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🧸 Crypto Fear & Greed at Extreme Fear (24) The market is sitting at 24, signaling Extreme Fear. CZ reminds everyone: “It’s better to sell when there is maximum greed, and buy when there is maximum fear.” 🤷‍♂️ Meanwhile, Bitcoin has bounced back to $87,000 after dipping to $85,000 yesterday. 📈 Are you ready to buy when the market is scared? 👀

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📉 The crypto market ends the month deep in the red Bitcoin closed November with a significant drop, losing nearly 18% over the month — definitely not the “growth” we were hoping for 🥴 Ethereum fared even worse, falling over 21% in the same period. 🙀

😏 Elon Musk: Energy is the only real currency — and that’s why Bitcoin works Key points from the interview: 🔸 Energy is the only true currency — it can’t be printed or mandated by law. That’s why, according to Musk, Bitcoin is built on energy. 🔸 In the future, AI + robots will eliminate scarcity, making traditional money obsolete — but energy will remain the core measure of value. 🔸 Systems based on energy have real, physical value, unlike fiat money backed only by trust. Musk once again hints that Bitcoin’s strength comes from physics, not politics.

📉 New month, new dump The first day of winter kicked off with another market drop: ▪️BTC ~ $86,500 ▪️ETH ~ $2,841 ▪️SOL ~ $127 What’s notable is the lack of major negative news. 👀 The only thing is that China tightened its policy toward cryptocurrencies, but this became known back on Saturday and didn’t trigger an immediate reaction. 🤷 It seems the market is once again showing that it doesn’t always need a reason to drop sharply — weak liquidity and a nervous open-interest structure are more than enough. 🤔

📉 Tom Lee softens his Bitcoin target — but stays bullish Tom Lee has revised his year-end BTC forecast from $250k to $100k+ (🎥 original interview). He still believes Bitcoin can set a new ATH before December ends. 🚀 Key points from the interview: • 10 October was “crypto Armageddon” — a pricing glitch triggered the largest mass auto-liquidation event in BTC history. Nearly 2M accounts were wiped, and one-third of market makers vanished. • Because of this crash, crypto lost its role as a leading market indicator. Now it lags behind, while AI stocks have taken the lead. • Despite the chaos, Lee insists the market remains bullish — Bitcoin typically makes its strongest moves in just 10 days per year, and those “best days” may still lie ahead.

🗝 Glassnode: BTC needs to break key supply clusters to regain momentum 🔎 Glassnode reports that Bitcoin’s path to a new all-time high depends on overcoming major supply clusters formed by recent large buyers. The closest resistance zones are located at $93,000–$96,000 and $100,000–$108,000 — levels where many investors previously bought BTC and may look to take profit. 🧐 A clean breakout above these clusters could restore bullish momentum and open the way to new highs. 🚀

🥏 XRP reserves are shrinking fast Following the launch hype around a potential XRP ETF, Binance’s XRP reserves are dropping sharply (CryptoQuant) 🔽 Holdings have fallen to ~2.7B XRP — one of the lowest levels ever recorded on the exchange. 🔽 Since October 6, users have withdrawn roughly 300M XRP.

📊 Bitcoin stalls near $91,000 — CryptoQuant CEO turns cautious Bitcoin is stuck around $91k, and CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju isn’t feeling too optimistic. 👀 According to him, on-chain indicators now point to a bearish trend, and any further upside for BTC will depend entirely on macro liquidity. 🏦 In simple terms: if global markets get pumped with fresh money again — Bitcoin still has room to grow. If not… the chart may stay heavy for a while.

💶 Tether fully retires EUR₮ Tether has officially completed the shutdown of its EUR₮ stablecoin. The token’s issuance was halted back in 2022, and now the company has ended all redemptions across every network. 🧐 ПUsers were given a full year to swap their EUR₮ for euros directly with Tether — today that window is closed. ❗️Any EUR₮ that wasn’t redeemed before the deadline will continue to circulate, but without a guaranteed 1:1 exchange. In other words, the remaining tokens are now essentially illiquid assets with no backing.

🎲 BTC Margin Trading Hits All-Time High The volume of margin trading on Bitcoin has surged to a new absolute record over the past four months. 🚀 More and more traders are jumping into futures, hoping to get rich off just a few lucky trades — market greed and risk-taking are now at peak levels. 🤷

💰Vitalik Buterin Donates $390K to Encrypted Messengers Vitalik Buterin has donated 128 ETH (≈$390K) each to secure-messaging apps Session and SimpleX. He calls end-to-end encryption a key pillar of digital privacy and highlights two critical areas that need progress: account creation without platform approval and strong metadata protection. 📤 Vitalik says current messengers still lack both true security and usability. Full metadata protection requires decentralization — a hard but necessary step, especially with multi-device support and resistance to attacks without phone numbers. 😎 He urges developers to keep building privacy-focused tools and encourages users to actually install and use them.

🇰🇷 $37M hack hits Upbit — just one day after its $10B acquisition deal South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit halted deposits and withdrawals after detecting an unauthorized transfer of $37M in Solana-based assets to an external wallet. 🥷 The exchange assured users all losses will be covered. 🕘 The timing is wild: the hack happened 24 hours after tech giant Naver announced its plan to acquire Upbit for $10.3B. Naver also confirmed a massive $6.8B investment into AI and blockchain over the next five years — and considers Upbit a key piece of its fintech and crypto strategy. Upbit remains the dominant exchange in Korea, with KRW trading volumes rivaling USD markets (excluding stablecoins), making South Korea the second-largest crypto market in the world.

S&P has downgraded Tether’s rating from 4 to 5 — the lowest possible 👀 Reasons: 🔶 high risks related to reserve assets 🔶 gaps in transparency and disclosures 🔶 lack of a reliable regulatory framework 🔶 no proper asset segregation 🔶 limitations on priority redemptions

📈 Bitcoin is back above $90k — and altcoins are waking up too With the market turning green, Arthur Hayes immediately jumped back into altcoins — despite his loud macro “doom” narratives. 📊 🔎 According to Arkham, over the past 6 hours Hayes bought: • 2.87M ENA ($818.4k) • 218k PENDLE ($590.7k) • 331k ETHFI ($255.1k) Funny detail: he’s acting just like the crowd — selling the bottom, buying the pump. A week ago he dumped over $8.2M worth of alts before the rally even started. Markets teach everyone the same lesson 😅

📊 Tether quietly became the world’s biggest gold buyer last quarter According to fresh data, Tether purchased more gold in the last quarter than any central bank worldwide. 👀 The move highlights the company’s growing diversification strategy: alongside USDT reserves and Bitcoin holdings, Tether is now aggressively expanding into gold as a protective, value-preserving asset. 💵

📊 Solana ETF Shows Steady Inflows Only Since trading began, the spot Solana ETF hasn’t recorded a single day of outflows — a rare show of consistent investor confidence. Yes, the fund inflows are still tiny compared to Ethereum ETFs, let alone Bitcoin ETFs. But the fact that Solana manages to hold only inflows at this early stage is a strong signal of market interest. SOL continues to prove it’s not just hype — institutions are paying attention 👀✨

📤 Strategy Shifts Its BTC Holdings Strategy has decided to diversify its storage setup and moved 58,390 BTC (~$5.1B) to Fidelity Custody. 🧐 Fidelity uses an omnibus custody model — client assets are pooled together. So Strategy’s BTC is now mixed with holdings of other Fidelity clients, effectively placing part of Strategy’s reserves under Fidelity’s direct control. This raises a big question: what motivated such a major custody shift? 🤨 Regulatory pressure? Security reasons? Operational convenience? The market is watching.

CryptoQuant spots possible BTC price manipulation on Bybit 🧐 Analysts at CryptoQuant recorded unusual trading behavior on Bybit’s BTCUSD Inverse contract. Someone is executing rapid-fire micro-trades — about 50 transactions per second worth $5 each. 🙀 Such activity can artificially nudge short-term price movements or liquidity signals, potentially impacting market perception. 🤔