Now, this isn’t just any old hub. Oh no, it’s a grand complex with enough luxury retail to make your credit card cry, premium residences to make your neighbors green with envy, and a whopping 52,780 square feet of coworking space. That’s more space than my last three apartments combined! 🏠💼
After ascending to the giddy heights of 976 exahash per second (EH/s), a number so grandiose it could only be dreamed up by a mathematician on a bender, the network’s computational prowess plummeted below the 900 EH/s threshold faster than a socialite fleeing a scandal. By Monday, August 18, 2025, the global hashrate, like a phoenix with a penchant for drama, had rebounded to 966.08 EH/s.
Our favorite digital diva slid more than 2% in just 24 hours, lounging at $115,200 on Monday like it’s no big deal. But wait-there’s more! Weak U.S. economic data, fading investor confidence, and fewer rate-cut dreams from the Federal Reserve have turned the mood sourer than a lemonade stand in a thunderstorm ⚡🍋. Can Bitcoin bounce back? Who knows?! But for now, doubts are flying faster than rubber chickens in a slapstick comedy sketch 🐔.
Ce braves gens, véritables pionniers, deviennent soudain les premiers à faire briller la transparence comme un miroir sans tache : une seule et unique valeur, sans déguisement ni maquillage, sur leurs balances perpétuelles – mon Dieu, quelle redoutable clarté ! Et tout cela, parce que Monsieur Flipster n’aime point les coûts voilés ou dissimulés. Quoique, il faut bien l’avouer, que ces spreads invisibles ressemblaient à ces bandits de grands chemins : dissimulés dans l’ombre, drainant davantage de profit que la vache à lait elle-même. 🐄🔍
Let’s talk numbers. Institutional holdings have surged from about 600K BTC at the start of the year to nearly a million today-a whopping 65% increase. And get this: even during Bitcoin’s 30% sell-off earlier this year, public companies didn’t panic-sell; they kept stacking sats like squirrels hoarding acorns for winter. Behold the chart below-a masterpiece of human greed and stubbornness:
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) waddled to $0.031 at press time, down 6% in the last 24 hours and 21% over the past week. The token soared to about $0.047 before gravity decided it had enough. Now, it’s eyeing a major support point at $0.025, like a penguin on the edge of an ice cliff, contemplating its next move.
Take a look at that beautiful trendline, my friends. Solana continues its march upward, with its price holding steady above it, like a valiant knight standing guard. Every bounce strengthens the higher-low pattern-an age-old signal that the bulls are in charge. If this trendline survives, we might be seeing a move beyond the $190 to $200 resistance zone, pushing Solana toward higher targets. And who doesn’t love a good climb? 🚀
Our self-confessed wizard Darkfost-imagine a man in a velvet jacket who consults graphs the way fortune-tellers read coffee grounds-leans over the parapet of Platform X and whispers: “The mood has shifted, dear citizens.”
Lo and behold, after climbing to the vertiginous height of 1.35 million Bitcoin-days on the 23rd of July, the indicator has tumbled down the staircase like a tipsy duchess.
Translation: the gray-haired whales are now hodling rather than dumping. They hug their digital mattresses tighter than a Muscovite hugs a radiator in January.
Crypto’s taking a bit of a nosedive-Bitcoin, Ether, and others dipped, but Chainlink’s LINK kept a stiff upper lip. Solana? Oh, just hitting a speed record, darling. Japan’s idea of a yen-backed stablecoin is being hailed as some sort of game changer, or possibly just a good excuse to buy more sushi.
Crypto and institutional finance, once as distant as the moon and a toaster, now dance together. On Monday, August 18, BTSC declared a $0.05 per share dividend in Ethereum. A first in the annals of public companies, though one might question if it’s a triumph or a trick. 🕵️♂️