Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 12, 2026: A $445 Saturday, 2026’s 4th-Narrowest Range, as ETF Outflows Fade to $13M

Bitcoin price on September 12, 2026: BTC closed at $77,263, up 0.07%, in a $445 range between a $77,495 high and a $77,050 low — the fourth-narrowest session of 2026 and, on volume of 1,669 BTC, barely a quarter of the twenty-day average, the quietest aftermath imaginable to Friday’s $3,822 inflation-day round trip, with the READ MORE

Monotonic Stack Pattern in C++: 13 LeetCode Problems, One Rule for Popping

Thirteen LeetCode problems, three of them rated Hard, and a single sentence that decides all of them. This post works through Joseph Choi’s stack session deck in C++ and tries to answer the question the problem tags never answer: not which data structure, but when does an entry stop being useful? Every solution here was READ MORE

Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 10, 2026: The Squeeze Breaks Downward as a PPI Overshoot Takes BTC to $76,537

Bitcoin price on September 10, 2026: BTC closed at $76,537, down 2.23%, in a $2,114 range between a $78,554 high and a $76,440 low — the largest daily decline since August 28, a fourth consecutive lower close, and the session in which the eleven-day Bollinger squeeze this brief has tracked all week finally expanded, taking READ MORE

Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 9, 2026

Bitcoin price on September 9, 2026: BTC closed at $78,284, down 0.21%, in a $2,026 range between a $79,753 high and a $77,727 low — a session whose candle body measured just $165, and which ended a twenty-three-day run of closes above the 20-day average while Bollinger band width contracted for an eleventh straight day READ MORE

LeetCode Queue Design Patterns in C++: Put the Answer at an Edge

LeetCode Queue Design Patterns in C++: Put the Answer at an Edge LeetCode Queue Design Patterns in C++: Put the Answer at an Edge nycomdorics.com · preview of the WordPress post · source deck by Joseph Choi A binary heap will hand you its smallest element instantly and tell you nothing whatsoever about the second READ MORE

Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 8, 2026: The Golden Cross Prints at $78,447 as Band Width Falls a Tenth Day to 8.4%

Bitcoin price on September 8, 2026: BTC closed at $78,447, down 0.82%, in a $1,888 range between a $79,477 high and a $77,589 low — a session in which the 50-day moving average finally crossed above the 200-day, the first golden cross since May 2025, while price itself finished $18 from its own 20-day average READ MORE

Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 7, 2026: $79,092 Close as the Squeeze Tightens to 13%; 50-Day Now $124 From the 200-Day

Bitcoin price on September 7, 2026: BTC closed at $79,092, down 1.55%, in a $1,796 range between an $80,462 high and a $78,666 low — a Labor Day session in which $80,000 was given back, while underneath it the 50-day moving average finished $124 from the 200-day and Bollinger band width collapsed to 13.3%, a READ MORE

Decrease and Conquer in C++: Twelve LeetCode Problems That Throw the Search Space Away

Decrease and conquer on LeetCode is the habit of proving that a whole block of candidates cannot possibly hold the answer, and then deleting it without looking. Twelve problems here run on that one move: 167, 11, 42, 121, 53, 1014, 169, 240, 277, 280, plus two that are worth including precisely because one of READ MORE

Bitcoin Daily Brief — September 6, 2026: $80,339 Weekly Close Lands $4 Under the 50-Week Average; Golden Cross Due Tuesday

Bitcoin price on September 6, 2026: BTC closed at $80,339, up 0.64%, in a $1,314 range between an $80,564 high and a $79,250 low — and because Sunday’s daily candle is also the weekly candle, that close settled $4.25 below the 50-week moving average, the closest a weekly close has come to that line in READ MORE