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$BTC is climbing while silver takes a hit. Interesting, considering BTC barely reacted to the recent run-up in precious metals - it was moving in the opposite direction. Let's see how long this flip lasts. 👀

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is primarily financed -- like all other party-affiliated foundations -- from tax funds. Maybe we should also question the 700 million euros, now that we all have to tighten our belts.🤷🏼‍♂️

If you think you can get rich with technical analysis (TA), like all these gurus on TikTok try to tell you, you should try flipping a coin and charting the results. People will try to convince you that you can predict outcomes with TA (like the coin flips), even when the result

$HYPE is down to $24 and an $8B market cap. The protocol is still buying back almost $2M worth of HYPE tokens every day. Working against the price is the fact that team unlocks started in November, with roughly $200M being unlocked each month.

Looks like Caroline Ellison is out of prison a few months earlier than expected. Meanwhile, SBF has to wait at least until 2044 to get out of prison. Former FTX customers have received a bit more than half of the money they are expected to get back (non-convenience class).

I think I kind of missed it, but it looks like Dom and the team silently shut down Realize. The project was supposed to bring real-world assets to the $IOTA chain and to $ETH. Usually, there's nothing wrong with a startup shutting down, but boy - has there ever been a single

That $BTC Bart Simpson price action is back.

Here are my best and my worst trades of 2025. 1. Hype I bought a ton of $HYPE at the end of 2024 - most of it around $5 and some more under $10. Even though that happened in 2024, I was basically holding most of it throughout 2025. I sold roughly half of it at $50, which

5. $ETH I stopped counting how often I opened long positions on Ethereum. However, I'm pretty sure I lost way more money on it than I won. $ETH had a lot of positive momentum on its side (stablecoins, DeFi), but it never really broke $5K.

7. XPL / MON / STABLE / ... These were the easiest shorts this year - high FDV when they listed, as they went live on all major exchanges at the same time. All of them also had a spot listing. Way too many tokens were allocated to the team and early investors. Obviously, I closed

4. $BTC Option Play I opened a straddle with a put at a strike price of $105K and a call at a strike of $110K. I was basically sure the call would print money - boy, was I wrong. The call is basically worthless now, and the put more or less rescues the position.

2. $BTC I opened a good 7-figure perp long at around $88K and held on to it until the top at $125K. Unfortunately, I never sold there because I was sure it was about to go higher. 🙈 I finally closed the position at around $105K. Even though it made some good money, it still

3. $BTC 2 I never touched my BTC spot bag. Not sure if it was a wise decision or not - I guess time will tell.

6. Alts I basically shorted a ton of alts this year, and it actually made good money - except for $ZEC and $M, where I shorted way too early. In fact, I could have made a lot more money by holding on to the shorts longer.

8. Gold For the first time in my life, I had a big position in gold. The biggest lesson here was that you can actually hold a position where you don't have to be afraid to open your phone when someone says the market is dumping. Low volatility can be peaceful. However, YOLO. 😂

9. Learnings It seems like every year has these 1--2 trades where you're almost 100% certain that you'll be right. I think it's important to learn to wait for these moments and then commit. Let's see what the next year brings.

What a shitcoin. $RAIN has a fully diluted valuation of $8.9 billion and isn't listed on any major exchanges. The daily trading volume is just $20 million. God help you if you think there's any long-term value here.

🇺🇸 Nearly 10% of Americans are now millionaires -- on the rise. 🇩🇪 In Germany, it's about 3.3%. These are the side effects of sustained economic growth and citizens taking personal responsibility for retirement planning, thereby benefiting from stock market returns.

The German Environmental Aid receives several million euros annually in (2023: 2.7M €) from the federal government -- as a so-called NGO. And what does it get in return? Regular lawsuits against the federal government and individual states. Congratulations.🤝