Vitalik Buterin, the modern-day prophet, doth march against Elon Musk’s promise of transparency. He seeks not mere open-source code, but systems that test algorithmic decisions-like a child demanding a mirror to see his own face! 🤖🎭
This new Nigeria Tax Administration Act of 2025, a name that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, insists that all chaps offering virtual asset services – those crypto exchanges and the like – must gather an alarming amount of personal data. Names, addresses, your Tax Identification Number (TIN, good grief!), and, most unsettling of all, your National Identity Number (NIN). 😱 As if one doesn’t have enough numbers to keep track of already!
All this happened in, oh, only 62 minutes. Sixty-two minutes! Which, when you consider the vastness of space and the impending heat death of the universe, is frankly an absurdly short amount of time to move around $151.3 million worth of anything. Especially digital tokens. 🤷
Like its more serious brethren-Bitcoin and Ethereum-Dogecoin has succumbed to gravity, tumbling below the once-sturdy $0.1500 floor. From there, it plunged through $0.1450 and $0.1420 with the grace of a drunken nobleman.
In a tragicomic twist, Ethereum stumbled at the gates of $3,150, trimming its gains much like a careless barber at a royal salon. Alas, it has dipped below $3,120, entering a realm most bearish indeed.
Old Bitcoin’s managed to cling on above $89,500, bless its cotton socks, and started a modest recovery. It’s settled above $90,000 and $90,500, like a fellow finding his footing after a spot of overindulgence.
A fellow named Maartunn-a prophet of sorts in this new age of speculative finance-has observed that Mondays, quite conveniently, have been the strongest days for trade of late. As if the week begins with a collective need to justify the excesses of the weekend! Naturally, one suspects this is a coincidence, or perhaps the workings of some unseen hand guiding the market. 🤷🏻♂️
From that vantage, a verbose forecast on the grand drawing-room of the internet-X-by Javon Marks has sketched a tale: the present flutter of price is but a thread in a broader bullish march, woven from the same dusty patterns that Dogecoin’s long saga keeps rereading.
As of January 12, 2026, Ethereum lingers near $3,138-a number as meaningless as all numbers are in the grand scheme of things. 🌌 It’s been circling the $3,100 drain since late 2025, less a trend than a drunkard’s waltz with a lamppost. On-chain data? Tokenized assets? Sure, they’re “firm,” but when has data ever calmed the trembling hearts of traders nursing margin calls and existential crises?
Ripple (XRP) flutters at $2.0840, a 43% tumble from its peak. The crypto market’s latest tantrum has XRP playing the role of the jilted lover in a love triangle with inflation, regulation, and the Fed’s red pen.