The Crypto Assets Task Force at the SEC isn’t messing around. They’re waving a big red flag that by 2028, these quantum beasts could go all “Terminator” on our beloved blockchain protocols. The stuff that’s supposedly “unhackable” might as well be a piñata at a toddler’s birthday party soon.
Enter Axel Adler, the Cassandra of crypto metrics, armed with insights from the Bitcoin UTXO Age Metrics. His findings? Long-term holders (LTHs), those venerable sages of the blockchain, are now behaving like teenagers at a garage sale-offloading their prized possessions to anyone foolish enough to buy them 🛒. Historically, such behavior has heralded periods of downside pressure, as the market struggles to absorb the influx of long-held coins. It seems even the most stoic hodlers cannot resist the siren call of profit-taking when prices flirt with all-time highs.
And yet, beyond the shallow thrills of technical analysis, something rather tragic brews: XRP’s payments activity, once lively and numerous like guests at a provincial wedding, has shriveled by over 70% in a month. On September 8, 2025, only 221,000 daily transactions shuffled between accounts-down from a boisterous 750,000 in August, as reported by the ever-dour XRP Ledger. One must ask, with a sigh: what good is a coin that no one bothers to pass around? Somewhere, a ledger weeps quietly. 📚😢
The open letter, crafted on X from Leonidas, host of The Ordinal Show-much like an edgy playwright crafting a polemic-burst forth this past Saturday amidst a high drama within the Bitcoin community. Here lies a battleground of ideologies: should node validators nurture peer-to-peer financial transactions while casting aside-or at least disregarding-those gargantuan data transactions, akin to a bulky antique radio squashing the room’s aesthetic, known as pictures, videos, or documents, which detractors decry as mere spam?
According to whispers carried by the Hong Kong Economic Journal (because who doesn’t love a good financial gossip?), no fewer than 77 institutions have already raised their hands like eager schoolchildren, clamoring for a chance at this shiny new toy. ICBC (Asia) has donned its application hat alongside BOC Hong Kong, while HSBC-ever the overachiever-has also sauntered into the fray with all the nonchalance of a cat deciding whether or not to grace you with its presence 🐱.
On the daily chart shared by analysts (who may or may not have had too much coffee), we see what appears to be a bull flag formation-an elegant signal of upward ambition if you squint just right. The price action tightens like a corset at a ball, highs and lows inching closer together as though engaged in polite conversation. Is this consolidation building momentum for a breakout? Or merely the market catching its breath before another nap? Ah, the suspense is thicker than porridge on a winter morning! 🥶
The drama began when the infamous YouTuber Clive Thompson made a splash, alleging that Tether’s quarterly attestations revealed a mass Bitcoin sell-off. According to Clive’s impeccable “math,” Tether’s stash had dwindled from a robust 92,650 BTC in Q1 to a mere 83,274 BTC by Q2 of 2025. Cue the Twitter frenzy: had Tether secretly decided to offload their precious Bitcoin while everyone else was busy hoarding their sats? 🤔
While Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has pulled back recently, it remains much higher than the year-to-date low. A minor stumble for a digital asset that’s mastered the art of being both a speculative gamble and a store of value. Meanwhile, Bitcoin ETFs continue to add assets this year, with their cumulative inflows rising by $54 billion since January last year. One wonders if the inflows are from investors or just confused algorithms. 🤖
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Bitwise, WisdomTree, and six other “crypto gurus” are playing dress-up with their S-1 filings, all eyeing October like it’s the last slice of pizza at a party. The SEC’s recent Ripple dismissal? Just a warm-up act for this ETF circus. 🎪
