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The results, unveiled on February 26, wrapped up a year that was more up-and-down than a broomstick ride over the Ramtops. Easton, Maryland’s favorite miner showed strong annual growth on one hand and a quarterly performance that made you go, “Did a gremlin eat the numbers?”

For years, the ledger’s growth was a monologue-a symphony conducted by a single hand, dishing out grants and builder programs with the generosity of a tsar. But now, the script shifts. The old ways of centralized largesse are replaced by a cacophony of voices, a chorus of independent hubs, VCs, and DAOs, all vying to fund the next great Russian novel of decentralized finance.

Hey, BlackRock has slapped its name on a DeFi project, and Uniswap is still looking like a decent middle‑class investment-not a runaway ticket to the moon. Meta said it would make stablecoins as accessible as TikTok memes, but the market answered, “Fine, do what you want, I’m still waiting for a robin” – and sometimes even fell when it heard about it.

In comments penned in 2026, Wales declared Bitcoin’s survival depends on a miracle-or a software patch. “The community will fork,” he said, as if that’s a comforting thought. Forks? More like a knife to the heart.

It is with great astonishment-and perhaps a touch of exasperation-that we recount the recent misadventure of South Korea’s National Tax Service, whose negligence has led to the most lamentable loss of $4.8 million in cryptocurrency. One must wonder how such an egregious error could occur when a press release, intended to showcase seized assets, instead became a veritable invitation to thieves.

Unlike those tedious old Bitcoin [BTC] or Ethereum [ETH] ETFs, which lazily track a single asset class, the GIF ETF is a more adventurous beast. It spreads its risk across multiple stocks-tech, retail, healthcare, and yes, even crypto-related sectors. It’s a structural approach that aims to be broad, diverse, and possibly a little too ambitious for its own good.

Russia, Iran, and the United Nations, ever the concerned chaperones at this geopolitical masquerade, urged restraint. One imagines them sighing into their telegrams, warning that a prolonged tiff between nuclear-armed neighbors might spoil the region’s fragile economic soiree. How tedious for everyone involved.