Arthur Hayes: Crypto Perps Will Kill Stock Exchanges! 🚀💥

His prophecy arrives as U.S. and Asian exchanges, like CBOE and SGX, prepare to unveil their own perpetual products by 2025. Hayes, ever the prophet of disruption, frames this as an “adapt or die” moment for TradFi, warning that if these old guard exchanges fail to mimic crypto’s perp model, they shall wither into irrelevance, like a moth to the flame of innovation. 🔥

Bitcoin’s $100k Dream: 74% Say ‘No Way!’

The rally is still more of a reflexive recovery than a trend reversal, despite Bitcoin’s dramatic comeback off sub-$85,000 lows. Bitcoin is grinding into the underside of a dense resistance cluster on the chart. The 20-EMA, 50-EMA and 100-EMA all converge at $99,000-$104,000 and slope downward, creating a barrier that has historically required significant momentum to breach. 🐢📉

Bitcoin’s Struggle Continues: Miners Feeling the Pain, But Not the Bottom… Yet!

Analyst Ali Martinez, in a post on the ever-entertaining X (formerly Twitter), discusses the latest grim trend in the Bitcoin Puell Multiple. For those unfamiliar, the “Puell Multiple” measures the ratio of the daily BTC mining revenue (in USD, mind you) to the 365-day moving average of the same revenue. Sounds complicated? Don’t worry, it’s just a fancy way to say miners are getting less than they used to.

Stablecoins: The Next Big Thing? 😱

He doth prophesy, with the zeal of a market-day preacher, a future brimming with no fewer than one hundred thousand issuers! Imagine, if you will, the paperwork! The accounting! The sheer, unmitigated bother! One shudders to think. Truly, a task fit only for the most dedicated, or the most utterly foolish. 🤔

Will BitMine’s Ethereum Hoarding Save or Sink Markets? 🤔

BitMine Holdings

And yet, despite this grand pilgrimage of capital towards Ethereum – a sumptuous feast of millions eagerly offered – the price of ETH stubbornly languishes, trading with all the enthusiasm of a snail at $3000. Arkham Intelligence data paints a grimly amusing picture: this transaction on November 28 was but a single note in BitMine’s symphony, contributing to a spendthrift ambition to possess no less than 5% of Ethereum’s entire bounty.