Russia's New Crypto Rules: A Small Step for the Average Person
Russia's Central Bank has just proposed a major shift in cryptocurrency policy, opening the door—slightly—for everyday citizens to invest in digital assets like Bitcoin. This framework, submitted to the government on December 23, 2025, aims to regulate crypto trading starting potentially by July 2026.
What This Means for the Ordinary Russian (Non-Qualified Investors)
If you're an average person without significant wealth or financial credentials—classified as a "non-qualified" investor—the rules are designed to protect you while al

Tis the Season for Red Candles in Crypto 🎄🔴
As the holidays take center stage, the crypto market is delivering its own festive theme: everything painted in red. While priorities shift to family, gifts, and cheer, Bitcoin and major altcoins are sliding lower amid thinning holiday liquidity, ETF outflows, and broader risk-off sentiment. The broader market cap has dipped below $3.1 trillion, with most coins posting losses despite a resilient US economy showing strong Q3 GDP growth of 4.3%.
Bitcoin and the Overall Market Dip
A crypto pullback is underway, with Bitcoin hovering around $88,000–$89

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Ethereum's bearish technical pattern — ETH has formed a bearish flag on the daily chart, which typically signals further price declines.
BMNR stock performance and patterns — BMNR shares have fallen for three straight days, dropping to about $31 (down ~80% from its yearly high), with a market valuation around $13 billion.
BitMine operates as a major corporate Ethereum treasury holder, recently increasing its holdings to 3.97 million ETH (over 3.2% of total supply, valued in the billions). The company continues aggressively accumulating ETH...
I see near-term risks to BMNR coming from ETH's wea

Bitcoin’s correlation with Nvidia, Oracle, and the Nasdaq has strengthened markedly in recent months—reaching levels around 0.96 with Nvidia and showing tight alignment with broader tech indices—making BTC highly vulnerable to any sharp AI-led risk-off move or credit market repricing.Central banks and the IMF have Bitcoin’s correlation with Nvidia, Oracle, and the Nasdaq has strengthened markedly in recent months—reaching levels around 0.96 with Nvidia and showing tight alignment with broader tech indices—making BTC highly vulnerable to any sharp AI-led risk-off move or credit market repricing

$SHIB
Shiba Inu continues to trade in a tight range between support at $0.0000075 and resistance at $0.0000095 — more than 90% below its all-time high. Whale transactions exceeding $100,000 have surged recently, while exchange balances are climbing, both classic precursors to a sharp volatility expansion. Burn rates have spiked from near-zero levels, fueled by growing Shibarium adoption and on-chain activity, yet a confirmed trend reversal remains elusive.
$DOGE
Dogecoin is hovering just above multi-month support around $0.14, with $0.16 representing the first meaningful upside hurdle. Current

Strategy Inc. acquired 10,624 Bitcoin for $962.7 million, bringing its total holdings to 660,624 BTC, despite a 60% decline in its stock price over the past six months.
CEO Michael Saylor remains committed to accumulating Bitcoin long-term, rejecting the sale of assets to fund dividends, and has built a $1.44 billion cash cushion to support the company for nearly two years.
The company faces increasing competition as major banks like JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley launch Bitcoin-linked products, challenging Strategy’s role as the dominant corporate Bitcoin accumulator.

Bitcoin is holding at the key 0.382 Fibonacci retracement support. A clean break below would likely trigger a retest of the April lows and inflict meaningful damage to higher-timeframe structure.
Near-term upside remains capped by the upcoming Fed decision, critical jobs and inflation prints, persistently weak ETF inflows, and subdued trading volumes. Volatility compression continues to skew the immediate risk/reward to the downside.
That said, rising on-chain liveliness and clear seller exhaustion on Bitfinex indicate long-term holders are beginning to re-accumulate. These signals point to gr

Big Tech has rebuilt feudalism 2.0 for the digital age—“technofeudalism,” as Yanis Varoufakis calls it. A handful of global platforms now function as modern lords: extracting our data as tribute, ruling across borders beyond the reach of any nation-state, and wielding sovereign power with zero democratic accountability.
Web3 is the way out. It hands identity and data ownership back to users, bakes transparency into the code, and replaces fragile corporate chokepoints with resilient, decentralized infrastructure. Power finally returns to those who create the value.
The next revolution will not

Tom Lee (@fundstrat):
Bitcoin’s 4-year cycle is dead. BTC to track S&P 500 in 2025, then new ATHs in early 2026.
Ethereum is massively undervalued → $20K target as it becomes the backbone for tokenized securities & payments.
ETH just broke a 5-year range with a giant W-pattern + bullish RSI. More upside ahead.
#Bitcoin #Ethereum

Germany is finally spending big: €400B+ on defense, infrastructure & green energy after debt-brake reform. 👀
Lagarde calls it a “turning point” for Europe.
Economists foresee +1–1.6% GDP boost by 2030. DAX hitting records, defense & infra stocks surging

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