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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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🪙Bitcoin hovers near $70,000 as analyst calls sell-off 'a mere crisis of confidence'
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) stayed near $70,000 on Tuesday after last week's sharp sell-off and subsequent rebound.📉

🪙The cryptocurrency is down roughly 45% from its all-time high north of $126,000 set last October, when forced liquidations and whale sales triggered a crypto winter.📉

🪙Selling intensified last week when the token saw its worst daily drop since November 2022.
"The current bitcoin price action is a mere crisis of confidence. Nothing broke, no skeletons will show up," Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani said in a note on Monday morning.📉

"In an AI world, bitcoin and crypto are not interesting enough," Chhugani said, adding that the "bitcoin bear case is the weakest in its history."
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🪙Bitcoin bulls spot bottoming signs as longtime bears take victory laps
⚡The Financial Times and Peter Schiff were among the no-coiners giving themselves pats on the back as crypto crashed this week.
🪙Longtime no-coiners were declaring victory this week as crypto markets crashed.
🪙Bitcoin remains $69,000 (or $70,000) too high, declared the FT's Jemima Kelly.
🪙Peter Schiff and the FT joined in pointing out that Michael Saylor's Strategy is underwater on its 5-plus-year bitcoin acquisition spree.
🪙With crypto's multi-month downturn accelerating into a freefall last week, bulls were frantically grasping for technical signals, or maybe yarns about the blowup of some leveraged hedge fund, that might signal a final bottom for this bear market.

📉Perhaps the ultimate sign of a bottom, though, might be the cheers arising from those who have been faithfully bearish on bitcoin
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as its price rose from $0 to more than $100,000 over its 16-year lifespan.
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📝Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD jumps above $5,000 as China's gold buying drives demand

$Gold price (XAU/USD) rises to near $5,035 during the early Asian session on Monday. The precious metal extends its recovery amid a weaker US Dollar (USD) and rising demand from central banks. The delayed release of the US employment report for January will be in the spotlight later on Wednesday.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday refused to rule out the possibility of a criminal investigation of Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for US Federal Reserve (Fed) chair, if Warsh ends up refusing to lower the interest rates. Concerns over the Fed’s independence continue to drag the Greenback lower and provide some support to the USD-denominated commodity price.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) extended its gold buying reserve for a 15th consecutive month in January. The Chinese central bank’s gold holdings rose to 74.19 million fine troy ounces by the end of January, up from 74.15 million the previous month. Rising demand from China, the world's largest gold consumer, might contribute to the Gold’s upside.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian described the Friday nuclear talks with the United States (US) as “a step forward,” even as he pushed back against any attempts at intimidation. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi underlined that any dialogue required refraining from threats.
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📉📉Wall Street back on board after gold’s strong recovery, Main Street bullish but cautious with payrolls and CPI on deck
After riding out the last waves of last week’s nausea-inducing drop, gold began to trade more like a grown-up precious metal once again this week, and by Friday’s close, it looked ready for a marriage and a mortgage.

Spot gold kicked off the week trading at $4,737.79 per ounce, but it opened sharply lower, so the momentum was already skewed to the downside. After a quick push up to $4,844 by 7:00 p.m., gold was trading around $4,640 one hour later, and after a failure to reclaim $4,700, the price broke through near-term support, falling all the way to the weekly low around $4,450 per ounce by 1:30 a.m. Monday morning.

But as is so often the case, the sharp drop was followed by a bounce of almost equal velocity, with spot gold rising to the very edge of $4,800 by 7:45 a.m. Eastern. The North American session was spent reinforcing $4,600 as solid support, setting up another sharp move higher at the Asian open, which saw gold rally above $4,850 by 8:15 p.m., and to $4,935 by 3:30 a.m.
It was now North American traders’ turn to help carve out what proved to be the week’s highest trading range, with spot gold managing to hold above $4,900 all day, after which Asian traders pushed gold prices to the edge of $5,100 overnight.
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Gold and silver volatility rattles nerves, but not convictions
The recent price action in gold and silver is unsettling for many investors by any historical standard. Intraday swings that once seemed implausible for precious metals have become routine, challenging long-held assumptions about gold’s role as a source of stability in uncertain times.

Beneath this volatility, however, many analysts argue that the market is not breaking down - it is recalibrating.

Daily trading ranges have expanded to levels rarely seen outside moments of crisis, and silver’s exaggerated moves have only added to the marketplace’s sense of disorder. Still, this turbulence follows an extraordinary run. Gold posted more than a dozen all-time highs in a matter of weeks, while silver surged to levels that left the market stretched and crowded.

From that perspective, the current correction and consolidation are not only predictable, but necessary. Although markets are down from last week’s all-time highs, prices appear to be growing more comfortable trading in a range between $4,500 and $5,000 an ounce. Despite the volatility, gold is managing to eke out a 1% gain on the week.

Analysts have emphasized that the recent selloff does not represent a structural shift in gold’s long-term outlook. Rather, it reflects a market releasing speculative excess after an unusually steep advance. Importantly, prices have rebounded meaningfully from their lows, suggesting that underlying demand remains intact even as leveraged positions are flushed out.

That demand is not coming primarily from short-term traders. Central banks continue to accumulate gold at historically elevated levels, and physical demand—particularly in key markets such as India and China—has remained resilient despite the volatility. At the same time, portfolio allocations to gold remain relatively low, leaving room for increased participation from institutional investors if macroeconomic uncertainty persists.$PAXG

📉Support/resistance levels emerge as gold rebounds
🪙📉Gold demonstrated resilience this week, recovering from recent losses to post a $175 gain—a 3.63% increase—bringing prices to just below the psychologically significant $5,000 threshold. Despite this recovery, the yellow metal remains approximately $660, or 11.82%, below the record high established last week🧾.
🪙📉While Friday's session saw gold unable to reclaim the $5,000 level, the week's price action established well-defined support and resistance zones that appear poised to govern near-term trading ranges. A comprehensive technical examination of the daily candlestick chart provides insight into probable price trajectories in the coming period.📉
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🪙💥Gold and Silver Technical Analysis: Key Support Holds Amid Rising Volatility
🪙Gold dropped to $4,680 as rising margin requirements, equity market stress, and easing geopolitical tensions pressured prices, but strong technical support around $4,400 and ongoing uncertainty over Fed policy and USD strength could support a bullish rebound.
🪙Gold (XAU) price dropped to about $4,680 in early trading in Asia on Friday. Traders responded to losses in stock market and moved to cover positions. The market is now waiting for the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, which could influence expectations around inflation and interest rates.

🪙The CME Group increased margin requirements for Gold and Silver (XAG) futures, thereby making it more costly for traders to hold positions. That change caused forced selling by some participants. The drop in tech stocks also forced traders to sell gold to meet collateral requirements which contributed to weakness in metal over the short term.
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📉Plasma ($XPL) Redefining Real-World Digital Payments
In an industry often distracted by hype, Plasma ($XPL) stands out by solving the most critical hurdle for crypto: actual usability. As a dedicated Stablecoin-first Layer 1 blockchain, Plasma is engineered to handle the demands of daily commerce rather than just speculative trading.
What Sets Plasma Apart?
Built for Stability: By prioritizing a stablecoin-first architecture, it eliminates the volatility risks that usually scare away merchants and everyday users.
High Performance, Low Cost: It delivers lightning-fast transaction speeds with minimal fees, making it a viable competitor to traditional payment processors.
The Power of $XPL: As the native backbone of the ecosystem, the $XPL token facilitates seamless transitions between digital assets and real-world spending.
The Bottom Line: Plasma isn't just building a blockchain; it’s building a bridge for global crypto adoption. By focusing on reliability and ease of use, $XPL is positioned to become the standard for the next generation of digital finance.
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📢💥Crypto firm accidentally sends $40bn in bitcoin to users

⚡A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange apologised on Saturday after mistakenly transferring more than $40 billion worth of bitcoin to users, which briefly prompted a selloff on the platform.

🪙Bithumb said it accidentally sent 620,000 bitcoins, currently worth more than $40bn, and blocked trading and withdrawals for the 695 affected users within 35 minutes after the error occurred on Friday.

🪙According to local reports, Bithumb was meant to send about 2,000 South Korean won ($1.37) to each customer as part of a promotion, but mistakenly transferred roughly 2,000 bitcoins per user.

🪙“We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to our customers due to the confusion that occurred during the distribution process of this (promotional) event,” Bithumb said in a statement.

🪙The platform said it had recovered 99.7 per cent of the mistakenly sent bitcoins, and that it would use its own assets to fully cover the amount that was lost in the incident.

🪙It admitted the error briefly caused “sharp volatility” in bitcoin prices on the platform as some recipients sold the tokens, adding that it brought the situation under control within five minutes.

🪙Its charts showed the token’s prices briefly went down 17pc to 81.1 million won on the platform late Friday.

🪙In a separate statement released later on Saturday, Bithumb said some trades were executed at unfavourable prices for users due to a price drop during the incident on Friday, including “panic selling”.

🪙The platform said it would compensate affected customers, covering the full price difference as well as a 10pc bonus.

It estimated losses at about 1bn won.
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$BTC /USDT Bearish Continuation Setup
Market Sentiment: Highly Bearish 🔴
Bitcoin is currently testing a critical Breakdown Zone. Failure to hold the current levels suggests a significant downward move is imminent. Macro factors, including the US-Iran Standoff and a spike in retail search volume, indicate a potential "liquidity grab" before a deeper correction.
⚡ Trade Execution
Entry Zone: $67,900 – $68,300
Bearish Confirmation: Below $67,600
Stop Loss (SL): $69,200
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💥⚡The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000The cryptocurrency’s value fell over 10 percent on Thursday, after it peaked in October at over $122,000.📉
🪙On Thursday, Bitcoin’s value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several weeks.⚡

💥Here are some other crypto headlines that have popped up as Bitcoin’s price continues to slide:

📝Ethereum-focused treasury BitMine’s hoard lost over $8 billion in value on Thursday as Ether dropped below $2,000, CoinDesk reports.
📝Bitcoin has effectively erased “all gains since its $69,000 all-time high in November 2021,” according to The Block.
📝The Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange announced it would cut about 200 jobs and shut down operations in the EU, UK, and Australia on Thursday, Bloomberg reports.
📝$FT Alphaville apologized for earlier posts that “may have communicated the idea that bitcoin is a negative-sum game” and “an arbitrary hype gauge that’s disconnected from any utility the token may have,” saying “We stand by every single one of those posts.”
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🪙Michael Saylor's Strategy Faces $4.7 Billion Unrealized Loss as Bitcoin Dips
TYSONS CORNER, VA – Michael Saylor’s bold Bitcoin bet is facing a significant test as market volatility pushes his company’s massive holdings into the red. According to the latest portfolio data from February 2026, Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) is now sitting on approximately $4.77 billion in unrealized losses.
The company's massive treasury, which currently holds 713,502 BTC, was acquired at an aggregate cost of approximately $54.26 billion. With Bitcoin's price recently dipping below the company’s average purchase price of $76,052 per coin, the portfolio's current balance has fallen to roughly $49.5 billion.

📰Total BTC Holdings: 713,502 BTC.
📝Total Investment: ~$54.29 Billion.
📝Unrealized Loss: ~$4.77 Billion.
📝Average Purchase Price: $76,052 per BTC.
📢Despite the current "underwater" status of the investment, Michael Saylor remains committed to his long-term "HODL" strategy. The company recently added 855 BTC to its balance sheet in early February, signaling that it has no intention of slowing down its accumulation despite the short-term market downturn.
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Gold Shines as Investment Banks Maintain Bullish Stance Amidst Silver's Caution
Major investment banks, including UBS, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, are reaffirming their bullish outlook on gold. The precious metal continues to draw strong support, driven by robust central bank purchases and steady inflows into Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Analysts consider typical pullbacks of 5-8% as healthy corrections within gold's overall structural uptrend, solidifying its position as the preferred safe-haven asset.
Meanwhile, silver faces increased caution from investors despite reported supply deficits. Concerns over extreme price volatility, tight liquidity in the London market, and potential weakness in industrial demand are contributing to a more reserved sentiment. Recent sell-offs suggest silver may require more attractive price points to offset these heightened risks, diverging from gold's consistently strong appeal.
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