How Celsius Got a Fraction of What They Wanted: Tether Settles for a Mere $299.5M

The Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium (BRIC), the group tasked with cleaning up Celsius’s financial mess, announced the deal. And who are these noble folks? A merry band of investment firms GXD Labs and VanEck, who joined forces to recover money from the complicated wreckage of crypto bankruptcies. They sound like the Avengers of the blockchain world, don’t they? 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

🤑 Uncle Sam’s Crypto Hoard: 324,625 BTCs and Counting! 🤑

Chen Zhi, the mastermind behind the Prince Holding Group (no, not that kind of prince-more like the “hold my beer and watch this” kind), is currently playing a thrilling game of hide-and-seek with the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam has gleefully pocketed the spoils, private keys and all. How they got their hands on those keys? Well, that’s a mystery deeper than the bottom of a dwarf’s beer barrel. 🕵️♂️🔐

Ethereum’s Fusaka: A Carnival of Code 🎪🚀

This upgrade, the second act in a three-part tragicomedy known as the Fusaka roadmap, follows the Holesky testnet’s debut on October 1st. Sepolia, ever the diligent understudy, now takes center stage to stress-test the network’s new data-availability system and its audacious block gas limit. Soon, the Hoodi testnet will inherit this theatrical burden, a final dress rehearsal before the mainnet’s December premiere. 🎭🔍

Crypto King Garrett Jin’s Trump Scandal: Coincidence or Conspiracy? 🎩💼💸

Meet Garrett Bullish (alias: “I Absolutely Did Not See This Coming, Officer”), whose online sleuths swear is one “Garrett Jin.” In a X meltdown, he swears he’s never met a Trump, never mind taken clandestine tips from one. His defense? “I’m just really good at staring at charts while the world burns!” 📉✨ The controversy allegedly started after Binance’s CZ casually dropped Bullish’s personal info like a mic drop, turning the internet into a digital lynch mob. 🕵️♂️

Powell’s Speech: Crypto’s Tense Dance with Chaos 🕵️‍♂️💸

Bitcoin, that fickle lover, slipped below $112K, leaving the market in a state of existential dread. The global crypto market cap, ever the drama queen, edged lower, with Ethereum, BNB, and XRP also posting losses. Traders, those brave souls, remain cautious following the massive $19 billion liquidation earlier this month. Market participants, balancing recovery hopes with risk management, seem to be playing a game of chess with a deck of cards. 🃏🌀