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Anyway, this whole optimistic vibe has made some companies, shall we say, *bold*. Thumzup Media, a company I’d never heard of before (but which apparently has “strong political ties” – always a good sign 🙄) has decided to throw a hefty $50 million at the whole crypto thing. Fundraising, mining operations, the whole shebang. A bit much, isn’t it?

Cardano (ADA) has finally moved above a descending trendline that had been holding it back since late 2024. 📈 This move came with a weekly gain of over 22%, which helped ADA surge to just over $1. The trendline break appears on strong volume, showing firm activity around this level (because momentum is everything).

“ETH is *the* macro trade for the next 10 to 15 years,” gushed Fundstrat’s CIO Thomas Lee, probably while sipping a latte and staring at charts. “AI is turning the blockchain into a token economy, and Wall Street’s jumping on the bandwagon like it’s the last helicopter out of 2008.” 🚁💼

Following a most unseemly tumble, Cardano found solace near the seventy-six and a half cent mark – as Bitcoin and Ethereum, in their wisdom, also did. And lo, it conquered the eighty and eighty-five cent strongholds!

Yet, as the sun rose over the Nasdaq, the investors, those fickle souls, did recoil in horror, their collective spirit crushed beneath the weight of a stock price that plummeted with the grace of a fallen angel. A tragedy, nay, a calamity, for the shares of ALT5 Sigma, once soaring near $20, now languished at a mere $6.60, a spectacle of despair. 📉

Now, these chaps aren’t just mucking about with any old mining rig, oh no. They’re planning to deploy their capital toward what they call “advanced, energy-efficient Bitcoin mining infrastructure.” Sounds frightfully impressive, doesn’t it? Though one can’t help but wonder if it’s just a fancy way of saying they’ve got a newfangled machine that doesn’t guzzle as much electricity as the old ones. Still, hats off to them for trying to keep the planet from turning into a giant sauna. 🌍🔌

Whoart thou, Thumzup? Originally a modest platform promising young influencers the hope of free protein powder in exchange for their immortal souls-sorry, “brand exposure”-it has of late discovered that nothing warms investor hearts like the word “Bitcoin.” The fit was natural: if you can puff mascara, surely you can pump crypto, and with far fewer ingredients to list on the label. 😉

Ah, Microstrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a name that now dances upon the lips of investors, has found itself trading at a premium to the value of its underlying bitcoin. This curious phenomenon reflects not merely the whims of the market but rather a series of structural advantages that are as elusive as a shadow in the night. The premium, dear reader, is measured against the company’s net asset value (NAV), which, if one dares to ponder, represents the worth of its bitcoin holdings after the inevitable toll of liabilities has been accounted for. On the fateful day of August 13, Saylor took to the social media platform X, proclaiming:

Imagine a world where hackers from North Korea aren’t just hacking but moonlighting as job candidates, complete with voice changers and AI magic tricks. Binance, the ever-vigilant gatekeeper of digital gold, has issued a warning that these cyber Jaegers have escalated their game to the level of “we will infiltrate your company by pretending to want to work here.”