So, buckle up, dear reader, as we dive into the magical, slightly chaotic world of crypto adoption. Will it really reach billions of users by 2030? Or will it all go *poof* like a poorly planned soufflé? Let’s find out! 😉
Only 21% of U.S. families own stocks outside funds. Yet the market, as Siegel said, is the greatest wealth creator. A fact ignored by many. So it goes.
After being thrown down by the $3.66 peak in August, XRP has adopted the survivalist spirit of a cockroach. It clings stubbornly to $2.75, a fortress in the wasteland. The $3.0 mark? A mountain to climb, but one that promises views of $3.70 and beyond if conquered. The XRP price chart now reads like a motivational poster: “Rise, rise, rise-or perish.”
ASML, for instance, makes these things called extreme ultraviolet lithography systems. I imagine them as the Swiss Army knives of chip-making, but with fewer blades and more existential dread. Their machines are so complicated that even the engineers who build them might as well be speaking a different language. Which, honestly, is probably why ASML’s CEO, Christophe Fouquet, said something about “increasing uncertainty” during his earnings call. It’s not that he’s worried about the future-he’s worried about the present, which is a lot like trying to predict the weather in a hurricane.
The numbers, oh the numbers! Revenue, a tempest of 168% growth, net income, a resurrection from the grave of loss. EBITDA, a crescendo of 395%. Yet these figures, so seductive, are but the masks of a masquerade. What lies beneath? A company, trembling on the precipice of its own ambition, trading in the currency of hype, its soul adrift in the void between promise and peril.
Apparently, an Indian court decided 14 people – including Nalin Kotadiya, ex-MLA for the Bharatiya Janata Party (because naturally), and Jagdish Patel, former Amreli superintendent of police (double naturally) – are going to have a very long think about their life choices. Life in prison, to be precise. According to Hindustan Times, they decided kidnapping and illegally detaining two blokes, Shailesh Bhatt and Kishor Paladia, was a perfectly reasonable way to get their hands on some digital currency.
Behold the stock, now trading at $47, a price that whispers of untold riches-or perhaps the hiss of a snake in the grass. The question lingers like a ghost in the machine: can this number, this mere numeral, be coaxed into a sylph-like $100?
First came Korea Zinc, that industrious titan from South Korea, sweeping in with an $85.2 million investment. Quite the endorsement, darling-one might say it was TMC’s first proper coming-out party. Then NOAA, bless their bureaucratic hearts, reconfirmed compliance under U.S. law for TMC’s exploration applications. How thrillingly pedestrian.
Over the past three years, its stock has ascended like a particularly ambitious goblin in a tournament of dragons. A $10,000 investment? That’s now nearly $44,200, assuming you’ve been riding the wave of a company that seems to believe “revenue growth” is a spell that can be cast indefinitely. But as any seasoned wizard knows, even the brightest spells can fizzle when the ingredients are questionable.
Why the sudden surge? Oh, just the small matter of Grayscale’s Cardano ETF application, which has an 87% chance of approval according to Polymarket. October 26, 2025, is the big day, and everyone’s acting like it’s the blockchain equivalent of the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Cardano’s new “Ouroboros Leios” protocol is in public review, which sounds like a fancy way of saying, “We’re still building stuff, folks!” Investors are eating it up like it’s the last slice of pizza at a party. 🍕