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DeFi analyst Ignas, armed with a quill and a cup of absinthe, declared this the “most tragic dénouement since Hamlet’s soliloquy.”

Bitcoin, that stubborn old mule of the crypto world, was trading at $78,465 at the time of writing, up a respectable 5.2% in the last 24 hours. The rest of the crypto gang also decided to join the party, with the total market cap rising 2.8% to a cool $2.7 trillion. BNB, Cardano, and Avalanche all got their groove back, with gains of 5.3%, 7.2%, and 5.3% respectively. But don’t get too excited-the Crypto Fear & Greed Index is still stuck at a measly 17, which basically means everyone’s still hiding under their desks.

Behold, Bitcoin’s descent below the sacred $75,000 mark! A weekend plunge that has thrust Strategy’s colossal hoard of 712,647 BTC into the abyss of unrealized losses. A paper loss, they say, of over $900 million. A mere trifle, one might jest, for a man who bought his digital treasure at an average price of $76,037 per coin. Yet, the markets, those fickle harpies, have spoken, and the turning point is upon us.

Yes, darling, the token has leapt above its 20-day exponential moving average (EMA) with the grace of a Coward wit. A short-term trend shift, you say? How utterly thrilling! Buyers, those darlings, have reclaimed the reins after a tedious period of consolidation. Holding above the EMA? Why, it’s the social confirmation we’ve all been waiting for!

The implications, my dear reader, are as grand as a royal banquet! For Nakamoto’s hoard, untouched since the dawn of Bitcoin’s mining age, is a treasure of legend. Yet, a closer examination of the blockchain’s ledger reveals a comedy of errors, not a tragedy of sales.

According to Reuters, HKMA’s chief executive, Eddie Yue, tantalized the Legislative Council on February 2nd with the revelation that licenses would be distributed in March-a “very small number,” he coyly promised, while offering no more specifics than a Victorian poet might spare for a sonnet on porridge. A masterclass in vagueness, one might say.

“We ain’t got nothin’ to hide,” he declared, though the words tasted like stale bread in a world hungry for scandal. The ties, he claimed, were brief-a handshake at a party, a nod in the dark. Back painted a picture of 2014, when Blockstream’s seed fundraising was a fledgling bird, flapping its wings in the shadow of Joi Ito, the MIT Media Lab’s director. Through Ito, they met Epstein, who wore the hat of a limited partner in Ito’s fund like a borrowed suit. But the fund, after a few months, shed the stake like a snake shedding skin, citing “conflicts” and “concerns” that probably meant someone blinked first.

After a brief flirtation with $80,000-like a man trying on a new suit too tight for comfort-BTC slithered down to the mid-$74,000 range, its lowest since last year’s “crypto winter,” or as I call it, the Great Ice Age of Digital Gold. Ten months of pretending things were cozy, and now we’re all shivering in the cold light of reality.

Speaking to David Lin, the former congressman, now a sage of the backroads, paints a picture of a world drowning in debt, where the dollar is more fiction than currency. “This time,” he says, “the chickens are coming home to roost, and they’re hungry.”

Igor Runets, that cheeky chap who founded the crypto behemoth BitRiver, is now under the watchful eye of the authorities thanks to some sneaky tax evasion charges, as reported by Bloomberg on a rather gloomy Monday. He was whisked away on Friday, faced with three charges of asset concealment-oh dear!