$76 million vanished across 26 incidents-a modest sum for the modern robber barons, but a drop in the ocean compared to November’s feast. The largest heist? A $50 million address-poisoning scam, where hackers played dress-up with wallet addresses like a digital game of “guess the password” (spoiler: it’s “I’m a scammer, duh”).
On the 6-hour chart shared by FLASH, AVAX has cleanly broken above a descending trendline that capped price action throughout December. This trendline had previously acted as dynamic resistance, rejecting multiple upside attempts before sellers lost control. 🕵️♂️📉
Meanwhile, the crypto market’s “resurgence” continues like a toddler on a sugar rush. Bitcoin (BTC) is flirting with $90k, up 1%, because apparently, $89,440 wasn’t dramatic enough. Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), and the entire cast of crypto tokens are trading in “positive territory”-a term we’ll define as “not down 90% today.” 🚀
But wait! The drama continues. Marathon Fusion tried to jazz up mercury into gold like it’s 5️⃣⃣ Demi Moore (if she’d picked better scripts). 🥁 Their “gold alchemy” would produce enough sparkle to fund a very* modest prince… if you ignore the fact that science can now basically print gold like it’s selling discount coins on Amazon. 🤨
This analyst, Burak Kesmeci – a name I fully expect to be mispronouncing at a cocktail party – noticed Bitcoin went up almost 4% since January 1st. Groundbreaking. He also says Americans are buying more of it. Which, again, doesn’t surprise me. America loves a hype cycle. He’s looking at “Coinbase premiums” which is basically how much extra US investors are willing to pay. Turns out, they’re still a little skeptical, which, honestly, good for them. 😌
With routine escrow unlocks adding minimal net supply, market sentiment is shifting from fear to structural resilience. 🤯 Or just a very tired market.
Where now, dear reader, are the treasures of XRP? Do they lie in the dustbins of retail gloom? Nay! For while sentiment teeters like a drunkard on a scaffold, data whispers of ETF inflows so vast they make financial economists reconsider their life choices. Santiment’s scrolls reveal bearish chatter now waxing 20-30% fiercer than November’s moping-that is to say, depths plumbed even by the most embittered ex.
Ended ’25 at twenty cents, which is…well, it’s somethin’. Now, we took this situation to one of them artificial thinkin’ machines, ChatGPT, and asked it what ’26 held. Wanted to know the worst, the absolute bottom of the barrel. Figured even a machine can spin a yarn about money.
Ilya Lichtenstein, the self-confessed hacker of crypto exchange Bitfinex, has been released from prison ahead of schedule. On January 2, 2026, he confirmed his newfound freedom in a social media post that set tongues wagging once again about one of crypto’s most notorious crimes. 🕵️♂️
With the market responding as predictably as a divan collapsing under winter’s weight-a plunge in stock prices, a storm of short sellers-the exigent question lingers: Is this merely the prelude to a grander, more glacial financial opera? Bishara, ever the sage in a sea of calamity, opines on the likelihood of a deluge of lawsuits, each one a mere clone in this frostbitten parade.
