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Bitcoin seals its worst October performance since 2018 as traders flip cautious on the outlook. 🤷‍♀️

Because, my dear, it’s the first time a major developed nation has married Bitcoin mining to national energy management. A match made in technological heaven, or so they say. 💍

As our narrator opens the first chapter of this saga with an unabashed hint of bravado only matched by the bravest of Russian duelists, he tells us of a critical moment upon the horizon for equity markets. These markets, precariously balancing on the knife-edge of destiny, may very well herald the rallying cries for XRP’s next act. Redoubtable yet resting patiently above the $2.50 line, XRP lurks in the wings like a Slavic prince awaiting his epiphany, poised to surge not merely to new unfathomed successes but to “multiple hundreds of percent,” a flourish fit for a Turgenev comedy of sorts. 🎭

Nic Carter, the co-founder of Coin Metrics and partner at Castle Island Ventures, wasted no time throwing a bucket of cold water on our warm, cozy crypto dreams. His answer? A resounding “yes.” Even if privacy coins like Zcash somehow manage to escape to the warm embrace of post-quantum cryptography, every historical transaction is as good as laid bare for all to see once ECC is taken down. “You think your privacy’s safe? Hah! Wait for ~5 years, and watch it all vanish!” he quipped on October 30, 2025. “Everything is built on ECC, my friend.”

When CryptoMoon, the illustrious purveyor of all things crypto, grilled Mehra about what trends his firm is stalking like a curious cat, he didn’t hold back. They’re diving headfirst into the labyrinth of quantum compute, trying to figure out how to keep their secret crypto stashes hidden from what might someday be a giant, super-powered quantum hammer. Because why not?

In the most recent gossip from X, Bull Bear Spot shared a lovely little chart comparing Optimism to the Global M2 Liquidity Index. A bullish correlation, they say, signaling that our dear Optimism might just surge-like a noble knight rising from his slumber-should liquidity keep flowing like fine wine. The analyst, in a fit of optimism (pun intended), declares this a “bullish chart,” suggesting that, should the stars align, a “pump” may be on the horizon. A toast to that, shall we? 🍷

And here we are, at a thrilling crossroads in the Chainlink saga. The coin is now shimmying around a key Gann arc support level on the weekly chart. According to Cantonese Cat (who really does have a way with these things), this feels eerily familiar to the buildup before those big price swings. How exciting! 🕺 The price is cozying up to $17, where multiple Gann angles conveniently intersect, creating a nice little safety net that has acted as a springboard for bullish reversals before. Oh, what a classic tale of technical analysis!

The Facts

Well, current miners are making $340,000 per block, even though they’re getting half the Bitcoin they did in 2020. Go figure!

But hark! Hoskinson, ever the sage, dismisses the plebeian obsession with price charts. “All you care about is the price. It’s the price. Price goes up, price goes down,” he chided, his tone laced with the exasperation of a man who has watched Bitcoin’s rollercoaster ride from $1 to $100,000 and back again. “But why are we here? Where has the durability come from over the last 15 years?” 🤔💹