The week began with a spectacle fit for a Tolstoyan tragedy. On the 23rd of February, $203.8 million fled Bitcoin ETFs, BlackRock’s IBIT leading the exodus with a tearful $116.4 million exit. One might pity the investors, had they not been the architects of their own folly.
At the same time, he thinks that Wall Street negativity on Bitcoin is “real but wrong,” a sentiment as fleeting as a moth’s flutter in a storm.
Oh, but the decline was no mere stumble! Lower highs emerged like a chorus of sour notes beneath key moving averages, while the 20 EMA near $0.3015 and 50 EMA around $0.3059 played the role of overzealous gatekeepers, refusing to let our hero (or rather, victim) ascend. A farce of resistance, indeed!
On February 27, a group of eleven senators-pouring over the parchment once resembling a political scribe’s handwriting-sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pam Bondi. They warned that Binance might be a prolific magician performing illicit finance tricks, fluttering charms that could spell national peril.
This decision comes as a direct result of a security incident so catastrophic, it made the Titanic look like a tea party.
According to the official press release, the funds were connected to scams where victims were lured in with promises of “romance, fake profits, and a side of cryptocurrency.” Because who doesn’t want a boyfriend who also doubles as a financial advisor?
So, the rally decided to take a nap after three days of non-stop partying. Spot bitcoin ETFs were like, “Nah, we’re good,” and slipped into negative territory with a $27.55 million outflow. Blame it on Blackrock’s IBIT, which threw a $32.71 million tantrum and stormed out. Rude.
By the time someone noticed, $4.8 million had already been siphoned out faster than a government employee’s patience at a coffee machine.
Enter Peter Schiff, the Cassandra of the cryptocurrency age, whose every tweet is a funeral dirge for Bitcoin bulls. With the gravity of a man who has seen the future, he poked at the fragile edifice of digital faith while gold and silver, those stoic relics of human greed, danced in triumph. Gold, that ancient custodian of despair, closed at $5,278, a number so round and regal it could have been carved on a pharaoh’s tomb. Silver, its scrappy cousin, added $5.50 to $93.66, as if to say, “We’ve done this before, and we’ll do it again.”
So, here we are, with six lucky (or should I say, well-informed?) Polymarket accounts pocketing $1.2 million after correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran on February 28. And how did they know? Well, according to blockchain detectives at Bubblemaps, these accounts had funds flowing in within 24 hours of the attack, and-surprise!-they bought “Yes” shares in the “U.S. strikes Iran by February 28, 2026?” market just hours before the explosions rocked Tehran. How convenient!