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Ah, Strategy (MSTR), the grande dame of bitcoin holdings, is in a spot of bother with index provider MSCI. Talks are underway, and the clock is ticking. 🕰️

Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency market, once a graveyard of despair, now dances with renewed vigor. 🎉 Bitcoin, Ethereum, and their kin have shed their winter coats, basking in the sun of a bullish resurgence. 🌞

Paying at the till has never been more… avant-garde. All you need to do is scan the DFX.swiss “OpenCryptoQR” with a wallet like Binance Pay, choose your cryptocurrency (because who doesn’t want options?), and confirm it on your phone. Simple enough for even the most tech-averse granny to give a try.

Now, why should one care about such a spectacle? Consider this: Those IBIT options have soared higher than the sun-kissed peaks of gold ETFs and the mighty spires of tech stocks! This heralds a new era where bitcoin is acclaimed, not unlike a Tolstoy novel freshly discovered, as a beloved macro asset.

The surge seems to be because a whale-presumably one with very expensive taste-decided to buy 2.9 times their usual amount, splashing $273,000 on tokens like they were buying a round at a Mayfair club. Meanwhile, new investors threw in $1.3 million because nothing says “smart money” like betting on cartoon penguins.

Despite this supposedly bullish formation that’s supposed to thrill your heart out with promises of prosperity, Bollinger, with a wry smile and a not-so-secretive wag of his finger, cautions that the thrilling ride might last just as long as a marshmallow fluff sandwich-snapped in a matter of moments. Stripe-backed coins may have surged up to a respectable $93,928, much to the applause of the crowd of coin collectors, but the wise old man predicts this lift might end quicker than a pop tart on a life-size dart board.

Great news! Bitcoin jumped more than 7% over the past day, hitting a sizzling $93,360 in Asia’s morning – kind of like waking up from a 5 a.m. alarm to realize it’s only a dream. Ether was not far behind, shooting up more than 9% and reclaiming its $3,000 street cred. And let’s not forget our friends SOL, ADA, and XRP, all zooming up more than 12%, probably because they rolled out of bed already caffeinated. ☕😉

Now, don’t go thinking this is Ethereum’s first rodeo with privacy. Back in September, the Ethereum Foundation rolled out a privacy roadmap so ambitious, it’d make a riverboat gambler proud. From wallets to transactions, they’re covering it all-retail, institutional, you name it. And let me tell ya, the Kohaku framework’s already dishing out private wallet features like hotcakes at a county fair. 🥞

But hark! Amid this theatrical chaos, a most curious omen appears! Lo, the slumbering Bitcoin-those coins that have lain undisturbed these three to five long years, safe in the digital coffers of the faithful (or the forgetful!)-have stirred! ⏳🫸 Like knights awakening from enchanted sleep, they rise! On-chain movement swells, as if the ghost of Hal Finney himself whispered, “Sell now, fool, before thou art penniless!”