Mayor goes viral wearing Quagsire hat at Pokemon bus launch

by

A new bus featuring Pokemon characters and local sights has been launched in Shimanto, Japan. It’s intended for both people who live there and visitors, and quickly became popular online, partly because the mayor wore a Pokemon-themed hat at the unveiling.

MemeCore’s Insider Shenanigans: ZachXBT Calls Their Bluff!

by

ZachXBT, the fellow who’s more at home sniffing out dodgy dealings than a bloodhound in a butcher’s shop, has raised a quizzical eyebrow at MemeCore’s token distribution. Apparently, over 90% of the supply is clutched in the sweaty palms of a select few, leaving the rest of us poor saps to scramble for the crumbs. It’s enough to make one long for the simplicity of a game of bridge at the Drones Club.

Bitcoin’s $7.9B Options Nightmare: Will 75,000 Be the End?

by

The $7.9 billion in option contracts is set to expire on Deribit this Friday, with the shadowy figures of $62,000 and $75,000 standing like stagehands in the spotlight. According to Glassnode, the $75,000 strike is the favorite haunt of bullish wizards, with roughly $395 million in call open interest – that’s the dollar‑value of how many “potential” orders are clinging to the high ledge.

Dollar Stablecoins: The Financial Farce That Could Topple the World

by

Pablo Hernández de Cos, the top chap at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), was holding forth at a Bank of Japan seminar in Tokyo on Monday. He declared, with all the gravitas of a man who’s just discovered his caddy has been pilfering his golf balls, that these U.S. dollar-denominated tokens could have “material consequences” for global economic policy. Dash it all, the man’s got a point!