In the shadowy corridors of high finance, a peculiar change has taken place. Christopher Wood, renowned as Wall Street’s favorite oracle and boss of equity strategies at Jefferies, has decided that Bitcoin no longer belongs in his cherished model portfolio. This is akin to a chef suddenly rejecting salt-unexpected and perhaps a sign of impending disaster.
The rate of XRP, once a proud steed, has now stumbled, losing 2% since yesteryear-a mere flicker in the grand tapestry of financial folly.
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Traders are glued to their screens, waiting for someone to make a move. It’s like watching a suspenseful movie but with less popcorn and more anxiety. 🍿
Meet Brian Sewell: 54-year-old Washington County resident, part-time fraud artist, and full-time disappointment to his parole officer. His 7-year crypto Ponzi scheme collapsed faster than a soufflé in a hurricane 🌪️.
Artemis, a cryptocurrency metrics platform, has issued its latest stablecoin report, describing the rise of crypto cards in the payments arena. 🧠
Behold! An “exclusive NFT collection” shall descend upon the earth like manna from a blockchain heaven, accompanied by “premium merchandise” to drape the masses in licensed fervor. A grand gambit, one might say, to transmute crypto-curios into objects of mainstream desire-or at least to trick the rubes into buying hoodies with penguin logos. 🎩💸
On the daily timeframe, most top caps are pulling back, which sounds ominous until you realize this follows a rally so strong it made your grandma’s knitting circle look like a crypto meetup. Assets reclaimed key levels like they were late for tea with the Queen 🫖👑.
KBC Group announces that, beginning the week of 16 February 2026, private investors in Belgium can buy and sell crypto assets via Bolero, the bank’s online execution-only investment platform, under the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR); KBC has submitted a full Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) notification to the competent Belgian authority and is the first Belgian bank to meet these requirements. Customers will trade bitcoin ( BTC) and ether ( ETH) within Bolero’s closed-loop model and must pass a knowledge and experience test before trading. 🤔
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