Romania’s National Office for Gambling, a bureaucratic colossus with a fondness for paperwork, has declared war on Polymarket. The platform, led by the indomitable Shayne Coplan, now finds itself blacklisted for daring to gamble without a permit. Go figure.
These liquidity love letters from central banks signal what traders call a “turning point” for risk assets. Bitcoin, that mercurial diva of the crypto world, watches with bated breath. Will it be the star of the 2026 show or merely a footnote in the annals of financial theater? 🎭💸
XRP, the token of the Ripple network, waltzes higher with a 0.3% 24-hour lift, trapped in a $2.48-$2.53 band. Market cap nears $150.4 billion, while volume hums at $1.99 billion-enough to fund a very extravagant Molière play.
A stir, naturally, erupted amongst the huddled masses of the crypto community. CZ rarely bothers to announce such pedestrian transactions. It’s not as if he’s a common trader, you understand. No, no. It’s… different when he does it. Like a Tsar choosing to buy a pickle.
The so-called “Bitcoin Historian,” Pete Rizzo, chimed in with a snippet of this financial fandango, predicting that Bitcoin might soar to a staggering $3 million. 🤑 Rizzo, ever the archivist of digital dreams, shared Lee’s musings on Bitcoin and Ethereum’s golden destiny. In Lee’s words, as gold climbs, so too shall Bitcoin’s future price-a symphony of greed and ambition. 🎻
Yes, you heard it right! They’ve removed the “delaying amendment” from their filing-because who needs delays when you have ambition? As others have done before, the company could simply march right past the paperwork queue and serve us all a lovely ETF by mid-November. Will this be the magic moment that sends Ripple’s price soaring to new heights? Only time will tell, but the possibilities are as tantalizing as the last chocolate truffle at a party no one wants to leave.
As traditional equities yawn and stretch after their earnings feasts, the crypto realm seizes the moment to chart its own course. Macroeconomic concerns? Shelved for now. The Federal Reserve takes a breather, inflation data remains dormant until mid-month, leaving the market to trade on positioning, not the cacophony of headlines. 🚀
The Facts (Or What Passes for Them in This Bizarre Universe)
Meanwhile, those pesky larger-cap altcoins couldn’t get a break, dropping ever so slightly. Among the sad bunch were HYPE, BCH, HBAR, ZEC, and TAO, all dragging their feet like they missed the memo on how to party. 🎉🙄
The week began promisingly enough, the air thick with whispers of a trade agreement between America and China. Rumors, of course. They always are. It briefly lifted spirits, not just in the crypto world, but in the stock markets as well – a curious symbiosis, wouldn’t you say? Like two sickly plants briefly leaning on each other for support. Bitcoin ( BTC) briefly touched $116,381, a fleeting moment of optimism before… well, before reality intervened.
