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📊Analyst says key bitcoin level to watch is “decision band” in $67,000 range
Is bitcoin in the “hope and fear” stage or is there still farther for the price to fall?
🪙Bitcoin remains stuck in the $67,000 range, with no clear direction or catalysts, down 46% from its October 6 all-time high.

🪙Opinions differ as to whether the asset has already bottomed out or is still on its way down.

🪙For instance, Nic Puckrin, cofounder of Coin Bureau, posted that “bitcoinBTC $66,754.30 (-0.04%) is in the ‘Hope & Fear’ stage — which means it’s still not a low.”

🪙Aurelie Barthere, principal research analyst at Nansen, told Sherwood News that the dominant call strike is $75,000, suggesting traders favor positioning outside the $60,000 to $70,000 range, potentially waiting for BTC to break the $70,000 resistance.

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“Option traders appear cautious and expect some downside asymmetry for BTC. However, they are less bearish than they were 10 days ago and would likely be long BTC if it breaks above the $70K resistance,” she said.

📢💥US debt will match WWII-era extreme at $64 trillion within a decade – how does Bitcoin benefit?
🇺🇲The US dollar's vulnerability amid soaring debt raises Bitcoin’s appeal as investors reassess traditional safe havens.
🪙The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to ignore, and a level that, relative to GDP, hasn't transpired since the last world war.

🪙Washington’s latest budgetary outlook suggests the nation is on a trajectory to accumulate nearly $64 trillion in federal debt over the next decade.

📊The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) most recent decade-long outlook indicates a sustained increase in national obligations.
The CBO projects federal deficits will total approximately $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026. That gap is expected to widen toward $3.1 trillion by 2036.

📊These figures would increase public-sector debt from approximately 101% of gross domestic product in 2026 to about 120% by 2036. That level exceeds the peak debt burden seen in the aftermath of World War II.

📊For global investors, the absolute size of the debt pile is often less alarming than the cost of servicing it. The CBO data indicate that interest costs are on track to become one of the government’s dominant line items. Annual net interest payments are projected to reach around $2.1 trillion by the mid-2030s.

📊The projection comes as bearish sentiment against the US dollar reaches multi-year highs, creating a volatile macroeconomic backdrop that increasingly aligns with the long-term investment thesis for hard assets such as Bitcoin.
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📢Crypto's $300 billion stablecoin supply is increasingly used as 'everyday money,' global study finds
🪙Stablecoins are shifting from a crypto trading tool to an everyday financial instrument, with users allocating a growing share of their savings and income to dollar-pegged tokens, according to a new global study from BVNK conducted in partnership with Coinbase and Artemis.

🪙Findings from The Stablecoin Utility Report 2026, based on a YouGov survey of 4,658 adults across 15 countries, posits that more than $300 billion in stablecoin market capitalization is increasingly used for payments, payroll, and savings alongside trading activity.

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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a stable value, typically by being pegged 1:1 to fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar and backed by reserves or other collateral. These dollar-tied tokens have a circulating supply of around $300 billion, led by Tether's USDT+0.010% and Circle's
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📢XRP stabilizes amid increased inflows and derivatives market activity
📊XPR extends sideways trading in a range between $1.45 and $1.50.
📊The XRP derivatives market sustains a mild increase in futures Open Interest to $2.56 billion.
📊XRP digital investment products recorded $33.4 million in inflows last week, bringing total assets under management to $2.5 billion.
🪙📊Ripple (XRP) is trading in a narrow range between $1.45 (immediate support) and $1.50 (resistance) at the time of writing on Monday. The remittance token extended its recovery last week, peaking at $1.67 on Sunday from the weekly open at $1.43.

📊🪙Last week's United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed that inflation eased in January, fuelling optimism for at least two interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in 2026. The increased likelihood of rate cuts tends to favor risk assets such as XRP, but the market's overall risk-off tone continues to weigh on the token.
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📢💥Bitcoin price today: dips below $68k, altcoins lag with US data in focus
🪙📊Bitcoin fell on Wednesday, extending recent declines as caution before key U.S. economic data and Federal Reserve comments left investors largely averse towards speculative assets such as cryptocurrencies.

📊The world’s largest crypto took little support from top corporate holder Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR) disclosing more coin purchases, while dip-buyers also remained largely cautious after Bitcoin crashed nearly 50% from an October record high.

📊$BTC Bitcoin fell nearly 1% to $67,746.6 by 01:19 ET (06:19 GMT).
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📢Is the World's Largest Corporate Holder of Bitcoin a Buy, Sell, or Hold in 2026?
🪙Investors are starting to question the true value of Strategy's $50 billion Bitcoin stash.

🪙📊When the price of Bitcoin (BTC0.51%) was skyrocketing to $126,000 last year, the demand for Bitcoin treasury companies appeared to be insatiable. New Bitcoin treasury companies were launching seemingly every week.

📊Companies such as Strategy (MSTR3.34%), the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin in the world, were leveraged bets on the future of Bitcoin, and their future looked very rosy indeed.

📊But what about now, when the price of Bitcoin is down 45% during the past four months? Should investors still be putting their money into Bitcoin treasury companies such as Strategy?
As a Bitcoin treasury company, the sole purpose of Strategy is to accumulate as much Bitcoin as it can, as cheaply as it can, and as quickly as it can. And that's exactly what it has managed to do during the past five years. According to the latest Motley Fool crypto research, as of the first week of February, the company held 713,502 bitcoins on its balance sheet, valued at about $50 billion at today's prices.

📊On a regular basis, Strategy adds even more Bitcoin to its balance sheet. Just a week after the new Motley Fool research came out, the company bought another 1,142 bitcoins at a price of $90 million. As a result, the company now owns 714,644 bitcoins, or more than 3% of all Bitcoin in circulation.
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📢🪙XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is trading at $1.4731 on Monday, up 2.6% from where it traded a week ago.
📊Overall, the token trades 19.6% below its January 1 price and 59% from where it traded during July. Looking across the broader crypto space, Bitcoin (CYPTO: BTC) is trading at $68,674 after declining 2.3% for the week, while Ethereum fell 6.5% to $1,967. Put another way, XRP has outperformed the rest of the crypto space the past week.🧾

📊The most dramatic action came yesterday. On Sunday, XRP spiked to $1.6705 before a sudden drop to $1.4439, with volume of 241.84 million XRP. Bitcoin experienced similar volatility, with Thursday, marking a major selloff that pushed prices down 4.7% to $65,840 before recovering.🧾$XRP

🪙📢XRP Price Target Cut Sharply From $8 to $2.80 by Standard Chartered
📊🪙A sharp shift in outlook from one of the world’s largest global banks has created doubts for the near-term trajectory of XRP. Analysts at Standard Chartered have reduced their 2026 year-end price target for XRP to $2.80, cutting the previous $8 forecast by roughly 65% after the recent crypto market downturn and persistent institutional outflows.

🪙“We expect further declines near-term and we lower our forecasts across the asset class,” Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets
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📢🪙🤣📉Fidelity Macro Chief Discusses Next Bitcoin Bull Market as Cycle Model Projects New Highs📊
🪙⚡Fidelity’s director of global macro says bitcoin’s drop to $60,000 likely marked the floor of its current cycle, setting the stage for a future bull market and a potential push toward new highs.📊🦬
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📢Bitcoin Takes Step Towards Quantum Fix as Experts Diverge on Urgency of Threat
🪙Bitcoin developers lay the groundwork for post-quantum upgrades, but experts vary on whether the threat is years or decades away.
🪙Bitcoin developers have taken another step towards addressing the risk posed by future quantum computers, merging BIP 360 into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals GitHub repository as the long-running debate over the timeline intensifies.

🪙BIP 360 introduces a new output type called Pay-to-Merkle-Root, or P2MR. The design disables a technical feature called key-path spending, which exposes public keys when coins are spent, and lays the groundwork for adding post-quantum signature schemes in future soft forks. The merge does not activate the change, but rather moves the proposal into formal review.

🪙Ethan Heilman, a cryptographic researcher and BIP 360 co-author, told Decrypt that the proposal addresses a specific weakness in Taproot, an upgrade added to the Bitcoin network in 2021.

🪙“The key spend is not quantum-safe because it exposes the public key," he said, "which means that a quantum attacker could attack the key spend and steal your funds, even if the script spend was totally safe.”
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💥📢Elon Musk's X to launch crypto and stock trading in ‘couple weeks’
📰Users will be able to interact with ticker symbols in posts and execute trades within the app, the company's head of product said.

🧾X is set to allow users to trade stocks and cryptocurrencies directly from their timelines.
🧾Users will be able to interact with ticker symbols in posts and execute trades within the app, the company's head of product said.
🧾X Money, the company’s in-house payments system, is preparing for an external beta launch within one to two months.
🧾Elon Musk’s social media platform X is set to soon let users trade stocks and cryptocurrencies directly from their timelines as the company pushes deeper into financial services.

📝$The upcoming features, described by the company’s head of product, Nikita Bier, will include "Smart Cashtags.” These will allow users to interact with ticker symbols in posts and execute trades from the app.

🇨🇳China’s Alibaba AI KIMI Shares How High XRP Price Will Go in 2026
📉KIMI, an artificial intelligence model connected to Alibaba Group’s ecosystem, has outlined a detailed price outlook for XRP through the end of 2026.

📉The projection arrives as the asset continues recovering from ongoing volatility and attempts to regain momentum after its post-rally cooldown.

📉As of February 14, 2026, XRP trades around $1.46, up roughly 7% on the day but still well below its July 2025 peak near $3.66. The model notes the drop largely reflects market weakness and profit-taking following improved regulatory clarity around Ripple.
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📉🪙Better Cryptocurrency to Buy Now and Hold for 10 Years: XRP vs. Bitcoin
🪙Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) aren't trying to win in the same game. One is competing to be the store of value asset that people trust when governments are printing money. The other is vying to be useful plumbing inside institutional financial workflows.

🪙During the next 10 years, those two assets are thus likely to perform very differently. Let's examine the case for buying and holding each of them, and figure out which one is better.

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🪙Crypto execs Armstrong, Garlinghouse among many named to🇺🇲 U.S. CFTC advisory group
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's new chief, Mike Selig, repurposed the agency's previous CEO innovation council, almost tripling its members.
🪙📉The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has set its inaugural list for the Innovation Advisory Committee, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.
🪙📉The group will have a role in steering future regulations as the U.S. derivatives watchdog takes on oversight duties in the crypto markets.⚡

Binance converts its $1 billion safety net into 15,000 BTC
The crypto exchange finalized a 30-day plan to convert its stablecoin-backed user protection fund into 15,000 BTC, reinforcing bitcoin as its long-term reserve asset.
📉Binance purchased a final 4,545 bitcoin, bringing SAFU holdings to 15,000 BTC worth about $1 billion at completion.
📝The move comes after a January 30 announcement that the exchange would convert $1 billion worth of stablecoins into bitcoin.
📝SAFU, created to protect users from hacks and unforeseen losses, is now fully backed by bitcoin, with a pledge to replenish funds if value falls below $800 million.
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📉🪙Crypto expert explains why bitcoin makes 'perfect record' for tracking down criminals
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📉The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has brought a renewed focus on the traceability of cryptocurrencies and their use by criminals following reports of alleged ransom notes requesting payment in bitcoin.
📉Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Feb. 1, when authorities believe she was kidnapped from her home. There have been reports about multiple alleged ransom notes demanding payment in bitcoin during the course of the investigation, now in its second week.

📉While bitcoin gained a reputation for being associated with crime following the 2013 takedown of the Silk Road online black market, where crypto was used to buy illegal drugs and other items, the evolution of the digital assets industry and expanded regulatory oversight of it in the years since has made it more difficult for bad actors to do so.

📢💥What is going on with gold and silver?
📉The prices of gold and silver are on rollercoaster rides; Gold has been rising over the last few years, silver shot up like a skyrocket in January … but then both plunged in price and sputtered around the end of the month. 📝

📉It raises the question: What is going on?

📉Today on the show, we talk with some traders about what this volatility of gold and silver is saying about the state of the world. 📝
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🌍 Global Economic Shift: Is Russia Returning to the U.S. Dollar?
The financial world is buzzing with reports of a potential U.S.-Russia economic "thaw." Following intense geopolitical pressure and the evolving leadership landscape in the U.S., President Vladimir Putin is reportedly considering a strategic return to the U.S. dollar settlement system.
🔍 The Core of the Negotiation
Since 2022, Russia has been a leader in the "de-dollarization" movement, trading heavily in Chinese Yuan and Indian Rupees to bypass Western sanctions. However, current talks suggest a massive pivot:
Conditional Re-entry: Russia may allow limited dollar transactions for specific trade sectors.
The "Trump Factor": Reports indicate that discussions have gained momentum following diplomatic signals from Donald Trump’s camp regarding de-escalation.
Asset Unfreezing: Any return to the dollar would likely be tied to the unfreezing of Russian foreign reserves currently held in Western banks.
⚠️ Current Status: Negotiation vs. Reality
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💥📉Gold finds balance at $5,000, but recession risks could spark next rally
🪙(Kitco News) - Volatility in gold and silver has calmed, with prices settling slightly above $5,000 and $80 an ounce, respectively; however, one financial institution warns investors to expect further price swings in the coming months as the market continues to consolidate.

🪙In its latest quarterly outlook, commodity analysts at Sucden Financial said they expect gold prices to continue trading around $5,000 an ounce through the first quarter as the market balances its role as both a momentum trade and a safe-haven asset.

🪙The analysts said that despite the new speculative momentum, persistent geopolitical tensions, combined with deep uncertainty around U.S. monetary policy and threats to its political independence, have shifted gold’s role to become an expression of macro distrust rather than its traditional function as a hedge against inflation.
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Goldman Sachs Discloses $1.1 Billion Position in Bitcoin ETF Holdings
⚡Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs has revealed an expansion of its crypto holdings, reporting roughly $2.36 billion in total crypto exposure — including $1.1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs, according to financial holding disclosures.📉

🪙Bitcoin’s portion of the haul — the largest of any digital asset listed — highlights just how far the venerable investment bank has shifted from earlier skepticism toward meaningful exposure in the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap. 📝

⚡The $1.1 billion position was in IBIT, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.💥

🪙The SEC filings also revealed holdings of approximately $35.8 million in Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, roughly $92,000 in American Bitcoin and approximately $57,000 in Bitcoin Depot and various other bitcoin mining or cloud-based companies. According to the filings, Goldman Sachs also had hundreds of thousands in IBIT calls and puts.

📉Goldman’s path into Bitcoin began more than half a decade ago with tentative forays into the asset class. In 2022, the firm executed its first known BTC-backed loan and a non-deliverable Bitcoin options trade — milestones that marked early strategic steps into digital assets.

📝Yet for much of its history, Goldman was publicly circumspect about crypto, with executives in earlier years distancing the bank from Bitcoin as an investable class.

📝That posture shifted notably in 2024, when Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings revealed the bank’s first meaningful accumulation of Bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund.
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