🇺🇸 The USA is again on the brink of a shutdown - the funding for the DHS Ministry expires on February 13th

Democrats and Republicans are again bickering over reforms and money for ICE, preparing to block the government's work again❌

Just at the beginning of February, they endured a 4-day shutdown, and in the fall of 2025, they were in a record-breaking 43-day shutdown. The nerds hadn't even had time to catch their breath and now it's happening again.

🗓 An important nuance is that due to the upcoming Congressional holidays, this situation could drag on for a long time.

For those who don't understand, a shutdown often equals a crypto dump 📉

📊 The best traders of 2025? No, it's just the US Congress.

While you're rejoicing over your pitiful +7%, the guys from the government are calmly outperforming the S&P 500 (+16.8%) in their investments.

Warren Davidson — +78.8%.
Donald Norcross — +70.8%.
Teri Sewell — +67.9%.

Interestingly, Republicans and Democrats alike are adept at navigating the market. So to speak, a rare bipartisan consensus - when it comes to profits 🐱

And, of course, none of them have been caught in insider trading.
Simply incredible intuition. Almost a gift.

📉 Bloomberg has unleashed a batch of selective FUD - they're scaring people with a Bitcoin dump to $10,000

Their resident strategist Mike McGlone (who accurately predicted the 2022 dump and some rallies, like the gold rise) has again predicted that if the US stock market (S&P 500) enters a bearish phase, crypto will collapse like a house of cards ⬇️

The scenario is as follows: first, a rally to $56k, and in the "base negative" scenario - a total crash to $10,000.

As arguments: stocks are overheated, volatility is "anomalously low", and smart capital is allegedly already packing its bags and moving into gold and silver.

The short-sellers have completely lost their instinct for self-preservation

⬇️ There are currently $8 billion of shorts open in the market, compared to a mere $200 million of longs. The imbalance is simply historic.

Just recently, market makers already staged a demonstrative punishment - a short-squeeze technically wiped out $400 million of positions.

If the price were to give even a minimal upward impulse, a chain reaction of margin calls could be triggered. The panic selling and liquidations of short-sellers will become rocket fuel for Bitcoin's pump, even without any news 🚀

👀 Crypto Market Overview

Events in Iran did not cause much panic upon the opening of the markets. Brent oil and precious metals surged in response. The S&P 500 futures only fell by 1%, as all events are already priced in.

🪙 BTC is trading around $66,501
🔷 ETH is fluctuating around $1,959
📈 The biggest increase of the day was shown by NEAR +13.2%
📉 The biggest drop was shown by KITE -18.9%

📊 Indicators:
😨 Fear and Greed Index - 20
💵 Altseason Index - 36
📈 Long/Short Ratio - 51/49
🤑 Crypto Market Capitalization - $2.27 trillion
👑 Bitcoin Dominance - 58.79%

🪙 Over the past two weeks, nearly 30,000 BTC have been withdrawn from crypto exchanges.

💸 Iranian cryptocurrency enthusiasts are massively withdrawing crypto. Users of the largest exchange Nobitex have experienced panic and an outflow has increased by 700%.

🦄 Uniswap won a lawsuit over scam tokens. The court dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Uniswap Labs and its founder.

🇹🇷 In Turkey, it was proposed to introduce a 10% tax on crypto income.

🕕 Strategy purchased 3,015 BTC for $204.1 million at a price of $67,700.

AlphaTON received a notice from Nasdaq about non-compliance with the minimum bid price of $1 per share for 30 days and has until August 31, 2026 to recover.

🔮 Forecast:

Bitcoin showed another attempt to break $70k, which failed to hold. The dynamics then gradually declined, and it would now be logical to retest the lower boundary of the sideways trend.

👮 The FBI arrested a guy who stole $90 million in cryptocurrency right under the US government's nose.

Let me remind you of John Dugit, the son of a top manager of the office that stored confiscated assets of the US Marshals Service, who simply cleaned out the government's coffers.

The guy was skillfully arrested on the island of Saint Martin during a joint raid by American special services and the French gendarmerie.

If he had just laid low with his millions, he might not have been found. But like all mama's boys who scam people, his ego got the better of him and he started showing off his stolen cash right on Telegram.

Money loves silence 🐱

☄️ Aave has rolled out protection

The developers have finished digging into the logs of that incident when a clueless whale burned $50 million in a single click for tokens worth $36k, and decided to take radical action.

🛡 They are urgently implementing a new feature called "Aave Shield" into the protocol. Now, this script will automatically block any swaps if their price impact exceeds 25%.

No more warning red notifications that clueless users still ignore - the system will simply physically prevent the transaction from going through.

👀 Crypto Market Overview

📈 Bitcoin surged to $76k, after which it slightly corrected. Over the past 24 hours, $376 million of short positions were liquidated.

🪙 BTC is trading around - $74,382
🔷 ETH is fluctuating around - $2,334
📈 The biggest increase over the past 24 hours was - M +16.7%
📉 The biggest drop was - PI -10.5%

📊 Indicators:
😨 Fear and Greed Index - 43
💵 Altseason Index - 55
📈 Long/Short Ratio - 51/49
💵 Crypto Market Capitalization - $2.52 trillion.
👑 Bitcoin Dominance - 59.10%

🐱 Trump demanded that the Fed urgently hold an extraordinary meeting to lower the rate. Although the meeting was already scheduled for March 18. He also called on China and Japan to participate in the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

💸 Banks and investment companies are not allowing clients to withdraw more than $160 billion from credit funds.

💸 Nvidia announced $1 trillion in total revenue by the end of 2027.

The SEC wants to remove crypto from some OTC market rules and change the regulation of over-the-counter trading.

⌛ OpenSea is postponing the launch of the SEA token indefinitely due to weak conditions in the crypto market.

🔮 Forecast:

There is a local rise in Bitcoin, we broke $74k and also tested $76k, from which we got a rebound. If we hold above $74k, then there will be chances of a move to the $80k area. If not, we may well fall back, and this breakout, like the last one, will turn out to be false.