Executive Summary

The digital asset market in February 2026 is characterized by a phase of “Asymmetric Realignment,” where the correlations between Bitcoin price, mining operations, and macroeconomic factors are fracturing. While Bitcoin has faced significant technical pressure—briefly retreating below its 200-week Exponential Moving Average (EMA) to $65,266—the underlying infrastructure is maturing through institutional industrialization.

A critical philosophical split has emerged in the corporate sector: entities are now choosing between AI Compute infrastructure and leveraged Bitcoin accumulation. While retail sentiment has dipped into “Extreme Fear” following a stagnant U.S. labor market and sticky inflation, massive institutional players like Millennium Management and CalPERS continue to acquire the dip. Regionally, the market is grappling with a catastrophic “Ghost Coin” error at South Korea’s Bithumb, leading to an aggressive regulatory crackdown, while the U.S. remains deadlocked over stablecoin yield legislation.

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