According to the eggheads at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Christina Marie Chapman—a sprightly 50-year-old—was up to her neck in a scheme that had North Korean sorts wangling their way into remote gigs at Yank tech and crypto firms. Blighter raked in a cool $17 million, splitting the spoils with the chaps in Pyongyang. Talk about a bit of a lark gone wrong! 💼🔥
“I cheated,” Swartz confessed in an X post, sounding more like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar than a tech whiz. 🍪
One cannot help but marvel at the audacity. Is this the future of the RWA market—a theater of Ponzi schemes disguised as innovation? Or perhaps, as our dear investor laments, the very notion of a “Real World Asset” is but a chimera, a jest played upon the credulous. 🧐✨
Per a rather tantalizing July 25 post on X by the ever-vigilant Eleanor Terrett of Fox Business fame, a Department of Justice prosecutor let forth the delightful news that criminal charges are still dangling like ripe fruit over our dear Tom Schmidt—a general partner at that daring crypto venture firm, Dragonfly. 🥴🍷
While Ms. Lummis is known for her relentless advocacy of Bitcoin, akin to a determined terrier nipping at the heels of a reluctant ox, her latest proclamation that the cryptocurrency is “digital gold” comes as no surprise to those who have ever gazed upon a spreadsheet and wept. 🧠💸
Mr. Ki Young Ju, a gentleman of some repute in the world of CryptoQuant, has lately declared that Bitcoin’s established market cycle theory is, to put it mildly, rather past its prime. This pronouncement was made amidst a slight, though unsettling, correction in the price of Bitcoin, with these aforementioned institutional investors appearing to have taken the reins. A most alarming thought, wouldn’t you agree?
It was on that fateful Friday that Bitcoin, in a moment reminiscent of tragic heroes, fell below $116,000. This upheaval sparked a catastrophic wave of trader liquidations, culminating in a staggering 213,000 casualties within just 24 hours. A veritable apocalypse of misplaced optimism!
So, the Pi people are very busy. Constantly “updating” things. They’ve introduced a “BUY” button in the Pi Wallet. A BUY button! Like we didn’t already know you could *buy* things. Revolutionary. It’s like discovering your toaster has a ‘toast’ setting. 🤯
This acquisition elevates their Bitcoin portfolio to an impressive 1,825 BTC, placing them at the 26th position on the Bitcoin 100 leaderboard—a ranking that, one might argue, is less about financial acumen and more about the whims of market trends. 📊✨
A death cross, for the uninitiated, is like a technical analysis party crasher 🎉 – it happens when a shorter-term moving average (think 50-day or 50-week MA) falls below a longer-term moving average (like 200-day or 200-week MA). It’s often seen as a bearish signal, like a big, ominous cloud ☁️, frequently indicating deeper corrections or extended downtrends.