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The good folks at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released some job data that made Wall Street do a happy dance on Thursday. The economy added a solid 147,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dropped to a cozy 4.1%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin? It barely twitched. But hey, stocks went bananas, especially since the “experts” thought we’d only see 110,000 new jobs and an uptick in unemployment to 4.3%. Guess they were a tad off, eh?

Behold! The picture is clear as the bottom of a wine bottle at the end of a Parisian soirée: the future jangles not between stodgy banks and crypto wizards, but in the miraculous blending of both—like an accountant who secretly loves Molière’s comedies.

The situation combines massive financial resources, political strain, and Elon Musk’s efforts to redefine the future of artificial intelligence.

He conjured up from the archives an interview, a time-capsule with Raoul Pal – imagine a dinner party thrown by fate itself, with Saylor as the impassive winter and Pal as a financial Don Quixote. Pal dubbed the encounter as the lightning that kindled imagination in the year 2020, clarifying the cryptic fever that led company treasurers to whisper Bitcoin, feverishly, into the night.

The financial landscape is fickle—the wind shifting from baguette-profit days to the cacophony of digital gold. Thus, businesses, their eyes bleary with sleepless anticipation, perform a waltz towards Bitcoin’s volatile embrace. Vanadi Coffee, with its six outposts of roasted hope, has secured approval to not just pour coffee but pour capital into crypto. Only time will tell if they’ve brewed fortune or disaster.

Employed as Senior Vice President—and naturally, Director of Purchasing, for the sake of poetic irony—Amy Jo orchestrated an opera of mischief, robbing her own employer of $411,923. One might say she pursued the American dream, except her method involved more “creative accounting” than most dreams require.

Bitvavo CEO Mark Nuvelstijn emerged blinking into the regulatory daylight and solemnly declared,

Enter stage left: analyst Michaël van de Poppe, declaring that Bitcoin now has “an extremely bullish setup.” Which, translated from Analyst into English, means it’s time to make dramatic hand gestures towards the future. There’s talk of a new all-time high that could arrive as soon as this week—so, hold onto your digital wallets and your faint hopes.

Not much to report on the Bitcoin front—unless you count “absolutely nothing” as a scoop. The price is loitering at $107,000, testing everyone’s patience (and possibly moonlighting as a stablecoin just to keep us on our toes). Volatility has taken the day off—liquidations are only down 4%, which means the bulls are at least pretending to do something important. Bravo, lads.

Sure, these tokens make the crazy world of crypto look almost functional: swaps, loans, late-night cross-border transfers that sound a little shadier than Venmo-ing your mate for pizza. But the billion-dollar question: are these digital poker chips actual “money,” or just Monopoly pieces for adults with trust issues?