jpyxx The Portuguese gambling regulator, the Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ), has issued an emergency shutdown order for Polymarket, which had the audacity to let people bet on politics during an election. Talk about a party pooper!
Indeed, ZEC has been on a five-day bender of lower lows, a testament to the bearish spirits that have taken hold. The poor dear has tumbled below its 20, 50, and 100 short-term EMAs, leaving it as disheveled as a debutante after a night at the wrong sort of party. At the time of this scribbling, it trades at $347, down 5.98%, continuing its week-long descent into the abyss.
January 2026 was a rough month for Bitcoin. It’s like the cryptocurrency version of a breakup-trading near a two-year low while gold sips champagne and smirks. Bitwise’s analysis says this Z-score dip is a historic marker for Bitcoin’s bottom, but let’s be real: history’s a terrible predictor when your portfolio is in crisis mode.
This sudden reversal, dear reader, is no mere waltz of the feet. It’s a full-blown quadrille of panic among latecomers, who now stare at their losses like a peasant at a bill from the tsar’s taxman. The price, once kissed by the sun of ATH glory, now bounces off support like a frog in a tuxedo, all the while the volume hums a tune of madness, hinting that traders will soon be dancing the mazurka of profit-taking-or perhaps the waltz of regret.
Yes indeed, dear reader, Litecoin’s market structure is “broadly intact” – which is a fancy way of saying “the ground wobbles but doesn’t crack.” According to our feathery friend @ThePenguinXBT, LTC’s chart looks less like a spaghetti junction and more like a treasure map. A treasure map that might, gasp, lead to higher highs! Though one wonders if this penguin’s flipper-watch is running slow.
Blockchain analytics firm Glassnode-those number-crunching wizards-spilled the beans on Monday that XRP (XRP) is back to its old tricks, sporting a cost-basis configuration last seen in February 2022. Seems the recent buyers are piling in at prices that leave the earlier folks high and dry, according to a note shared via X.
The market, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to stabilize around a “demand zone.” Sounds fancy, doesn’t it? Like a VIP section for crypto enthusiasts. But let’s call it what it is: a last-ditch effort to avoid a full-on nosedive. Will it consolidate, or will it continue its downward spiral? Place your bets, folks. The financial equivalent of a coin toss is underway.
Wood, a man whose investment acumen is as celebrated as it is contentious, insists he is not predicting a sudden crypto meltdown but rather a slow, quantum-fueled exsanguination of Bitcoin’s store-of-value narrative. “While GREED & fear (a firm name that suggests either a lack of originality or a penchant for alliteration) does not believe the quantum issue will immediately decimate Bitcoin’s price,” he opined, “the very foundation of its claim to immortality as a pension portfolio staple is now built on sand.” Thus, with the solemnity of a Victorian parson reallocating his parish’s endowment, Wood has divested 10% of his Bitcoin holdings, apportioning 5% to gold and another 5% to gold-mining equities-because nothing says “future-proof” like a mid-19th-century mining stock.
The altcoins, bless their hearts, are once again drowning in crimson. There’s Ethereum, once strutting proudly above $3,300 on a warm Sunday evening, now wallowing below $3,100, as if someone pulled the rug right out from under it. And let’s not forget poor XRP, losing its grip on the precious $2.00 support like a cat thrown into water-flailing and confused.
The same pesky support level that used to crush every rally is back in the spotlight. And guess what? ETF demand just had its best week since the dinosaurs roamed the earth (well, 2026, but still impressive).
