BITAXE SOLO MINER HITS THE JACKPOT
A single Bitaxe ASIC miner with just one chip found Bitcoin block 957,382 yesterday, earning the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, worth about $200,580.
The miner was hashing at roughly 1 TH/s with no overclocking and was the only device on the address. Mining through Public Pool, which charges 0% fees, the operator kept 100% of the block subsidy and transaction fees.
The winning share reached 294.14T difficulty, more than 2.2x the 133.87T required to solve the block.
At 1 TH/s, the odds of finding a block are roughly 1 in 16,000 years on average, making this an extraordinarily rare event. Even so, the daily odds are still estimated to be about 53 times better than buying a single Powerball ticket.
Who gets rekt more on a sharp ±10% impulse move - longs or shorts?
Which actually hurts the majority of market participants way more: a fast pump or a brutal dump?
Crypto never disappoints with asymmetry 😏
#CryptoMarket
heres what most people are missing about why Morgan Stanley launching Bitcoin ETF is the most bullish thing ever-
1) it means the market is MUCH bigger than even crypto professionals anticipated, especially to reach NEW customers. It is unheard of for a vanilla ETF product to launch TWO YEARS after the first to market has already secured the liquidity throne (IAU famously tried a year later, and never caught up). This signals that despite IBIT being the fastest ETF in history to reach $80Bn in AUM (roughly 1/5th the time it took for second place VOO), there is enough untapped interest as viably researched and ascertained through MS' proprietary wealth channels that they are willing to bet that a branded product has commercial viability. it means we are still so early
2) it means that Bitcoin is "socially" important just as much as it is "financially" important as a product to offer to customers. Consider the fact that for being "digital gold" there are virtually no branded gold ETFs in existence, yet for Bitcoin there is. This is because every asset manager knows that having a Bitcoin ETF communicates that they are forward thinking, young, and a little edgy that allows targeting the most challenging investor cohort that everyone wants to reach: UHNW Independent Investors. Morgan Stanley is making the bet that even if their ETF doesn't scale to blockbuster success, there's an intangible benefit that will help build their clout, especially given their focused attention on monetizing E-Trade and crypto via trading/ tokenization partnerships. This becomes especially more relevant as a positive externality if it helps recruit top talent vs competitors (not all IBs are the same!)
3) it is at the core a defensive move against platform disintermediation and fee leakage. By launching their own BTC ETF after IBIT already consolidated liquidity, Morgan Stanley is implicitly acknowledging a hard truth: DISTRIBUTION owns the customer, not product superiority. They are not going to let advisors default to third parties by outsourcing the the economic rent. that's why at first glance while this launch looks irrational through a pure AUM lens, also totally inevitable through a PLATFORM ECONOMICS lens
when i think about all these three things, im even more bullish about @bitwise- it means the TAM is bigger, the social capital more important, and distribution more powerful as the platform advantages that are uniquely verticalized for crypto become even more proprietary. Noone understands this and serves advisors in better than Bitwise, already the leader in the #1 crypto index ETF in the US, #1 leader in Solana ETF, and in my humbly biased opinion, the #1 value-add Bitcoin and crypto access provider across its integrated staking solutions and custom strategies
bullish Morgan Stanley and Bitwise as a proud alum of both
🚨 Santiment Alert: After #BTC surged above $94.4K, social mentions of "$100K" hit a local high – classic crowd euphoria!
Historically:
🟦 High bars when crowd expects downside (FUD) - $BTC rallies
🟥 High bars when crowd expects upside (greed) - $BTC corrects
Bearish contrarian signal for now. Watch for greed to cool off! 📉🔥 #Bitcoin #Crypto
MSCI confirmed Digital Asset Treasury Companies will remain in MSCI Indexes for the Feb 2026 review. A strong outcome for neutral indexing and economic reality. Thank you to our investors and the $BTC community.
In 2014, Changpeng Zhao (@cz_binance ) sold his apartment for 1,500 Bitcoin - when $BTC was worth ~$600 each.
Today, that same apartment is valued at roughly $1.5 million.
Those 1,500 BTC? Now worth ~$188 million.
Talk about the ultimate "HODL" regret… or the best decision ever? 😅
#Bitcoin #Crypto #HODL
🎅 Santa Rally in metals takes a pause...
🔻 Gold -2%
🔻 Silver -6%
🔻 Copper -5%
🔻 Platinum -7%
🔻 Palladium -11%
After an epic year of gains, precious and industrial metals are pulling back in thin holiday trading. Normal profit-taking or something more?
#Commodities #Gold #Silver #Metals
Fake Gold Alert 🚨 @PeterSchiff
Hey gold bug, remember the massive Chinese fraud where companies like Kingold Jewelry pledged billions in "gold" collateral... only to be gilded copper fakes? Banks, insurers, and buyers got wrecked trusting those shiny bars without proper assays. Billions lost to counterfeits.
This is why physical gold ALWAYS carries counterparty and fraud risk. Vaults, tests, trust in humans who can fake it perfectly.
Bitcoin? Verified globally every ~10 minutes by the network. No trust, no fakes-pure math.
You keep stacking bars that could be counterfeit tungsten or copper-plated junk. BTC maxis stack sats that are provably real and impossible to forge.
In a world drowning in fakes, only one "gold" can't be counterfeited. 🥇➡️₿
Fake Gold Alert 🚨 @PeterSchiff
Hey gold bug, remember the massive Chinese fraud where companies like Kingold Jewelry pledged billions in "gold" collateral... only to be gilded copper fakes? Banks, insurers, and buyers got wrecked trusting those shiny bars without proper assays. Billions lost to counterfeits.
This is why physical gold ALWAYS carries counterparty and fraud risk. Vaults, tests, trust in humans who can fake it perfectly.
Bitcoin? Verified globally every ~10 minutes by the network. No trust, no fakes-pure math.
You keep stacking bars that could be counterfeit tungsten or copper-plated junk. BTC maxis stack sats that are provably real and impossible to forge.
In a world drowning in fakes, only one "gold" can't be counterfeited. 🥇➡️₿
#Bitcoin #Gold #PeterSchiff #FUD
349 pages of the new Messari Crypto Thesis report distilled into one thread-worthy post. This is the sharpest, most ruthless take on the state of crypto you’ll read in 2025. Here are the core bullets that will make you rethink everything:
- The ideological era is dead. Hype slogans, memes, “to the moon” narratives — no longer move markets.
- Bitcoin has officially graduated from “crypto”. It’s now an institutional asset. ETFs and corporate treasuries made it untouchable. BTC is no longer competing with altcoins.
- Stablecoins are the only true product success story in crypto history. But they’re rapidly becoming an extension of U.S. monetary policy. The Fed is effectively outsourcing its balance sheet.
- Layer-1s and Layer-2s are winning as technology — but as investments, they’re mostly garbage. Capital efficiency, tokenomics, and dilution are killing returns.
- AI + crypto is still mostly packaging and vaporware. Real, production-grade AI agents on-chain are years away.
- Altcoins have lost retail attention forever. It’s fundamentals or nothing now. Narrative trades are dead.
- Crypto has become brutally unforgiving. Mistakes are punished instantly and severely. There is no more “buy the dip” forgiveness.
The single most brutal conclusion of the entire report:
“Crypto has still not become necessary for daily life.”
After 16 years, the market has only validated three use cases at scale:
1. Trading
2. Payments
3. Yield generation
Why Bitcoin stands completely alone:
- BTC doesn’t win on technology or utility.
- The market simply decided to treat it as money.
- That “monetary premium” is massive for Bitcoin — and has almost completely vanished from the rest of the crypto ecosystem.
This is not hopium. This is cold, institutional-grade analysis. Messari is telling funds, traders, and whales exactly what the next decade of crypto will look like.
If you���re still holding alts for “the next bull run,” this report is a wake-up call. If you’re all-in on BTC and stablecoin yield, you’re probably positioned better than 95% of the space.
Read it. Digest it. Then decide who you are in this new reality.
#Crypto #Bitcoin #Messari #Ethereum #Altcoins #Stablecoins