Bitcoin back in 2010. 10,000
10,000 Bitcoin for two Papa John's
pizzas. wasn't even the good New York
style place up the road. It was a
freaking chain restaurant. Although, I
will admit, Papa John's used to be
really good back in 2010, uh, before we,
you know, before they probably put a
bunch of crap into their food. That
garlic butter sauce was delicious,
folks. Very, very good. Uh, go all in on
Fartcoin.
I don't even know if I should tell you
this one. There's a meta happening right
now on Salana that where you hold a
memecoin you get paid in a underlying
asset and the way they fund it is when
you buy the memecoin. Sure, you know,
you put in a hundred bucks. Say you want
to sell immediately. They tax you on the
exit. And so that $100 just
automatically will turn into $97. And so
when everybody sells that $3, you know,
it aggregates and more and more people
buy, they pay the holders of the the
coin in the underlying asset. So there's
a coin called stink. I'm not saying buy
this. Uh if you hold stink, you get air
dropped fartcoin. I it's there. If you
hold knots, you get air dropped ston. Uh
if you hold zcat, you get airdrop zcash.
Uh I actually hold a few of those, if
not all of those. And so maybe something
interesting useless. I don't think they
have a little payback though. Uh Hype
only has 26% of its coins in
circulation. Beware of rugpulls. Hype
the team is I' I've been read every time
uh the the guy does an interview I I I
read it voraciously. That guy seems like
he's more of a CZ type. And did CZ dump
B&B? Not really. He held and they still,
you know, still just a whole whole bunch
held back. And I think we're going to
see a similar situation for Hyperlid.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's just going
to go dump it all. But the team seems
long-term oriented and have a long-term
alignment with the token holders. That's
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future. Appreciate. Bye.