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As we bid adieu to January 2026, a rather sobering thought has settled over many a crypto enthusiast: Bitcoin’s once-glorious narrative is crumbling faster than a cookie in a black hole. What we are witnessing is the continuation of a trend established throughout 2025-a nearly intimate relationship between our dear cryptocurrency and those traditional risk assets, particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite-like a troubled couple at a therapy session.

According to the latest weekly dispatch, Glassnode muses on the froth and foam of Bitcoin’s liquidity during a recent tumble, following an ill‑fated climb earlier this month.

BlackRock never rushes in – they tend to wait until the shouts and whistles from the institutional crowd are demanding their new weapon of mass containment. Think of it like a theater director who pays no heed to the critics until the show is sold out. McClurg mused that the Bitcoin ETF launched only after a chorus of “Hey, we want more Bitcoin!” resoundingly echoed. “Enough institutions were asking for them,” he wryly jabbed.

While the alarmists cry doom, the current descent appears less a harbinger of apocalypse and more a tiresome yawn of demand fatigue and macro posturing. The question lingers, as insistent as a mosquito at twilight: is this a mere consolidation, a dramatic pause in the grand ballet of speculation, or the opening act of a more precipitous plunge?

According to our friendly neighborhood crypto trader, XRP is still playing nice within a neat little price range that goes all the way back to the 2018 peak. Think of it as XRP’s very own cozy blanket-comfy, familiar, and a tad boring. This range, lounging between the low-$2s and low-$3s, has been the backdrop for XRP’s many market dramas. Since late 2024, it’s been like Groundhog Day, with prices testing the same support and resistance levels over and over without making any real progress. Yawn!

As it goes, this so-called intra-era hard fork is deemed a minuscule enhancement, promising to leave the transaction shape unscathed. Ah, the effort required for such a monumental upgrade is said to be minimal-though one cannot help but imagine the Herculean labor behind the scenes.

In the midst of this chaos, gold has decided to don its finest attire, with predictions it may reach a dazzling $10,000 by decade’s end. Ed Yardeni must have consulted a crystal ball-or perhaps just a very optimistic accountant-because this year, gold has jumped by double digits thanks to ETF inflows. There’s nothing like a shiny metal to distract everyone from crypto woes!

The bulls, those poor dears, decided to take a snooze as the risk-off boogeyman spooked the markets. Bitcoin slithered back to $88,000, looking as glum as a raincloud at a picnic.

In a memorandum so mundane it was deemed unworthy of publication, filed on the 27th of January, 2026, a trio of judges upheld the Northern District of California’s decree. The three-year repose period, a ticking clock that cares not for the plight of the procrastinator, had long since expired by the time the class action was filed. Ah, the irony of justice-swift for some, a snail’s pace for others.

Lawmakers say they’ll vote by late June, with implementation penciled in for July 1, 2027, according to Anatoly Aksakov, chair of the Financial Market Committee in the Duma. It’s a timetable that sounds almost optimistic, if you squint at it and hope the coffee kicks in just right.