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Key support levels: 15 cents-a pittance, but the bulls are guarding it like it’s Fort Knox.

Key support levels: $1 (because who doesn’t love a good bargain?)

Well, I’ll be jiggered! Bitcoin, that old rascal, has gone and climbed to just shy of $72,000, hitting a one-month high and giving the crypto market a bit of a pep in its step, even as the Middle East goes all pear-shaped and traditional markets take a tumble. Dashed sporting of it, what?

Bitcoin rallied to $71,800, basically flipping the bird to the risk-off sentiment that’s been cramping everyone’s style in U.S. equities. Take that, pessimism!

Apparently, spot Bitcoin ETFs are the new black, with five straight days of inflows because, you know, who doesn’t love a good financial trend? Binance’s buy-to-sell ratio hit 1.18, which is basically the equivalent of a standing ovation in the crypto world. Volumes are soaring past $1 billion per hour, which is more than I’ve spent on Amazon this month (but just barely).

Ah, the crypto market-a grand ball where Bitcoin reigns as the aging but reliable duke, while Ethereum, the once-promising heir, stumbles over its own feet. Solana, ever the ambitious newcomer, lingers by the punch bowl, and XRP, the distant cousin no one invited, sneaks in through the back door.

That staggering loss has stirred conversations more acutely than a scandal in a velvet drawing room, as a major token unlock approaches like a melodramatic curtain.

Bitgo Europe GmbH, a name that rolls off the tongue with the gravitas of a Napoleonic decree, has declared its dominion over the European Economic Area (EEA) as of March 2026. The proclamation allows the grandees of European banking and the upstarts of fintech to herd their flocks into the fold of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework. A bureaucratic triumph, no doubt, but one that speaks to the inexorable march of progress, or perhaps, the inevitable surrender to the whims of the market.

Bybit says it prevented $300 million in scam-related losses in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a major milestone in its AI-driven security overhaul.

The White House, not one to miss a good drama, has chimed in with an “extremely pointed message” to banks, telling them to stop “undercutting The Genius Act” (yes, that’s a real thing) and holding The Clarity Act “hostage.” All this while raking in “record profits,” because apparently, banks are the villains in this financial soap opera. Who knew?