The Week Ahead: infinityhedge

Mon: Saylor expected announce another BTC purchase

Tue: U.S. delayed Q3 GDP

Wed: Christmas Eve Markets close early

Thu: Christmas Day Markets closed

Fri: $24B worth of BTC Options Expiry: Max Pain Price $96k; Put/Call 0.37; OTM Calls value: $21B; Call options are clustered at strike prices of $100k and $120k, with heavy put option exposure accumulating at $85k.

ICYMI:

* Trump Orders Blockade of Sanctioned Oil Tankers in Venezuela

* Amount of oil held on tankers has risen to 1.3B barrels of “oil on water” - crude held at sea, That is the largest volume since April 2020, when oil consumption cratered due to COVID-19 lockdowns, and about 30% higher than August levels. This spike in supplies on water is partly due to tightening sanctions on Russia.

* NVIDIA, BlackRock, Microsoft Backed Startup PsiQuantum Founder: so we will have useful quantum computers solving meaningful problems across science and technology you know creating new technologies generating revenue, having serious impact way before Qday (break RSA encryption) happens and so we will be forewarned when you start to see people using quantum computers to solve really genuinely important problems then you can think right well maybe Qday is actually 5 years away maybe 10 years away and that’s when you should start to to worry right.