In the twilight of November 17th, the crypto economy, once a proud colossus, stumbled like a drunken bear. Its market capitalization shrank to $3.15 trillion, a victim of global market hysteria. The culprit? Whispers of an AI bubble, amplified by Pichai’s admission of “irrationality” in the AI boom. Ah, irrationality-the very essence of human endeavor! 🤪
Think about it-crypto wasn’t the big risk anymore, so now they’re saying, “Hey, just keep doing what you’re doing, but maybe, I dunno, don’t blow up the market?” Typical. They’re still kinda watching, sniffing around, but hey, the regulatory climate’s apparently less fiery than before. Growth? Maybe. More regulation? Sure. But for now, crypto’s like that fur-covered cat under a blanket-present but not a priority. 🐱💸
Yet, as the old adage goes, “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” and here we are, faced with conflicting signals that dance like shadows in the candlelight, leaving investors to ponder whether they are on the brink of salvation or damnation. 🤷♂️
Listen, the decentralized web sounds great in theory. Until it isn’t. Because as long as the internet isn’t on fire, no one cares. But then-BAM!-AWS implodes, and suddenly everyone’s a philosopher. “What if the internet’s just… too centralized?” they muse, as if they’d discovered gravity mid-freefall. 🍌
El Salvador is actively buying the dip. In addition to its daily 1 $BTC purchases, the government just bought an extra 1,090.19 $BTC ($101M) an hour ago. This is according to data provided by Lookonchain. This is a big step in its continued Bitcoin strategy. 🤷♂️
Bitcoin (BTC), the mighty ruler of the crypto kingdom, took a nosedive from $95,903 to $89,455, a level we haven’t seen since April. By the time I’m writing this, it’s clawing its way back up to $89,812, but it’s still down a solid 5.1% in the last 24 hours, and a whopping 28.6% from its glorious high of $126,080 just six weeks ago. Ouch, that’s gotta sting.
“Even underwater,” crooned Vincent Liu, CIO of Kronos Research, “most ETF holders are long-term allocators.” Translation: They’re too stubborn to sell and too lazy to Google how to withdraw. A risk-off environment? Think of it as crypto’s spa day-liquidity dries up, macroscopic vibes loom, and dollar bills cry themselves to sleep. 🛁
In a move that’s got more eyebrows raised than a room full of quizzical dwarfs, Peter Thiel’s Macro LLC hedge fund has filed to sell off all its Nvidia stock in Q3. Sure, the fund’s smaller than a gnome’s pocket, but it’s the signal that’s got Wall Street whispering like a coven of gossiping witches. 🧙♀️✨
Bid farewell to the fair vaulting dream of Bitcoin being valued in any pleasant manner based on the cosmic arithmetic of mining energy costs, as proclaimed by the erudite seers immersed in cryptocurrency production economics. The gap between market prices and this theoretical valuation yawns like a maw wide at a banquet of expenses. 🎩
The Division of Examinations, in their wisdom, have released their priorities for the coming fiscal year – concluding, rather conveniently, on the 30th of September, 2026 – and have elected to entirely overlook the bubbling cauldron of crypto innovation. One wonders if this is a case of selective vision, or perhaps a deliberate disregard for matters too…modern?
