Bitmine’s Bold ETH Bet: $1.37B Staked as 2025 Fizzles Out 🎲💰

Ah, Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the darling of the crypto world, has once again flexed its financial muscles by expanding its Ethereum staking to a cool $1.37 billion. On December 31, no less-what a way to ring in the new year! 🥂🎉 The additional $352 million worth of Ether staking underscores their unshakable faith in Ethereum, even as the crypto market throws its annual hissy fit at year’s end. 2025, you’ve been a trial, darling.

Cardano’s Grand Ballet: Will the Treasury Waltz or Stumble? 💃🕺

ADA/USDT Chart

In a missive on X, EMURGO proclaimed with the gravity of a soothsayer that the action passed with “6 out of 7 Constitutional Committee approval and over 85% DRep support.” A near-unanimous verdict, one might say, though one wonders what the seventh committee member was sipping during the vote. 🍷 “With the BIA complete,” they intoned, “focus now shifts to the Treasury Withdrawal Action.” Ah, the Treasury Withdrawal Action! The moment when intent becomes reality, and reality, as we know, is often a harsh mistress. 🤑

Fed Predicts Doom, Dinners, and 2% Inflation by 2028 😱🍝

A meandering line chart symbolizing existential dread

Growth proceeds, though not with the vim of a young cavalry officer, but rather the weary shuffle of a civil servant approaching early retirement. The labor market, they say, is slowing-perhaps overwhelmed by the sheer boredom of existing under such scrutiny. Wages, bless their hearts, are continuing to advance at a pace roughly comparable to a sleepy snail on a mild Tuesday. 🐌💸

Rial Meltdown! Can Bitcoin Save Iran from Economic Chaos? 😱

Protesters, their breath visible in the cold air, clashed with tear gas and bureaucracy alike. The message was clear: when governments play god with money, citizens pay the price. It’s a timeless tragedy, really-just swap out the peasants for pensioners and the guillotine for inflation. 🎭

The Bureaucratic Departure of the Crypto Sibyl 🏛️📜

On the first Monday of the last week of 2023, it was whispered through the halls that the SEC had seen fit to release the illustrious LaMothe from her duties. Having fortified the bastions as Deputy Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, she now gracefully exits, leaving tales of memecoins, stakings, and seven speeches that reshaped the crypto realm in her wake. 📢🧩

4.4M Pi Coins Vanished! 🤯

The scheme, which exploits the shockingly transparent nature of blockchain data (honestly, who thought that was a good idea?), involves prompting people to “approve” transfers of their Pi to entities best described as ‘less-than-scrupulous’. The Pi Core Team, in a move that suggests they’ve finally noticed, has temporarily disabled payment requests. It’s like trying to put a cork in a sentient ocean of digital mischief. 🌊

Fed’s FOMC Minutes: Rates Stay High, Crypto Struggles 🚀💸

The December minutes, oh how they speak of hesitation! The Federal Reserve, having delivered a rate cut, now seems content to let the market stew in its own juices. Several officials, with the fervor of monks in a monastery, declared that holding rates steady for a while would allow time to measure the delayed impact of earlier easing-though one might argue that “delayed” is a polite way of saying “completely ignored.” While markets had already ruled out a January cut, the minutes also dampened hopes for a quick move in early 2026, leaving investors to ponder whether the Fed’s patience is a virtue or a vice. 🧐

Bitcoin: Uh Oh! 😱

Apparently, this “Supply in Profit” thingie, which tracks who’s making shekels and who’s losing them, is kinda wonky. It’s gone down faster than a matzo ball in hot soup from a whopping 19 million BTC to a measly 13.2 million BTC! Big gap, big problems, you get the picture. It’s like the difference between a full plate of brisket and a radish!