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🤖 Humans Lose to AI in Trading Tournament In Aster’s humans vs AI trading battle real traders ended with a brutal minus 32.21 percent and around 225K in losses while AI agents limited the damage to just minus 4.48 percent or about 13K Turns out the machines panic less when the chart goes red 🤖

📊 Bitcoin Mirrors the End of 2022 Analyst Timothy Peterson says Bitcoin’s current price action looks a lot like late 2022 when BTC sat near 16K with December weakness and long consolidation. If the seasonal pattern repeats momentum could flip after January 7 just like in early 2023 History doesn’t repeat but it keeps leaving hints 👍

🏆 VanEck Sees Gold at 5K and Bitcoin Catching Up VanEck’s head of multi asset solutions says gold could climb to 5 000 dollars next year. He also notes Bitcoin has lagged the Nasdaq 100 by roughly 50 percent this year a gap that could set BTC up as one of 2026’s top performers When lag turns into fuel 🏆

🫡 GM!

🥂 Gate closing the year like chill season isn’t real: 🔼Red Bull Racing Boxie stickers - 11× oversubscribed, even JPEGs have FOMO now 🔼Gate Charity in Benin - Christmas toy distribution done, real-world impact > charts 🔼Points Airdrop #131 - claim 15 or 50 CYS, clicking never takes holidays 🔼STABLE trading competition - 7,333,334 STABLE split among the grinders 🔼Japan–Korea Winter Series 2026 - offline brand expansion arc unlocked 🔼Dr. Han makes EM’s Top 100 (2025) - founder prestige upgrade 🔼Futures Points Airdrop #48 - ~$44 per user, faucet officially unhinged 🔼Futures Points Carnival - trade, earn double points, degeneracy incentivized 🔼CandyDrop Airdrop 8.0 - holiday mode activated with a 30 ETH giveaway Gate builds the machine. Execution continues ⌨️

😨 Miner Capitulation Signal? VanEck points to the biggest monthly BTC hashrate drop since April 2024. This often signals miner capitulation. Historically, after such drops, BTC bounced within 90 days in 65% of cases Pain now. Stats say bounce later 🔫

👊 IMF vs El Salvador on Bitcoin IMF says El Salvador stopped its Bitcoin experiment. No public buys, Chivo wallet phased out, reserves just internal moves. But the Bitcoin Office says they still buy 1 BTC per day. Holdings now 7,500+ BTC, IMF or not Official statements. Unofficial stacking 😁

🥖 Satoshi Opened a Bakery After the crash, Satoshi gave up charts. Now it’s bread not blocks. Still proof of work, just edible Bullish on carbs ☕️

👀 2025 Returns Reality Check Hard assets ate first. Risk assets waited 🚽

🤔 Fundstrat Split Personality for 2026 A leaked Fundstrat outlook warns of a major crypto correction in early 2026. Targets: BTC $60–65K, ETH $1.8–2K, SOL $50–75. Meanwhile Tom Lee says BTC $250K soon and ETH deeply undervalued Even the analysts can’t agree 🤓

🕺 Arthur Hayes Says Altseason Never Left Hayes says altseason didn’t disappear people just missed it by buying the same old coins and waiting for past cycles to repeat. The market rewards those who hunt for what’s new not what already pumped with examples like Hyperliquid and Solana Altseason happened you just weren’t holding it 😁

🙃 CryptoPunks Enter the Museum MoMA in New York added 8 CryptoPunks to its permanent collection. Donated by the community, not bought. NFTs just became official art history From JPEGs to museum walls 🙄

🍸 BlackRock: Bitcoin Is One of the Biggest Bets of the Year $12T giant BlackRock says Bitcoin is one of the biggest investments this year. Not a side play. Not an experiment Wall Street locked in 🖕

💸 Bitcoin for $7 From a Vending Machine Back in 2012, a vending machine sold Casascius coins for $7 each. No KYC. No charts. Just coins and regret Time travel was cheaper back then 🚶‍♂️

🍷 RedotPay raised $107 million in a Series B round to develop a digital asset payment infrastructure using blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies

💥 Whale Dumps PUMP at a Massive Loss Wallet 3QB9kH accumulated 3.8B PUMP worth 19.5M dollars on Binance between September 12 and November 4 at an average price of 0.00513. He later sent all tokens to FalconX to sell ending up with just 7.3M and locking in a loss of over 12M or minus 62 percent Even whales sometimes learn the hard way 💥