Crypto soothsayer

Short-term BTC holders are capitulating Over 28,600 BTC (≈ $2.98B) were recently sent to exchanges at a loss by short-term holders. 💵 This signals classic capitulation behavior — investors panic-selling after buying higher. Historically, such waves often mark the late stage of a correction 👀

Point of view: Why does crypto never build anything lasting? 🧐 The industry lives in an endless 18-month loop: Narrative → Capital → Death. ☠️ NFTs in 2021, DeFi in 2022, AI agents in 2023–24, and now prediction markets — projects keep pivoting just to survive. Real infrastructure takes 3–5 years, but attention and funding vanish in months. 💸 VCs chase hype, not completion. They fund hot ideas, not finished products — because an unfinished one still has “infinite potential.” Pivoting has become a business model. 👨‍💻 Only Bitcoin and Ethereum were built outside this hype machine. Today, whoever markets faster wins — even if the code is worse. Crypto doesn’t reward builders. It rewards storytellers 📖

😳 AI traders got wrecked! The AI Trading Showdown has ended — six neural networks competed, each starting with $10,000 to trade crypto. The results are… brutal 💸 🔸 Qwen – $12,231 🔸 DeepSeek – $10,489 🔸 Claude – $6,912 🔸 Grok – $5,469 🔸 Gemini – $4,329 🔸 ChatGPT – $3,733 DeepSeek lost half its capital in a week after leading early on, while Qwen took the crown. 👑 The rest? Let’s just say AI still hasn’t figured out how to beat the market 😅

📉 Bitcoin flash crash below $105K! BTC plunged under $105,000, triggering a wave of liquidations as many altcoins hit new lows since October 11. 💣 In the past 24 hours, over $1.19B in long positions were liquidated — including a $48M BTC/USDT long from a whale on HTX wiped out in a single order 😬 😱 The Fear & Greed Index has dropped to 21 — Extreme Fear.

💀 Bitcoin has “died” 446 times — and still keeps rising from the grave According to media and financial “experts,” BTC has been declared dead 446 times 😅 But here’s the twist: if you had invested just $100 every time they buried Bitcoin, your portfolio would now be worth around $115 million 💰 And what’s the conclusion? — The more obituaries, the stronger the resurrection ⚡️

🍔 Steak ’n Shake goes full Bitcoin! The fast-food chain has announced the creation of a strategic Bitcoin reserve — all BTC payments will now go straight into it 😎 💰 On top of that, for the next 12 months, the company will donate 210 satoshis from every BTC-paid meal to the Open Sats Initiative — supporting open-source Bitcoin development. Looks like burgers just got a little more decentralized 🍟🧡

🇹🇷 Ex-crypto CEO found dead in Turkish prison Faruk Fatih Özer, founder and former CEO of the Thodex exchange, was found hanged in his cell in a high-security prison in Tekirdağ, according to Bloomberg and TRT. Preliminary reports point to suicide, with an investigation underway. 🧩 Who was he? The man behind Thodex, the exchange that collapsed in 2021, locking users out of their funds and triggering an Interpol red notice. ⚖️ In 2023, he was sentenced to a staggering 11,196 years in prison (!!! 🤯) for fraud, money laundering, and running a criminal organization. Today’s news closes one of Turkey’s most infamous crypto scandals — and raises new questions about what really happened behind bars 👀

⚠️ Balancer reportedly hacked! Crypto X is buzzing with reports of a major exploit targeting the Balancer protocol. 🫣 According to on-chain data from Nansen, over $70M worth of wrapped ETH and other assets were drained from Balancer’s treasury wallet. Markets are down, hacks are up — just another perfect Monday in crypto 😞

📉 When’s the peak already?! 👀 The S&P 500 rally is starting to look like the dot-com bubble 2.0 — the index is flying high mainly thanks to Nvidia and other big tech giants. Proof? It recently rose even on a day when 80% of its companies were in the red 🤯 If market cycles stay aligned, a major correction could hit in fall 2026, right around the U.S. midterms — and a full-blown AI bubble crash might come in fall 2027 😬 💣 That’s bad news for crypto too: Bitcoin keeps following the S&P instead of its 4-year rhythm, while altcoins mostly bleed (except a lucky few). Meanwhile, Warren Buffett keeps waiting patiently — his cash pile has reached a record $382B. When the Oracle of Omaha hoards cash, you know something big’s coming 💵🤔

📉 Bitcoin ends October in the red — for the first time since 2018! The monthly decline broke a six-year streak of positive Octobers. 👀 Back in 2018, a similar drop was followed by an additional 36% correction in November 😬

💲 Tether outperforms most global banks 👀 📝According to its new report for the first three quarters of 2025, the USDT issuer continues to break records: • Profit: over $10B since the start of the year • Circulating supply: $183B USDT • U.S. Treasuries: $135B, making Tether the 17th largest holder of U.S. debt — ahead of South Korea • Users: more than 500M worldwide • Reserves: $12.9B in gold and $9.9B in BTC (≈13% of total reserves) Tether’s rapid growth cements its role as a key player at the intersection of crypto and traditional finance.💵

🏆 PlanB is back with bold predictions! The creator of the famous (and now struggling) Stock-to-Flow model believes Bitcoin’s market cap could one day match gold’s — around $30 trillion. 💵 His reasoning: BTC’s increasing scarcity and growing recognition as a global store of value. In his view, digital gold will soon stand shoulder to shoulder with the real one. 💰⚡️

⚠️ Glassnode warns of a possible Bitcoin correction to $88,000 🗝 BTC failed to hold above the key $113,000 level — the average cost basis for short-term holders. Without reclaiming it, selling pressure may continue to grow. Long-term investors sold ~104,000 BTC ($11.1B) this month — the largest outflow since July — while short-term holders are locking in losses. 🤷 Analysts say if recovery doesn’t happen soon, $88,000 could be the next major support zone. 📉

🎂 Happy 17th Birthday, Bitcoin Whitepaper! On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the now-legendary paper describing a peer-to-peer electronic cash system — the blueprint that changed global finance forever. 🌍💻 17 years later, Bitcoin remains the symbol of decentralization and digital freedom. From a simple PDF to a $2T market — not bad for a Halloween drop. 🎃💰

📈 Zcash (ZEC) has officially surpassed Monero (XMR) by market capitalization! ZEC hit $381, exceeding its 2021 high (~$370) and bringing its market cap to $6.25B, compared to $5.9B for XMR. 🧐 The key difference lies in regulation: Zcash offers optional privacy, allowing it to remain listed on major exchanges, while Monero’s default privacy settings have led to delistings and lower liquidity. 😎 After trading near $25 at the start of the year, ZEC has surged nearly 900% since September — one of the strongest performances among top cryptocurrencies in 2025. 🚀

📊 Since 2013, NVIDIA and Bitcoin have moved almost in sync — but now the chip giant has pulled far ahead: $5T vs $2T. Some analysts see this as a bullish divergence, hinting that BTC could soon catch up. 📈 Others warn of the opposite — a potential AI bubble ready to burst, which could drag both assets down.💥📉

🩸 October is shaping up to be a “red” month for Bitcoin, currently down -2.69%. If this trend holds, it would be only the third negative October in BTC’s history. 🧐 A reminder that sometimes autumn brings not just falling leaves 🍂, but falling prices too.

🚀 Ethereum activity hits record highs — both transaction count and number of active addresses have reached new all-time records 🔥 Despite the surge in on-chain activity, gas fees remain near historical lows, showing how much the network has scaled and optimized. Looks like Ethereum is busier than ever — but cheaper to use than it’s ever been. 💪

↗️ Tether has become the 17th largest holder of U.S. government debt, surpassing South Korea 🇰🇷 According to CEO Paolo Ardoino, the company now holds $135 billion in U.S. Treasury bills — a massive amount even by sovereign standards. 💰 Next on the list is Brazil 🇧🇷. 💵 The stablecoin giant is rapidly turning into a major player in the U.S. debt market — another sign of crypto’s growing influence on global finance.

💻📈 Bitcoin mining difficulty hits a new all-time high — 155.97 trillion! Now miners must compute roughly 155 trillion hashes to find a single block and earn the 3.125 BTC reward (≈ $346K at current prices). 🧐 ⚙️ The rising difficulty shows the network’s record-level security and competition — mining has never been tougher, or more expensive.