In this year of our crypto lord, 2025, utility has been crowned king. Traders, those fickle creatures, now crave wallets, infrastructure, and DeFi tools that simplify their on-chain existence. How mature of them! 🌱
Brazilian crypto users, brace yourselves. Trustwave SpiderLabs (who sound like a tech-savvy circus act) have uncovered a multi-stage threat so slick it’s basically a cybercriminals’ dream come true. Eternidade, a Delphi-based stealer, doesn’t just steal your data-it updates its command-and-control servers like a boss, all while hiding in plain sight. Think of it as a cockroach with a PhD in stealth. 🧠🦟
Both ETFs are like crypto’s answer to fast food: single-asset funds that give you pure exposure to either bitcoin or ether. No sides. No salads. Just the meat. But which meat? The one that’s survived market acid rain (bitcoin) or the one tied to a blockchain that’s basically a rebellious teenager (ether)?
Here is the simple truth: both these funds charge an almost mundane fee of a quarter of a percent-costs that, in the great vista of investment, can at times seem like mere grains of dust caught in a desert wind. Neither pays dividends; there’s no cash to be taken and cherished, only the hopes of capital growth. They are both straightforward in their design, like the lean tools of a seasoned woodsman-spot exposures to their respective digital assets, unadorned and unpretentious.
Both funds-their thumbs pressed firmly on the pulse of America’s big-cap stock carcass-lure investors with different philosophies: QQQ, the speed freak, leans heavily on tech-an unforgiving, relentless buzz saw-while VOO offers the broader, more forgiving hand of the S&P 500, a smorgasbord of U.S. market life. This isn’t just a two-way street, it’s a hell ride into the soul of what makes the market tick-performance, peril, and pure, unadulterated risk wrapped in a black leather coat of hope or despair.
Today, the CoinDesk 20 Index has decided to take a leisurely stroll down the gravity well, currently lounging at 2667.21, a 4.0% dip since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. 📉 That’s right, folks, it’s lost 111.91 points, which is roughly the equivalent of misplacing your towel in a galaxy far, far away. 🌌
Apparently, Bain Capital, the private equity version of that guy at the office who always looks like he’s planning your downfall but secretly just wants job security, decided to dip its toes into the optometric waters. They bought almost 200,000 shares of National Vision’s stock-EYE, which is somehow more of a visual pun than an actual ticker. This was all during the third quarter, a period which, in my own schedule, often coincides with that awkward moment when I realize I’ve been staring at my inbox for hours and still have no idea what the latest corporate jargon actually means. The stock, at just shy of $24 per share, has surged 113.82% in the past year, outselling my own failed attempts to grow a beard by a wide margin-by about 97 percentage points.
Lee explains it like a farmer losing his plow in the middle of harvest season. When these firms lose capital, they don’t just shrug it off-they clamp down, cutting trades, selling assets, and hoarding cash like squirrels in winter. This selling spree, of course, sends prices tumbling faster than a drunk cowboy off a horse. 🐎🤠
“The four-year cycle,” Park declared with the gravitas of a man sentencing an old god to oblivion, “is as dead as the hopes of a gambler on a losing streak.” He argues that the halving, once the sacred heartbeat of Bitcoin’s rhythm, is now but a relic, irrelevant in the face of new, institutional appetites. “The market,” he intoned, “is no longer a slave to the whims of the halving, but a creature of broader, more capricious forces.” 🦎
Glassnode whispers that realized losses hit levels last seen in the November 2022 FTX fiasco-a moment that will be remembered, mainly because everyone lost sleep over it. This time, it’s almost all short-term holders running for their digital lives, unwinding faster than a cheap sweater.