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The futures markets, they swell up! Like a bad plate of gefilte fish! Open interest up 7 percent in Bitcoin and Ethereum, totaling a leverage increase to a whopping $35 to $38 billion. All while everyone’s kvetching about the doom and gloom. You call this smart investing? I call it a recipe for heartburn.
As of late, Optimism can be acquired for a mere $0.2678, a decline of 4% in a single day! Over the past week, it did flutter ‘tween $0.252 and $0.282, a most indecisive dance! By my reckoning, it is 1.3% lesser than it was a week prior and down a full 18% from last month. A sorrowful plight, indeed!
On Monday, Strategy announced-with the enthusiasm of someone who just discovered online shopping-that it had bought 1,129 Bitcoin at an average price of only $88,568 each. Bargain! That’s a mere $108.8 million spent, because, you know, pocket change.
This represents a 35% hike from January 1st, 2025. A year of expansion, they say. I say a year of increasingly powerful computers working very hard. It’s all a bit much, isn’t it? 🤯
But hold up-before you sell your grandma’s pearls to buy a tinfoil hat, let’s talk about the real drama. Axel Adler, crypto’s favorite gloom analyst (you know, the one who’s always side-eyeing the chart), dropped a spicy graph this week. Turns out November wasn’t just a bad hair day-it was a full-blown “I-quit-my-job-to-trade-Bitcoin-and-now-I-own-12-cats” level of capitulation. December? More “meh, I’ll just binge-watch The Bear and pretend this isn’t happening.”
According to Darkfost, XRP’s decline isn’t just a minor setback-it’s a full-blown existential crisis. The coin has lost nearly half its value since its peak, which is like watching your savings account vanish faster than a magician’s rabbit. 🧙♂️💸 The data suggests this isn’t a quick dip but a deep dive into the ocean of despair. 🌊
Zcash, that sneaky little minx of a coin, has slithered back into the spotlight, thanks to Hayes’ bold predictions. The former BitMEX bigwig (yes, the one who’s seen more ups and downs than a yo-yo) claims $1,000 is just the first stop on Zcash’s wild rollercoaster ride. 🎢 And what’s fueling this madness? Liquidity, of course! Money’s flowing in like a chocolate river in Willy Wonka’s factory, and privacy coins are the golden tickets. 🍫✨
Darkfrost2, a crypto oracle with a name suspiciously like a frozen treat, claims the “Exchange Inflow” metric has spiked. This measures how many XRP holders are shoveling their coins into centralized exchanges3-probably to sell them, because nobody deposits tokens just to say hi.
According to the annals of Bitstamp, our crypt king embarked on a valiant ascent during the Asian session’s dawn, cresting just above $90,200 at the stroke of 05:00 UTC. A triumph, one might think, but oh, the fragility of such glory! By 09:30 UTC, the sell-side specters emerged, their howls crescendoing into a high-volume cascade that washed away the day’s gains like so much sand in a tempest. 🌊🔻
In the span of seven days, XRP raked in $70.2 million from those oh-so-discerning institutional investors. Basically, XRP’s party trick of the week was collecting more cash than your grandma’s vintage coin jar. It’s the star of the show, pulling in more funds than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana-who, let’s be honest, are probably wondering what’s happening. Solana, proud and nicely green, managed a mere $7.5 million, which is basically the difference between XRP’s tip jar and Solana’s lemonade stand.