Kamala tokens went to the abyss, but Trump coins are falling too! 📉
In just 24 hours, Kamala tokens plunged by 99%, fading into crypto oblivion. Trump coins didn’t fare much better: MAGA dropped by 75%, Pepe Trump by 65%, and even the optimistic "47th President of the United States" token crashed by 63%. 👀
The 7-Figure Mistake Every New Crypto Trader Repeats 👇🏻
Almost every crypto trader makes the same 7-figure mistake. It is not “buying the top”. It is underestimating how fast liquidity disappears when the music stops. You see a coin trending, green candles everywhere, influencers screaming “early”. Volume looks enormous. Then one day, the order book thins out, spreads widen, and that easy exit you assumed you had is gone. Smart traders check three things before touching any token: Real 24-hour volume on major venues, not just tiny DEX pools. Liquidity depth around their planned position size. How concentrated the holders are and when big unlocks are coming. The difference between surviving and blowing up is rarely the entry. It is whether you respected liquidity, position sizing, and the brutal math of drawdowns.
I Missed Bitcoin At $1… But I’m Not Missing This Next Shift
Everyone remembers the stories of people who bought Bitcoin at $1, $10, or $100 and never sold. What almost nobody talks about is the much larger group that saw it, laughed, and did nothing. The next big wealth shift in crypto will not look like a perfect repeat of the past cycle. It will look boring at the beginning. It will come from narratives that feel overplayed, chains you think are “too crowded”, and new infrastructure that quietly becomes default. While most people scroll memes, serious builders are shipping: faster L2s, real-yield DeFi, restaking, modular chains, and new wallet UX that makes crypto feel like a normal app. The question is not “Is it too late?” but “What am I systematically ignoring because it feels uncomfortable or early?” The people who win the next wave are not the ones chasing every pump. They are the ones who pick a few high conviction themes, study them obsessively, and stay through the noise. $BTC #Bitcoin #crypto #altcoins #Layer2 $ETH $XRP
🌪🇺🇸A severe winter storm in the U.S. knocked out ~200 EH/s of mining power, sending Bitcoin’s hashrate down to 706 EH/s, the lowest in six months. Block times briefly stretched to ~12 minutes.
American miners were hit hardest: Foundry USA’s pool saw a ~60% drop in hashrate due to electricity restrictions. 📉
The network remains secure, but this highlights how weather and power limits can temporarily disrupt mining operations.
On January 16, a TikTok clip from Werner Herzog’s documentary “Encounters at the End of the World” went viral. The scene? A penguin leaves the herd and marches into the unknown — perfectly paired with “deep” quotes 🐧✨
▪️ Riding the hype, launched on PumpFun on Jan 17. Until Jan 24, it quietly traded around a $1M market cap.
▪️ Then things got weird (and bullish). The White House posted a TikTok and an image on X featuring a penguin and the Greenland flag.
Crypto Twitter instantly noticed:
👉 There are no penguins in Greenland!
Instead of killing the meme, this only fueled it. After all:
A penguin doesn’t care about opinions of those who can’t understand him.
📈 Result? did a 100x+, now sitting at around $88M market cap.
Looks like is pumping everything — except “traditional” crypto 👍🐧💸
Nearly half of all Bitcoin — 10.22 million $BTC (48.7%) — is held in self-custody, reinforcing Bitcoin’s role as truly decentralized money.
This share is far larger than holdings via #ETFs (12.3%) and other indirect investment products. Meanwhile, 33.9% of BTC still sits on exchanges, according to Arkham data.
📊 The numbers highlight a key difference between Bitcoin and traditional assets: a large portion of holders continue to control their own coins, rather than relying on intermediaries — keeping the “not your keys, not your coins” principle alive.
#MichaelBurry — the investor made famous by The Big Short — has warned that a major market crash could be ahead. 🙀
📉 On the #crypto side, early signs may already be showing. In the past 24 hours alone, more than $874M in positions were liquidated, according to Coinglass.
What makes this stand out is the timing: 2026 is only about 2.5 weeks in, yet volatility and forced liquidations are already hitting hard.
⚠️ Whether this is just short-term turbulence or the start of something bigger, the market is clearly entering a high-risk, high-volatility phase.
🔎 According to CryptoQuant, the $79K level is one of the most important support zones for Bitcoin. This price closely matches the realized price (average entry) of US spot #BitcoinETFs investors.
At $BTC ≈ $79,000, most #ETFs holders are at breakeven. A sustained break below this level would push institutions into unrealized losses, which could trigger profit-protection behavior, forced selling, and additional downside pressure on the market. 💵
In short: $79K isn’t just a chart level — it’s a psychological and institutional line in the sand. 🧐
A trader made $80,000 in one night by doing what every analyst should’ve done: watching Domino’s orders near the Pentagon. 🏦
The logic? If pizza deliveries suddenly spike at night, the military is probably busy — and when the military is busy, something big is coming. 📡🍕
He knew a U.S. strike on Venezuela was likely after an aircraft carrier showed up, but timing was the mystery. So he built a simple bot to track pizza-order anomalies. 👀
When the “extra cheese alert” went off, he immediately bought the Polymarket outcome: “The U.S. will strike #Venezuela a .” A few hours later — boom. Bet closed in his favor. 🚀
So, forget on-chain metrics. The real insider indicator is Pepperoni-to-GDP ratio 🍕
Scammers are once again exploiting global attention around #venezuela . 🇻🇪This time, they ran a classic pump-and-dump with a token called #Libre , clearly echoing the old #LIBRA shitcoin saga.
The scheme was promoted through a hacked account of Edmundo González, whom many consider the country’s legitimate leader — giving the scam instant credibility. 🥷
Before the account was recovered and the post deleted, attackers managed to pocket around $34,000. 💵
Same playbook, different token name. When politics meets crypto hype, scammers are never far away 🚨
🕵️♂️ Analyst Timothy Peterson expects a crypto market rally in the near term, based on Bitcoin seasonality and repeating cycles. His model compares current $BTC price action with the 2022–2023 period and shows almost identical patterns. 🧐
📅 On January 3, 2009, the first cryptocurrency was born. That day, the genesis block was mined — the very first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, marking the start of a new financial era.
#Bitcoin ’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, embedded a hidden message in this block:
“Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” — a headline from The Times referencing government bank bailouts after the 2008 financial crisis. 💵📉
The message was more than symbolism. It highlighted Bitcoin’s core idea: an alternative to the traditional financial system, where governments and central banks rescue institutions at taxpayers’ expense.
The reward for the genesis block was 50 BTC — coins that had no market value at the time. Today, Bitcoin trades near $90,000 and ranks among the top 8 largest assets in the world, behind only gold, silver, and major tech stocks.
From an experiment to a global asset — happy birthday, Bitcoin 🎉₿
👂 Rumors swirl about Venezuela’s “shadow” Bitcoin reserve
Unconfirmed reports suggest that may have accumulated a massive off-books crypto reserve — allegedly up to 600,000 . 🙀
According to sources, back in 2018 the regime sold around 73 tons of gold and may have converted the proceeds into Bitcoin to bypass potential freezes by the U.S. Treasury. 💰
It’s also claimed that by late 2025, a large share of oil trade settlements was conducted in USDT, with funds later funneled into as a final store of value.
If true, this would be one of the largest covert state-level Bitcoin positions ever. For now, it remains a rumor — but an intriguing one 👀
Strategy reported another Bitcoin purchase worth $116.3M, acquiring 1,287 BTC between December 29 and January 5 💰
As of January 5, the company holds 673,783 #BTC — over 3% of Bitcoin’s total supply. Since 2020, Strategy has spent roughly $50.5B accumulating $BTC at an average price of around $75,000 per coin.
The latest buy was fully financed through the issuance and sale of MSTR shares. Since the start of January, MSTR stock is up about 3%, following a steep 60%+ decline over the previous five months. 🚀
Founder Michael Saylor also revealed an additional $62M added to the company’s cash reserves, bringing total reserves to $2.25B. 💵
💰 Each of these protocols generated over $1B in fees during the year, proving that real usage and sustainable revenue matter more than hype.
DeFi is gradually shifting from experimental yield stories to cash-flow–driven infrastructure — and the protocols with consistent volume are the ones capturing the value. 🚀
📊Strategy’s own annual performance tracker paints a brutal picture
Top performers this year were Google (+66%), Gold (+64%), and (+41%) — steady gains without signs of overheating. Major indices and Big Tech also closed in the green. 🚀
On the other side of the spectrum: (-6%), IBIT (-6%), and especially MSTR (-47%). 👀
The takeaway is clear: the company with the largest Bitcoin exposure underperformed Bitcoin itself. 🤷
Leverage, a high premium to NAV, and expectations that never materialized ended up hurting shareholders more than BTC’s drawdown.