Square, the payments arm of Block (XYZ), unveils a merry troupe of tools designed to make bitcoin as easy to handle as a ready-to-wear cloak, letting sellers accept crypto and mind their assets beside traditional ledgers. 🧵💳
Let us pause for a moment to consider the gravitas of this venture. According to a press release (because, of course, they would), the Roughrider Coin is set to launch in 2026. Banks and credit unions in North Dakota will be able to use it to engage in transactions, probably with the same enthusiasm as one would use an umbrella in a hailstorm. And who could forget the high-tech partnership with Fiserv, a payments company that managed an impressive $35 billion in merchant transactions last year? It’s almost as if they’ve combined the power of a solid state bank and a digital giant to create something… memorable.
The grand spectacle took place in the fabulously swanky Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. Paroma Chatterjee, the dazzling CEO of Revolut India, was all smiles while acknowledging the superheroes of the financial world: Sohini Rajola from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Ramakrishnan Gopalan from Visa. It’s like a techy squad goals moment! 💪✨
Bloomberg, that tireless witness to the arithmetic of vanity, reported on October 8 that this move is no casual impulse but a deliberate intervention to stabilize a token tethered to a ruler of the land. The outcome remains a question carved in chalk upon a blackboard of risk, yet the ambition is colossal, a ladder stretched toward the heavens with rung after rung of currency. 🔎💹
Alas, despite its considerable purse, Tether was cast aside like a forgotten boot during key deliberations and a €110 million funding revelry. Exor, the grand patron, hath already bestowed nearly €30 million, leaving Tether to cry into its crypto wallet. 💸
Bitcoin, that vaunted titan of the digital realm, briefly flirted with the abyss, dipping its toes below the $121,000 mark. Ethereum, ever the dramatic companion, followed suit, shedding its luster and plummeting beneath the $4,500 threshold. Altcoins, those fickle courtiers, registered losses so substantial one might suspect they’d been robbed by a particularly cunning band of digital brigands. 🚀🔻
And let’s talk numbers-because who doesn’t love a good number fest? The DXY index has plummeted by 10% this year, while gold and Bitcoin have respectively jumped by 26% and 25%. Sounds like a party, right? Not so fast. Bitwise also points out that a staggering 49,158 $BTC have been withdrawn from exchanges-just more evidence that the big players are hoarding, not selling. Talk about a game of “Who Can Hold the Most Coins?”
As whispered by the breathy zephyrs of Bloomberg, the Bank of England is now considering the sweet siren call of exemptions regarding its formerly unbending stablecoin reserve caps. This newfound latitude appears most alluring to the nimble crypto exchanges and spry fintech darlings that crave vast reservoirs of liquidity and settlement reserves. Yet, in an enigmatic turn of events, the BoE entertains the notion of nestling stablecoins within a Digital Securities Sandbox – an experimental playground where blockchain’s off-spring frolic, free within regulatory parameters.
On October 6, 2025, Bitcoin soared to a jaw-dropping $126,272 per coin on Bitstamp, breaking records like a bull in a china shop. 🐂💥 But by Tuesday, it had cooled its jets, dropping to a mere $120,648. Since then, it’s been bouncing between $121,500 and $122,500 like a hyperactive kangaroo. 🦘
As the sun of optimism rose, traders and investors, those shrewd navigators of the financial seas, turned their gaze to altcoins, those lesser-known but promising vessels, which might ride the tide of sentiment. Behold, three American-made cryptocurrencies, poised to sail triumphantly this week.
