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Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and current CIO of Maelstrom, frames this crypto resurgence as a grand macro liquidity play, propelled by the trifecta of fiscal folly: AI arms races, military escalations, and the global abandonment of just-in-time supply chains. “The bull market began in earnest when the US attacked Iran on February 28th,” he writes, as if geopolitical chaos is merely a prelude to crypto gains. One might ask how exactly a missile strike catalyzes blockchain adoption, but Hayes, ever the optimist, has already moved on to the next point.

These statements were made just before President Trump left for an important trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

But Strategy, that enigmatic beast, kept its mouth shut, leaving the debate to fester like a wound in the sun. Meanwhile, the company’s STRC program, a peculiar contraption of shares and Bitcoin, swelled with $206 million, as if the market itself had taken a sip of the Kool-Aid.

The saga began when Viktor, a trader with the dramatic flair of a Shakespearean actor, posted a chart so dire, it could make a goldfish weep. “Behold!” he cried, “This is a textbook second-top setup! ZEC is doomed to fail, just like ENA, APT, and that one meme coin that promised to revolutionize cat videos!” He even added a sprinkle of sarcasm: “A 5x-10x move? Possible? Not impossible… but unlikely. Like expecting a penguin to win the Tour de France.”

Breakouts above $82,000? Attempted, but with the enthusiasm of a bureaucrat on a Monday morning. Volume, that raucous chorus, fails to swell. RSI, the critic in the corner, murmurs in the low-60s-bullish, but hardly a standing ovation. Consolidation, it seems, is the intermission before the finale.

the absence of privacy (a flaw as glaring as a naked emperor), Bitcoin’s love affair with tech stocks (a relationship as stable as a house of cards in a hurricane), and its market size, which pales in comparison to gold’s imperial grandeur.

In this grand theater of the absurd, Binance, the self-proclaimed guardian of the crypto realm, wages war against the very technology that threatens it. With a flourish of its digital cape, it boasts of preventing $10.53 billion in user losses between early 2025 and March 2026. Five million souls, it claims, were shielded from the clutches of deceit. A blog post, no less, was their trumpet of victory. Oh, the drama!

Well, butter my biscuit and call me disappointed. Legend, the decentralized finance app that swore it would make crypto as mainstream as Netflix, has decided to call it quits after a two-year rollercoaster of “almosts” and “not quites.”

• Key Takeaways:

• Cryptoquant’s Bull-Bear Cycle Indicator turned green for the first time since March 2023 on May 12. A momentous occasion, akin to a serf declaring himself a prince, though one must wonder if the crown is made of gold or mere fool’s glitter.
• The March 2023 signal preceded a bull run that took bitcoin above $73,000, but a 2022 false signal warrants caution. Ah, the cruel jest of history-when the wolf comes, it is often dressed in sheep’s clothing, or in this case, a green light.
• April spot ETF inflows hit $2.44B, and whale accumulation has grown, adding weight to the bullish read. One might say the whales are swimming toward the shore, eager to bask in the sun of a potential bull market-though the ocean is as treacherous as ever.

Posting on X, Kamath explained that the world still runs on the dollar but pointed to a quiet shift happening underneath. Countries are buying gold, trading in non-dollar currency pairs, and building payment infrastructure outside SWIFT. India’s own UPI system, he said, has been an exceptional example of building independent financial rails.