Well, butter my biscuit! The folks over at Coinbase are sounding the alarm again, and this time it’s not about your aunt’s questionable NFT collection. David Duong, the big cheese in Coinbase’s research department, reckons quantum computers are plotting to upend Bitcoin’s apple cart. Not just your wallet, mind you-the whole shebang! Network, mining, the works. It’s like a tornado in a teacup, but with more zeros and ones. 🌪️💻
Let us recount the tale. For weeks, the bulls had paraded near $94,000, their banners flapping like purposeful pigeons, only to be summarily dispatched. The longs, those fragile souls who bet their futures on upward trajectories, watched their accounts dissolve into a smoldering heap of decimal points. Meanwhile, the ETFs-a modernist alchemy of trust and tragedy-shifted from inflows to outflows, shedding $243 million like a scolded child abandoning a trail ofат crackers. The folly! The repetition of cycles older than the internet itself.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform is already in “full production,” unveiling fresh details at CES in Las Vegas about hardware that he says can deliver five times the artificial-intelligence computing of Nvidia’s previous systems. Because who needs sleep when you can just upgrade your AI? 😴
This sudden reprieve means that, for the present, firms hefty in digital assets can continue to parade themselves within the grand halls of investment. Even if Bitcoin (BTC), that most unpredictable of assets, accounts for more than half of their holdings-what a spectacle! The likes of Strategy, the largest holder of Bitcoin, breathe a sigh of relief, as their impending exile is temporarily postponed.
According to Charles Edwards, the genius behind Capriole Investments, it’s official: institutions have decided to romance Bitcoin once more. And he even shared a chart on X that looks fancier than my high school yearbook photo! 📈
Major financial institutions are rapidly escalating their involvement in crypto as strategic priorities shift across Wall Street. A senior industry executive shared on social media platform X on Jan. 6, 2026, that large banks and asset managers are no longer proceeding cautiously and are now committing resources at scale. 🤯💸
John Carter, the crypto market’s resident Nostradamus, has taken to X (formerly Twitter, because why not?) to share his latest masterpiece: a chart so intricate it could double as modern art. 🎨 According to Carter, Ethereum is teetering on the edge of a Broadening Wedge pattern-yes, that’s a thing-like a tightrope walker in a windstorm. 🌪️ The price is hovering near a technical level so critical, it’s basically the crypto equivalent of a cliffhanger in a Netflix series. 🍿
Behold! Spot XRP ETFs, those golden geese of Wall Street, gobbled up $48 million in two days-more than a Parisian pastry shop’s annual revenue. Over eight weeks, they’ve swanned in with $1.23 billion, turning skeptics into believers faster than a Musk tweet at midnight.
In a blog post dripping with the gravitas of a soothsayer, Hayes fixates on the price of American gasoline. Should the national average surge by more than 10% in the three months preceding an election, compared to the halcyon days of January, the political pendulum swings with the inevitability of a clockwork orange. 🕰️🔄
Like a phoenix from the ashes, TAO has risen to heights not seen in weeks! Trading volumes have exploded, surpassing an impressive $230 million in just 24 hours! Investors, those intrepid souls, are reacting to the siren song of institutional interest in AI-linked crypto treasures, especially those with a charm of limited supply growth. The plot thickens! 🎭
