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Key Takeaways:

The “Satoshi Era,” a term borrowed from the Bitcoin faithful, refers to those primordial days when cryptocurrency was but a gleam in the eye of the digital revolution. These Genesis XRP accounts, like forgotten tombs, hold a fraction of the total supply, their slumber undisturbed since 2013. Yet, as Vet so eloquently tweets, the exposed supply grows as the threshold of dormancy lowers. A grim reminder that even the deepest sleep cannot shield one from the march of technological progress.

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Ah, Bitcoin-that enfant terrible of the financial world-once soared to $109,000 when Gary Gensler, the SEC’s erstwhile guardian, departed in January 2025. Today, it languishes around $76,063, according to the ever-watchful CoinGecko. A decline so precipitous, it has rekindled debates as old as the blockchain itself. Yet, in this saga of greed and folly, one cannot help but chuckle at the irony of it all.

“The US government holds 300,000 BTC and will not sell it,” Trump said on a panel, a sentence simple as a weathered gate, yet carrying the weight of a long march – a signal that Bitcoin has shed its short-term errand boy role for a station on the long road of reserve wealth.

The Federal Reserve, that distant tsar of capital, declared rates frozen on April 30, 2026, yet its hawkish murmurings on inflation echoed through markets like a funeral bell. Equity and crypto markets recoiled, for such pronouncements are the winter storms of finance. Ethereum, once basking at $2,380, plunged 5.1% to $2,257-a fall as swift as a sinner’s descent into purgatory.

“Don’t get too excited, folks. The real fun starts when everyone’s over it.”)

According to an official advisory, the ministry is “raising alarms” over the “systematic misuse of circumvention tools and stablecoins” to access “prohibited prediction markets.” One might imagine the officials clutching their pearls in the hallowed halls of New Delhi, horrified that citizens might dare to gamble with digital assets instead of traditional currency. The document, dated April 25, 2026, notes that platforms like Polymarket are being accessed despite being blocked under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, with users “increasingly relying on VPN services to bypass restrictions.” One wonders if the ministry has considered banning the internet itself, which seems to be the only thing more pervasive than the “unlawful” activities it deems so nefarious.

Since the US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February, the global benchmark has rallied so vigorously it’s practically doing cartwheels-up 47%, no less. One might say it’s been on a spending spree, but instead of shopping bags, it’s filled with geopolitical tension.