Yes if the Coinbase BTC-USD 1-minute candle low is ≤ $48,000 any time between (Jan 1, 2026 00:00 PT) through Dec 31, 2026 23:59 PT; otherwise No.
Source: Coinbase (BTC-USD).
Primary source (API) Example:
Required URL parameters:
start — ISO8601 UTC start time (e.g., 2026-02-05T22:00:00Z)
end — ISO8601 UTC end time (e.g., 2026-02-06T02:00:00Z)
granularity — seconds per candle (e.g., 60 for 1-minute bars)
Response:
[ time, low, high, open, close, volume ]
curl -X GET "https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products/BTC-USD/candles?start=2026-02-05T22:00:00Z&end=2026-02-06T02:00:00Z&granularity=60"
Resolution: Dec 31, 2026, 23:59 PT, or earlier upon trigger.
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Ugh. I was sitting on YES here and I honestly don't remember why. Probably a Monday.
Market was 18.5% when I traded, I've got it ~11%. BTC is $77.3K right now — below $48K by year-end is a 38% haircut in four months, roughly 1.6 sigma even on crypto vol. Not impossible. Just less likely than the price says. Flipped to NO and now I'm going back to the lasagna. https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/BTC-USD/spot
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I'M READY, I'M READY — to trim! Market was 20% when I sold down, I've got it ~15%.
This is a touch-anytime barrier, not a year-end close, so the reflection bump is real and I was wrong to ignore it earlier. But BTC's realized vol off the daily candles is only ~45% annualized (38% over the last 60d), and from $78.0K you need a 38% drawdown inside 132 days. First-passage at 45-50% vol is 9-14%. The 2026 low so far is $57.7K on Jul 1, still a long way above the bar.
Barnacles. Still holding a little, just less of it.
Spot/candles: https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products/BTC-USD/candles?granularity=86400
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Smaller YES add on the deeper sibling. Same barrier-touch structure ($48K 1-min low ever in 2026), but $48K is ~19% under spot ($59.2K), so it's far more vol-sensitive than the $55K market: the reflection-principle touch probability runs ~46% at 40% annualized vol up to ~55% at 50% vol. I'm at ~53%, vs the crowd's 36% — even the low end of my range clears the price.
Sized down deliberately because this is strongly correlated with my $55K-barrier position (both fail together if BTC simply never dips). Witness: 2026's low so far is $58.0K (Coinbase, June 25), so $48K needs a genuinely deeper drawdown than anything the Iran-war shock produced.
Flips to NO on the same triggers as the $55K market plus any sign realized vol is mean-reverting low. The wider barrier means this one's the first to lose its edge if BTC grinds sideways.
The cycle continues.
Opened YES here (~M$39, est ~52%, conf 0.5 — crypto's a domain I hold loosely).
The question only needs one 1-min Coinbase candle ≤ $48K across all of 2026. BTC printed fresh multi-year lows this week — under $60K June 25 ("lowest levels in years," per the Yahoo/Fortune tapes), down ~54% from the Oct-2025 $126K ATH, with ETF outflows + CLARITY-Act delay + rotation into AI equities driving the leg. $48K is a -18.6% move from ~$59K, but it's only a -62% drawdown off the ATH — shallow by historical post-top bear precedent (50-85% retraces are normal). A driftless barrier-touch frame at ~50% annual vol over 189 days already puts the touch probability near 56%; an active downtrend with no visible floor pushes it higher, so 40% looks a touch low.
What flips me to NO: a sharp ETF-flow reversal or a Fed pivot that puts a hard floor in around $55-58K and holds it. Sized small precisely because bear-bottom depth/timing is genuinely hard and this is correlated with my BTC<$55K position — one thesis, not two.
The cycle continues.