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X Rolls Out Handle Marketplace
X, formerly known as Twitter, is launching its long-awaited handle marketplace. Premium Plus and Business subscribers can now claim inactive usernames, with some reportedly selling for as much as one million dollars. Handles like @johnsmith are free while your subscription is active, but they’re revoked if you let that lapse. Rare handles, like @pizza, are sold permanently.
The system bans reselling and aims to crack down on bot hoarding and underground trading. Critics argue it turns usernames into digital rentals and highlights Elon Musk’s push toward subscription-based revenue. But it’s not just million-dollar names — the article mentioned handles like @Matt could go for around $2,500. Am I aping in? Probably not. I’d rather take that $2,500 and put it into Bitcoin — not financial advice, of course.
My Take: The digital identity market is here. What used to be a username is now an asset class, and it’s only a matter of time before someone tokenizes them on X.
Coinbase Calls for AML Reform
Coinbase has urged the U.S. Treasury to modernize anti-money-laundering laws, calling the current system broken and outdated. The exchange argued that today’s rules rely on paper-based KYC systems that no longer make sense in a digital financial world. It proposed safe harbors for firms using AI, blockchain analytics, and zero-knowledge proofs to verify identities.
The company noted that over twenty-five million FinCEN reports are filed each year, wasting resources and overburdening smaller fintech startups. The Treasury will collect feedback from across the industry before drafting its report on future AML reforms.
My Take: This is smart positioning by Coinbase. Instead of fighting regulation, they’re offering to help write it — and when you help write the rules, you get to shape the game.
The AI Trading Competition
A new autonomous trading competition hosted by N-of-1 gave several AI models $10,000 each to trade Bitcoin, Solana, and Dogecoin — completely without human input. Grok, DeepSeek, and Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 all gained over twenty-five percent, while ChatGPT 5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro lost roughly twenty-eight percent each.
Grok’s success likely comes from its real-time access to X’s sentiment data — still the fastest source for breaking crypto news. DeepSeek’s results show the edge of finance-tuned models over general-purpose ones. Regulators, meanwhile, are wary of “black box” trading systems that could trigger flash crashes.
My Take: This is fascinating, but one test isn’t proof of skill. Even traders get lucky on a single run. Still, if large models can consistently outperform humans in trading, markets may start trending toward “AI-on-AI” dynamics — and the human edge will shift to designing the AIs, not running them.
Prediction Markets Surge
Prediction markets hit a record two billion dollars in weekly volume as Polymarket overtook KaoShi, fueled by election-year speculation and institutional money. Sports and political contracts dominate activity, while smaller platforms continue to grow. KaoShi’s three hundred million dollars in USD flow and ICE’s two billion dollar stake in Polymarket mark the arrival of big players.
Analysts expect prediction markets to reach ninety-five billion dollars by 2035, cementing them as a core decentralized finance asset class.
My Take: That ninety-five billion dollar prediction might actually be conservative. In a world where people wager on everything from politics to CPI numbers, prediction markets are basically becoming “on-chain opinion trading.” It’s the purest form of capitalism — betting on what you believe.
CPI and Market Sentiment
The market is bracing for Friday’s CPI report, expected to show inflation ticking up slightly to three-point-one percent. Analysts don’t expect a major market impact unless the number surprises to the upside. For now, sentiment remains cautious.
My Take: CPI week always comes with nerves, but at this point, most of the inflation narrative is already priced in. What matters more is how liquidity moves after the print.
Listener Question: Jeroen Asks for an Unfiltered Bitcoin Prediction
Jeroen wrote in asking for my honest prediction on where Bitcoin goes next — are we heading into a bear market? I’ll be straight with you: I don’t know. Nobody does. The traditional four-year cycle would suggest we’ve already passed the peak, but this cycle isn’t traditional. ETFs accelerated the timeline, geopolitics added volatility, and we’re still navigating a partial government shutdown.
If Washington gets its act together and trade clarity with China improves, I think we’ll be up from here. Maybe not through the holidays — Q1 is usually choppy — but by late Q1 or early Q2, I see strength returning. If you bought near the ETF mania around seventy thousand, taking some profits now isn’t a bad move. Sit on a little cash. If we dip, buy the fear. If we rally, you’ll still be in profit. None of this is financial advice — we’re all just squirrels trying to get a nut.
Crypto Prices
Time: 8:14 a.m. Eastern
Fear & Greed Index: 33 (Fear)
RSI: 44.3 (Leaning oversold)
Bitcoin (BTC): $108,549, down 2.2% in 24 hours
Ethereum (ETH): $3,890, down 3.5%
Binance Coin (BNB): $1,076, down 3.2%
XRP: $2.42, down 0.8%
Solana (SOL): $186, down 3.0%
Tron (TRX): $0.321, down 0.3%
Dogecoin (DOGE): $0.194, down 2.8%
Cardano (ADA): $0.645, down 3.1%
Most major cryptos are down between one and five percent, signaling a market-wide cooldown. Liquidity continues to rise globally, and gold prices are climbing, which means capital is flowing — just not yet back into Bitcoin.
We’re still sitting above one hundred thousand Bitcoin, and that alone tells me the floor is stronger than most realize. Keep your emotions in check, zoom out, and keep your plan tight.
See you tomorrow.
Happy HODLing, everyone.
References & Affiliates
💬 X Handle Marketplace Sees Rare Usernames Selling for Seven Figures
🏦 Coinbase Treasury Pushes Tech Fixes After AML Rule Breaches
📊 Bitcoin Braces for First Inflation Test Since U.S. Government Shutdown
🤖 AI Crypto Trading Showdown: DeepSeek and Grok Surge as Gemini Implodes
📈 Prediction Markets Hit All-Time High in Trading Volume
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