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The Weekly Brief

8 issues · published weekly

Bitcoin, explained plainly for St. Louis. Network costs, steady accumulation, what a saved dollar is doing, and how to keep your coins safe. Published weekly by 314 Bitcoin Consulting.

Issue 8 · October 12, 2026
Bitcoin slipped 4.7% this week, and a steady $50 a week barely noticed.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $82,418.00. That is down about 4.7% on the week. Last week I wrote about a good month, so it is only fair to say that part of it was handed back. The…

Issue 7 · October 5, 2026
Bitcoin gained 7.6% this month, and it is still down 30.0% on the year.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $85,720.00. That is up about 1.5% on the week and about 7.6% on the month, and I'd like to put those next to a third number before anyone gets comfortable…

Issue 6 · September 28, 2026
Last week I promised to keep printing this number. It's back in the red.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $84,074.00. The seven-day figure says it was up about 3.6%, and that's true. It is also true that the price is a about twenty-five hundred dollars lower…

Issue 5 · September 21, 2026
A loss turned into a gain this week, and the person holding it did nothing at all.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $86,615.00, up roughly 12.7%. That is the second-biggest week I've covered since I started writing this, and I want to put it in its place before it gets…

Issue 4 · September 14, 2026
Up 25% this month, down 32% this year — the same coin. The difference is when you started.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $78,799.00, down roughly 1.9%. Now here are two true sentences about the same asset. Over the past month, Bitcoin is up about 25.1%. Over the past twelve…

Issue 3 · September 8, 2026
Nothing happened this week. That makes it the right week to write things down.

Bitcoin finished the week at about $78,356.00, down roughly 0.2%. That is not a rounding error I'm hiding something behind — two tenths of a percent is genuinely all that moved. Zoom out…

Issue 2 · September 4, 2026
It costs 11 cents this week to move your Bitcoin somewhere safe.

Bitcoin finished the week down about 1.3%. Over the past month it's up about 23.8%, which sounds like a lot right up until you notice it's still sitting only about 31% of the way up its…

Issue 1 · August 25, 2026
Bitcoin fell 30% this year. Buying $50 a week, you're down 1%.

Bitcoin rose about 22% this week. You'll see plenty of people celebrating that, and I'd rather give you the fuller picture: even after a week like this one, Bitcoin is sitting only about a…

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