Venezuela holds roughly 300B barrels of oil, the largest reserves globally, around 18% of total supply. That’s nearly 9x the reserves of the U.S.
At ~$58 per barrel, that equates to ~$17.4T in oil. Even at half that price, it’s still ~$8.7T.
In a very short window, effective control shifted over resources worth more than half of U.S. GDP and more than the combined GDP of Germany, Japan, India, and the UK.
This isn’t a political take. It’s about scale and market implications.
Oil markets open Sunday at 6:00 PM ET. Will be watching closely.
#StrategyBTCPurchase When the world’s reserve currency is used as a tool of power to assert control over trillions in real-world resources, trust in the system erodes. Not overnight, but structurally.
Oil can change hands. Borders can be enforced. Assets can be seized.
Bitcoin is different. It sits outside that framework.
That’s why in times when money and geopolitics collide so openly, people don’t look for the next trade. They look for the only asset that remains neutral.
Bitcoin’s price reacts to many things. Its relevance reacts to moments like these.
Was looking at the market cap rankings and noticed something interesting.
$XRP has flipped $BNB to become the 4th largest crypto by market cap.
This isn’t just a price move, it’s a reflection of where capital is rotating right now. In a relatively slow market, strength is showing up in assets with clear narratives, deep liquidity, and renewed institutional relevance.
Worth watching whether this is a temporary rotation or the start of a broader repricing across large-cap alts in 2026.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis has called on Congress to move forward and pass comprehensive crypto market structure legislation.
She emphasized the urgent need for clear rules to define how digital assets are regulated in the United States, stating that regulatory uncertainty is pushing innovation and capital offshore. According to Lummis, a well-defined market structure would protect investors, support responsible innovation, and give crypto companies the clarity they need to operate confidently.
This push reflects growing bipartisan recognition that crypto is no longer a niche industry but a core part of the future financial system. Clear legislation could play a major role in strengthening U.S. leadership in digital assets.
Notes: • Hold in spot and be patient • If your spot wallet is $1,000, invest only $200 • Stay away from futures • This trade will take time — no overnight profits
🚨Top 5 Crypto Fictional Films And Series To Watch:
🍿 Crypto (2019): A crime thriller starring Kurt Russell and Luke Hemsworth about a Wall Street banker uncovering a money-laundering web involving Russian mobs.
🍿 Silk Road (2021): Based on true events, this film follows the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his dark web marketplace.
🍿 StartUp (2016–2018): A popular TV series on Netflix about entrepreneurs developing a decentralized digital currency in Miami's underworld.
🍿 Dope (2015): A coming-of-age comedy where a high school geek uses Bitcoin to unload a stash of drugs he accidentally finds.
🍿 Bitcoin Heist (2016): An action-packed Vietnamese "Ocean's 11-style" film about hackers teaming up to catch an elusive cyber-criminal. #crypto #Movies
BREAKING: #netflix just recorded its worst quarter since April 2022, with shares plunging 20% and wiping out over $124,000,000,000 in market capitalisation in Q4.
Just in: 💰 BNB Chain’s Lorentz & Maxwell upgrades cut fees by about 98% and push block times down to roughly 0.75s, as daily users reach 4.8M and transactions top 15M — burning around 6.25M BNB.
JUST IN: 💰 $AVAX jumps ~11% after Grayscale, VanEck, and Bitwise ETF filings mention staking; growing network adoption and a surge in volume back a breakout.
Binance Alpha is the first platform to feature AI Avatar (AIAV), with Alpha trading opening on January 2, 2026, at 9:00 (UTC).
🌟 Once trading begins, users with at least 256 Binance Alpha Points can claim an airdrop of 305 AIAV tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the score threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.
📊 Market Structure Update — Bitcoin (BTC) Bitcoin is currently trading inside an Ascending Triangle, a structure that typically signals building bullish pressure. The lower highs have already been broken, and momentum is gradually shifting in favor of the bulls. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 Key Levels to Watch
🔹 Major Resistance:
• 94,660
• 94,817 🔹 Intermediate Resistance:
• 92,456
• 92,534 🔹 Strong Support:
• 90,593 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Price Action Insight According to the chart, BTC is forming higher lows, showing strong demand at lower levels. If price confirms a trendline breakout followed by a successful retest, we could see a strong impulsive move to the upside. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 Expected Move (Scenario) ✔️ Minor pullback or retest first
✔️ Break above 92,500+
✔️ Breakout confirmation opens the door toward 94,600 – 94,800 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Risk Note
This setup is based on the 4H timeframe.
Do not expect instant results — patience and proper risk management are key. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 Conclusion BTC is currently in a decisive zone.
If a breakout occurs, 2026 could begin with strong bullish momentum 🔥🚀
One thing this post reinforces for me: one of the true OGs of crypto is still focused on the core problem. Not chasing metas. Not optimizing narratives around whatever fills blockspace fastest. But pushing toward the original goal: real decentralization. Ethereum was never meant to be just a financial casino or a settlement layer for trends. It was meant to be infrastructure. Software that keeps running even when companies fail, platforms shut down, or politics change. There was a time when you fully owned your car, your kitchen appliances, your books, and your money. No subscriptions. No kill switches. No centralized permission. That default is slowly disappearing. Ethereum is one of the few serious attempts to reverse that direction. Scaling matters. UX matters. Adoption matters. But without decentralization and user sovereignty, all of it misses the point. 2026 feels less about hype cycles and more about whether we actually finish what this space started.
A post on X.COM from Vitalik Buterin (often known online as @VitalikButerin) Russian-Canadian programmer, writer, and philanthropist, best recognized as the co-founder of Ethereum.
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Ethereum Doesn’t Need More Hype. It Needs to Finish the Job
Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)
But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:
To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.
We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.
These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.
Ethereum is the rebellion against this.
To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.
Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.
Ethereum Doesn’t Need More Hype. It Needs to Finish the Job
Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)
But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:
To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.
We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.
These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.
Ethereum is the rebellion against this.
To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.
Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.