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In a post shared on X, Saylor, that paragon of modern finance, extolled the virtues of his firm’s pivot to Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset on the fateful 10th of August 2020. A date, he insists, marked the dawn of the “Bitcoin Standard Era.” 🌟

Can social media become a serious financial platform? If by “serious” you mean a place where people argue about pizza toppings and now also trade crypto, then sure, why not?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a corporation in possession of capital must be in want of crypto exposure-though South Korea’s regulators seem determined to make this courtship as awkward as a quadrille at Netherfield. The nation’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), ever the vigilant guardian of capital, has decreed that corporations may now tiptoe back into the crypto arena, albeit shackled by rules so precise they’d make Lady Catherine de Bourgh blush. 🛑📉

Apparently, privacy coins are more elusive than a white whale, sporting features designed to vanish, hide and do the hokey pokey-transactions here, transactions there. Elizabeth Wallace, the ever-legal oracle of the DFSA, claims these coins are “nearly impossible” to track, as if they were Houdini’s latest act, slipping through regulatory nets with a wink and a whisper. Houdini might have been proud.

The IP volume swelled by 789%, a number so absurd it makes a billionaire’s coffee order look modest. Daily trading hit $157 million, a sum that would make a goldfish weep. And who, you ask, orchestrated this frenzy? The elusive Asian investors, of course! South Korea’s Upbit, with 45% of the volume ($70.8 million), played the lead role, while Coinbase’s paltry 2.82% might as well have been a cameo by a forgotten actor.

To provide a curious contrast, let us glance at the spot ETH ETFs-those behemoths, though they tower in absolute value, have been rather unceremoniously leaking assets since October of the year gone by. One must wonder, in this turbulent sea of cryptocurrency, will BlackRock, with its proverbial nose for profit, take the plunge into the waters of a spot XRP ETF?

Buterin, our intrepid choreographer, declares that Ethereum’s dance is not about fleeting trends but about power-who holds it, and who loses it. He sees today’s crypto darlings as mere puppets in a centralized play, their blockchain façades as thin as a courtier’s wit. Custodial finance apps? Profit-maximized platforms? Bah! They are but banks in sheep’s clothing. 🏦🐑

Amidst a market otherwise lazier than a nobleman after lunch, our beloved privacy coin dared to rise-nay, rocket-to a giddy new all-time high! Forsooth, while others snoozed, Monero thrust forth like a knight in chainmail at a masquerade! 🔥 And why? Because surveillance is so last season, my dear regulators! 👀🚫

The spectacle commenced on the fourth of January, in the year of our Lord 2026 (or thereabouts, for who keeps time in this circus?), and shall persist until the month’s end. A curious condition, this-only the virginal depositors, those who have never before crossed MEXC’s threshold with coin in hand, may partake. And lo! The deposit must be made through their P2P channel, lest the ordinary methods sully the purity of the transaction.

Gone are the days of simply signing up with a whimsical username and a vague promise to be nice. No, no! The new onboarding requirements are as intense as they are absurd. First up, you’ll need to take a live selfie – yes, that’s right, a selfie that proves you are, in fact, a living human being and not a particularly savvy catfish attempting to swim through the digital waters of crypto. 🐟📸