Crypto Pickup

🎙️ Is BTC set to outperform ETH in the near term? Markus Thielen (@markus10x), founder of @10xresearch, tells @itsciaranlyons why he’s not “super optimistic” on Ethereum right now, and why he sees Bitcoin ending the year around $90,000. Plus, could the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs send Bitcoin higher or trigger a crash? Watch the latest episode of #TRADESECRETS. 00:00 Bitcoin Has Changed Forever — Here's Why 00:48 Is Another Bitcoin Rally Coming Before 2026 Ends? 01:18 Why Bitcoin's Latest Rally Looks Just Like 2023 04:00 Could Bitcoin Crash Back to $60K? 05:10 Why Thielen Believes Bitcoin Has Already Bottomed 07:15 The $40 Trillion Debt Problem Fueling Bitcoin's Rally 08:16 Could OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs Send Bitcoin Higher? 10:09 Why Investors Are Abandoning Government Bonds 11:20 Is There Enough Liquidity to Fuel the Next Bitcoin Bull Run? 14:37 Why Bitcoin and Gold Could Benefit From Higher Inflation 16:00 Bitcoin vs. Gold: Which Is the Better Investment? 19:20 Could Bitcoin Really Gain $100K in a Single Day? 20:08 Why Bitcoin's Explosive Rallies May Be Gone Forever 23:33 Who Will Drive Bitcoin's Next Bull Market? 24:00 Why Wall Street's Bitcoin Adoption Is Still Overestimated 26:39 Is Quantum Computing Holding Bitcoin's Price Back? 28:44 Bitcoin to $90K by December? Thielen's Price Prediction 29:30 Why Bitcoin Will Keep Outperforming Ethereum 30:17 What Ethereum Must Fix to Become Bullish Again

🚨 JUST IN: Binance says the hack likely stemmed from a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, with no sign of a private key leak. It puts the total impact at about $6.3B.

There is a 77% chance the Fed will increase interest rates in December, per Polymarket⁠.com. Last meeting, the Fed did not increase interest rates, but inflation continues to climb.

FUN FACT: Today’s Binance hack is the largest robbery in human history. Current damage up to $6.1B. God help us all.

JUST IN: Crypto market crashing. $SOL falls under $96 $XRP falls under $1.25 $ETH falls under $2,250 $BTC falls under $78,500 Over $600,000,000 in leveraged crypto long positions have been liquidated in the past 30 minutes.

🇺🇸 UPDATE: The US accounts for roughly 15–20% of global crypto activity, including 36% of Bitcoin hashrate and 31% of Ethereum full nodes, per Grayscale.

🇪🇺 Christine Lagarde is QUITTING the European Central Bank nine months early. And she's leaving behind one hell of an unfinished project. The ECB president will step down on February 7, 2027, after years of fighting Bitcoin, defending the euro and trying to sell 450 million Europeans on the DIGITAL EURO. A government-backed digital currency that practically nobody asked for. Lagarde says she wants the freedom to speak her mind about politics and world affairs. Fair enough. But why leave nine months early? Her beloved digital euro is still stuck in political negotiations, with no guarantee it will ever see the light of day. And now its biggest cheerleader is walking out before the project even gets off the ground. Maybe the timing means nothing. Maybe Lagarde knows something we don't. But there's something rather amusing about spending years lecturing people about Bitcoin, championing a digital currency controlled by central bankers, and then leaving before anyone gets to use it. Wouldn't it be something if the digital euro ended up retiring with her? Writer: Oliver

🔥 BULLISH: Matt Hougan says $HYPE is “just getting started” despite its 14% rise, claiming 99.9% of Americans do not know it exists.

JUST IN: 🇦🇪 Dubai royal family-backed Standard Asset Company launches $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment strategy.

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JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia's central bank officially registers its first regulatory organization for crypto exchanges.