But wait, there’s more! VanEck’s wizards of finance also predict Bitcoin will settle up to 10% of global trade and cozy up to 2.5% of central bank reserves as the ultimate monetary hedge. Because, you know, who needs gold when you can have digital gold? 🏦✨
Michaël van de Poppe, our resident market oracle, has noted that Bitcoin’s recent escapade has triggered a new low on the 3-day MACD indicator. He grandly declared this drop “was heavier than the 2022 Luna crash, the 2020 COVID crash, or the 2018 bear market.” Well, one can only hope he was not speaking from experience!
Fast forward to today, and we find ourselves in a similar frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Investors can’t help but compare the current euphoria to that bygone era, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.01%) having enjoyed three consecutive years of double-digit gains. And let me tell you, folks, when you mix those numbers with a sprinkle of investor anxiety, you’ve got yourself a recipe for a potential market crash that could rival a three-ring circus gone wrong!
Cambodian authorities recently extradited billionaire Chen Zhi to China to face charges for a massive crypto scam. 🤝⚖️
According to the wise sages at CryptoQuant, our esteemed crypto exchanges-those temples of speculation-have witnessed a most dramatic exodus from futures contracts. Three years, they say! Three years since such disgrace! Binance leads this parade of despair with a loss of 1.53 million BTC, followed by Bybit’s 784,000 BTC, Gate’s 505,000 BTC, and OKX’s 395,000 BTC. Mon dieu!
Investors, ever the optimists, received further news of tariffs last week. The timing, however, is as poor as a man in a trench coat asking for directions to a brothel at midnight. The S&P 500, in its infinite wisdom, has flashed a warning not seen since the dot-com crash-a signal that, if heeded, might yet preserve one’s portfolio from the more enthusiastic flames of speculation.
The controversial pundit has reacted to the White House’s latest move to inject liquidity into the U.S. housing market. 🏠💰 (Because nothing says “I’m in charge” like a little mortgage magic.)
His argument, though simple, is as sharp as a guillotine: crypto is maturing into infrastructure. The era of memes, leverage, and quick riches is yielding to one where regulation, institutional tools, and serious capital determine who rises and who falls 🤷♂️.
It was a year when bitcoin bravely transitioned from a wild, risk-on maverick screeching through the markets like a parked jet engine to a steady, corporate-friendly stalwart. Prices soared to a jaw-dropping $126,000-enough to make even the most hardened hodler gasp-before settling into a more modest neighborhood of $80,000 to $90,000. Ah, stability-like a toddler on roller skates, but slightly less dangerous.
In this theater of greed and fear, analysts, those modern-day soothsayers, whisper of a short squeeze-a cataclysmic reckoning for the bears. But is it fate, or merely the delusions of a fevered mind? 🤔
