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Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide is your go-to weekly podcast for the latest insights and updates in the world of digital assets and cryptocurrency. Join us as we explore market trends, investment strategies, and news that matter most to crypto enthusiasts and investors. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned trader, our expert discussions are designed to keep you informed and ahead in the ever-evolving crypto landscape. Tune in every week for your essential crypto guide. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Bitcoin Bounces Back From 60K Crash as XRP Surges and Gold Volatility Tops Crypto for First Time Since 2008

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your **Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide** for the week leading up to February 24, 2026. Buckle up—this week's been a wild ride through market crashes, bold moves, and glimmers of hope in the blockchain jungle. Kicking off with the big kahuna: **Bitcoin** took a brutal nosedive on February 6, plunging to $60,000—its lowest since September 2024—wiping out 18% in 24 hours amid mass liquidations, ETF outflows, and macro jitters, per FixedFloat's weekly roundup. Total market cap dipped to $2.3 trillion, but BTC clawed back to around $69,155. Fast-forward to Bitfinex Alpha's February 17 report: investors are piling back in, with long-term holders boosting supplies to 14.3 million coins as funding rates normalize and rate-cut hopes (maybe three in 2026!) spark optimism. Bloomberg Crypto on February 3 had Mike Novogratz calling it "closer to spring than winter," eyeing a $70K-$100K range bottom, while warning of immaturity in our 16-year-old market. But heads up—Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone from Phemex grimly predicts a potential drop to $10K if the bubble fully bursts, with $678 million yanked from BTC ETFs this month alone. Over on **Ethereum**, co-founder **Vitalik Buterin** stirred pots by offloading 493 ETH for $1.16 million, donating $500K USDC to his Kanro foundation for pandemic research, as spotted by Lookonchain via FixedFloat. ETH's hurting too, down 20% weekly to $2,078. Bright spot? **XRP** surged 18.6% to $1.53, outpacing BTC's measly 2.5% rebound. Ripple and XRPL devs unveiled DeFi expansions for payments, lending, and wealth management, cementing XRP as the go-to settlement king. Mining drama: BTC difficulty crashed 11.16% to 125.86T—the biggest drop since China's 2021 ban—thanks to hashrate rebounds to 1.3 EH/s post-winter storms, says Glassnode in FixedFloat. Traditional assets flipped the script—**gold** volatility hit 44%, topping BTC's 39% for the first time since 2008, per Bloomberg, after a 10% plunge from $5,600 highs. **MetaMask** leveled up, partnering with **Ondo Finance** to let users swap USDC for tokenized stocks and ETFs on Ethereum—RWA volumes up 19% to $1B, holders nearing 300K. Binance's February 17 update pegs total market cap at $2.33T, down 1.15%, hinting BTC's at a policy-driven turning point amid AI risks. Thanks for tuning in, crypto crew—catch you next week for more decoded action! This has been a Quiet Please production—for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay stacked, stay safe! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  2. 4 DAYS AGO

    Crypto Bleeds Five Months Straight But Tariff Rollback Sparks Hope as Bitcoin Eyes 70K

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your **Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide** for the week ending February 21, 2026. Buckle up, it's been a wild ride through red months and sneaky rebounds—let's decode it all. Crypto's been bleeding slow and steady, with five straight negative months since October, Bitcoin dropping $10k to $15k each time, per Santiment's This Week in Crypto summary. No big capitulation, just frustrating gradual pain. But hey, a massive 6-3 vote rolled back Trump-era tariffs from April 2025, lifting a macro anchor—markets perked up, Bitcoin hitting $69,595 on Binance's February 14 update, up 4.18% in 24 hours as global cap climbed to $2.38T. Retail's scooping dips like candy, but watch out: institutional wallets (10-10k BTC holders) dumped 0.5% of total supply in five weeks, Santiment warns of this dangerous divergence. Bitcoin's 30-day MVRV at -6%, Ethereum's at -15%—prime scaling zones, math's on your side. Sentiment's shifting too: FOMO's fading, no more $150k Bitcoin calls or Lambo memes, a healthy purge of speculators. Ethereum's buzzing with positive vibes over Bitcoin's neutral, while BNB lags post-liquidations. Prices? Binance Square pegged BTC consolidating $65k-$67k mid-week amid bearish vibes and China cracking down on virtual currencies. ETH dipped below $2k but rebounded to $2,076 (+5.93%), Solana hit $85.89 (+7.7%), XRP $1.45 (+6%). Outperformers like OM (+45%), TAO (+32%), and COMP (+22%) stole the show. MEXC News on Feb 20 hailed altcoin surges, MORPHO up 83% to $1.39, eyeing $1.66 breakout. VanEck's Matthew Sigel nailed it: February's 20% BTC drop to -47.5% drawdown was orderly deleveraging, not panic—$3-4B liquidations, but volatility's half of 2022's bear. Bitcoin's -2.88σ below 200-day MA, extreme but no structural damage, just AI trade spillover hitting miners. Macro's key: Fed's Goolsbee hints rate cuts if inflation cools, per Binance. S&P's dragging BTC, gold up 4%. Actionable? Eye CPI fallout, light positions on BTC $65.5k longs, strict stops. Thanks for tuning in, pals—catch you next week for more! This has been a Quiet Please production—for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay stacked! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  3. 17 FEB

    Bitcoin Consolidates Near 68K as Whales Accumulate and CPI Data Sparks Rate Cut Hopes

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your **Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide** for the week leading up to February 17, 2026. Buckle up, we've had a wild ride through market chills, whale moves, and macro sparks—let's decode it all like we're grabbing coffee together. Kicking off with the big picture: Bitcoin's been in **February consolidation mode**, dipping to $68,362 today per Finance Magnates, down 0.74%, while Ethereum slides 0.85% to $1,981. We're still 50% off all-time highs after that brutal January-February drop—analysts at Finance Magnates call it "genuine distress." Earlier shocks hit hard: FixedFloat reports BTC crashed to $60,000 on February 6, the lowest since September 2024, with a whopping $2.3 billion in realized losses by February 13, per CryptoQuant via MEXC—one of the top capitulation events ever. Short-term holders got wrecked, BTC hovering 47% below October's peak. But hold up, relief's brewing! Santiment's weekly summary nails it: cooler-than-expected CPI at 2.4% (core 2.5%) reignited Fed rate cut hopes, pushing BTC toward $70k with a 5% pump. Whales (10-10k BTC holders) scooped 18,290 BTC in four days, MVRV at -29% screams low-risk accumulation zone, and negative funding rates hint at a short squeeze. VanEck adds it's orderly deleveraging—futures open interest plunged 20% to $49 billion from $61 billion. Bitcoin mining difficulty also tanked 11.16% to 125.86T, biggest drop since China's 2021 crackdown, per FixedFloat. Altcoin vibes? XRP crushed it, up 18.6% to $1.53 on Ripple and XRPL's DeFi expansion push, FixedFloat says—even as BTC recovered just 2.5%. Ethereum co-founder **Vitalik Buterin** sold 493 ETH for $1.16 million, donating to his Kanro foundation via Lookonchain. Cardano's sliding toward channel support with meh 11% upside forecasts, per MEXC. Broader scene: altcoins outside top 10 now just 7.1% of market cap, Binance Research notes, with capital glued to majors and $160B stablecoins (13% of total crypto, MUFG says). Ethereum transactions hit ~3M highs post-Fusaka upgrade. Corporate wins: Coinbase stock surged 16% after repurchasing $1.7B in shares by February 10, CFO **Alesia Haas** calling the BTC reset a buy opportunity, per Times-Online. Politics heating up too—White House held a February 10 meeting on Bitcoin regulation, DL News reports. Macro's king now, per DL News and CME Group—BTC down 26% YTD as of February 12, but purging weak hands sets up breakouts. Gold's volatile too, down 10% to $4,400 after $5,600 highs. Whew, what a week of pain and promise—stack sats wisely, friends. Thanks for tuning in! Come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production—for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay decentralized! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  4. 14 FEB

    Bitcoin Crashes to 60K Then Rebounds While XRP Surges 18 Percent and MetaMask Brings Tokenized Stocks to Your Wallet

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your **Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide** for the wild week leading up to February 14, 2026. Buckle up, we've got crashes, rebounds, regs, and some serious blockchain buzz—like chatting crypto over coffee with your best buddy. Kicking off with the biggie: Bitcoin took a nosedive on February 6, plunging to $60,000—its lowest since September 2024—wiping out 18% in 24 hours amid mass liquidations, ETF outflows, and macro jitters, per FixedFloat's weekly roundup. Market cap dipped to $2.3 trillion, but BTC clawed back to $69,155 by week's end. On-chain signals? Stablecoin inflows hint at buyers lurking. Meanwhile, mining got a reset—difficulty dropped 11.16% to 125.86 T, the biggest since China's 2021 crackdown, as hashrate hit 1.3 EH/s and weaker miners capitulated, according to Glassnode and Unchained Crypto. Ethereum? Co-founder **Vitalik Buterin** sold 493 ETH for $1.16 million via Lookonchain-tracked txs, donating $500K USDC to his Kanro foundation fighting pandemics. ETH tanked 20% to $2,078, but Binance Square noted a 6.22% rebound to $2,022 by February 7. XRP stole the show, surging 18.6% to $1.53 after **Ripple** and **XRP Ledger** devs unveiled DeFi expansions for payments, lending, and wealth management, making XRPL an institutional beast—way outperforming BTC's measly 2.5% bounce, says FixedFloat. TradFi crossed over bigtime: **MetaMask** teamed with **Ondo Finance** to let users swap USDC for tokenized stocks and ETFs right in-wallet, as RWA volumes neared $1B with 300K holders. Gold's volatility spiked to 44%—beating BTC's 39%—after a 10% drop to $4,400/oz, Bloomberg reports, a rare flip echoing 2008 chaos. Reg side? U.S. gov holds a **Strategic Bitcoin Reserve** at ~$29B (up 50% YoY), ruling out interventions, per Binance Square. **Federal Reserve** eyes crypto payment rail access; **GENIUS Act** rules due July from Treasury. **Bank Policy Institute** praised White House market structure talks, while **SEC** ponders tokenized securities frameworks and "innovation exemptions." DOJ eased off exchanges, unsanctioned **Tornado Cash**; even **Starbucks** eyes stablecoin yields on gift card cash. Markets mixed on Binance: BNB at $638 (+2.35%), SOL $85 (+6.48%), DOGE $0.096 (+4.36%), global cap $2.33T up 3.45%. Sentiment? Turning point as Dow hit records and MSTR soared. Whew, what a rollercoaster—crypto's resilient as ever! Thanks for tuning in, pals—catch you next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production; for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay decentralized! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  5. 10 FEB

    Bitcoin Bloodbath Below 70K as Crypto Markets Face Orderly Deleveraging and Fear Index Hits 18

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide, recapping the wild week leading up to February 10, 2026. Buckle up—it's been a bloodbath, but with glimmers of hope. Bitcoin's taken a brutal hit, plunging below $70,000 and stabilizing around $69,000 after a 2.8% drop in the last 24 hours, per XTB's market analysis. IndexBox reports the CoinDesk 20 index down 3.7%, with Ether slipping 5% but holding above $2,000. Binance Square notes BTC smashing through $73,000 support, now eyeing $71,000 to $68,000 as key levels amid a fear index at 18. VanEck's Matthew Sigel breaks it down: this 20% YTD selloff is orderly deleveraging, not capitulation—BTC's -2.88 sigma below its 200-day moving average, a 10-year extreme, with $3-4 billion in liquidations but volatility half of 2022's bear market lows. Derivatives scream risk-off: open interest dropped from $19 billion to $16 billion, funding rates flipped negative, and options skew hit 20% for protection, says IndexBox. Bloomberg Crypto featured Mike Novogratz calling it closer to spring than winter, predicting a structure bill soon, while noting Trump's memecoin push—like his Trump Coin hitting $15 billion market cap. Cathie Wood stayed bullish per TheStreet, unfazed by the crash. On the token front, Rainbow Wallet's RNBW debut on Base network flopped hard—down 75% to $0.025 from $0.10 ICO, FDV at $31 million after distribution delays, per IndexBox. But stablecoins shine: Y Combinator now lets founders take funds in them, Fortune reports, echoing Stripe's Bridge buyout and Klarna's token launch—excitement's price-agnostic, says YC's Dalal. Macro woes fuel it: Fed rate cut hopes flipped to hikes, ETF outflows hit $272 million on Feb 3 alone per Investing.com, miners selling for AI capex per VanEck. CoinShares spots exhaustion—ETP volumes spiking, whales pausing sales. InstaForex dubs it "crypto winter," with BTC down over 50% since October. Hang tight, friends—this deleveraging could mean mean reversion soon. Thanks for tuning in—catch you next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me, check out QuietPlease.ai. Stay savvy! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  6. 7 FEB

    Bitcoin Crashes Below 65K Then Rebounds While BlockDAG and Solana Lead the Dip Buying Playbook

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your **Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide** for the wild week leading up to February 7, 2026. Buckle up—this market's been a rollercoaster, but we've got the deets straight from Finbold, CaptainAltcoin, Binance Square, and more. Bitcoin kicked things off with a brutal sell-off, plunging below $65,000 mid-week in one of its steepest drops ever, thanks to Fed uncertainty, a stronger US Dollar, and institutional outflows. Per Finbold and Binance Square reports, BTC shattered key supports at $73,000 and $74,000, hitting lows around $60,000 before rebounding Friday above $70,000—closing near $68,314 with a 3% pop. Polymarket odds now peg $75,000 as the top end-of-February bet at 54% probability, with $60,000 at 42%—pointing to tight consolidation amid fragile sentiment. Technicals from StoneX echo past downturns, with BTC's daily charts showing bearish MACD crosses and support eyed at $70,000-$71,000. Altcoins got hammered too. Ethereum tanked to $2,320 below its 50-day EMA, a 9-month low per Binance, while Solana tests $95 support after a 9% weekly slide—yet CaptainAltcoin highlights institutional inflows into Solana ETPs and Firedancer's mainnet stress tests aiming for 1M TPS by mid-year. XRP and Polkadot shed 14%, with TheCryptoBasic wondering if XRP's dip to $1.11 could mint more millionaires on a bounce. Capital's fleeing to stablecoins, fear index at 18. But here's the buy-the-dip playbook from CaptainAltcoin: **BlockDAG** shines at $0.00025 in its final presale round, backed by $450M raised—promising 200x to $0.05 launch with 15,000 TPS on its DAG-PoW hybrid and 3.5M X1 app users. Scoop **Solana** at $95-$103 for that recovery anchor. **Ondo Finance** ($1.15-$1.25) drops tokenized US equities on Solana soon, yield-proof against rate hikes. **Render** ($6.80-$7.50) unlocks enterprise Nvidia H200 GPUs via RNP 021 for AI dominance. Ethereum eyes $2,150 support. Elsewhere, Crypto.com's CEO shelled out $70M for AI.com per Coinfomania—eyeing AI-crypto fusion. Lowenstein Sandler notes Coinbase execs huddled with White House on Feb 2 over market structure woes. Caleb & Brown reports total crypto cap down 12% to $2.7T after Senate's bill passed. Bloomberg Crypto questions if the historic run's kaput. Traders, Binance advises zero leverage, This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  7. 3 FEB

    Bitcoin ETFs See Massive Inflows as Institutional Money Returns to Crypto Markets

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. # Digital Assets Decoded: Your Weekly Crypto Rundown Hey everyone, Crypto Willy here! What a week we've had in the crypto space, and honestly, things are looking way more interesting than they did just a few weeks ago. So let's kick things off with what's really got the institutional crowd buzzing. According to reporting from investment analysis platforms, February 2026 is shaping up to be a serious turning point for crypto. We're seeing Bitcoin ETF inflows hitting massive numbers—we're talking $648 million flowing into BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund on single days. That's the kind of money that doesn't lie, folks. Corporate treasuries are also getting in on the action, with major firms executing multi-billion dollar Bitcoin purchases and adding serious Ethereum positions to their balance sheets. Here's what's driving this comeback: the SEC finally got its act together with those new commodity ETP standards they rolled out back in September 2025. Game changer. Now we're seeing spot ETFs pop up for tokens like Solana and XRP without all the regulatory nightmares that used to bog things down. Plus, remember the GENIUS Act that passed mid-2025? That federal stablecoin framework with 100% liquid-asset reserves is transforming how corporations view digital assets—we're talking strategic integration, not just speculation anymore. Now, the on-chain data is telling us something really interesting too. Bitcoin network addresses surged by over 335,000 in a single 24-hour period, the biggest daily jump since November 2025. That's real people and institutions accumulating during the dip. The ahr999 accumulation indicator just fell below 0.45—and historically, that's a rare signal that tends to show up right at market bottoms. Bitcoin's holding around that $78,000 to $80,000 range after dropping from its October 2025 peak near $125,000, but the fact that it's outperforming gold, which tanked almost 10% in the same period, tells you something about where smart money is positioning itself. The altcoin space is definitely feeling the pressure though. According to market analysis from early February, Ethereum halved from its autumn peak around $5,000 and is currently sitting near $2,400 to $2,500. XRP got hammered too—it shot up to around $3 after that massive Ripple legal victory last summer but has since retraced to roughly $1.50. Solana, Cardano, and Dogecoin are all trading at multi-month lows, though they're holding their top-10 positions thanks to community support and utility plays. But here's the thing—there are whispers of altcoins that could bounce back strong if Bitcoin momentum continues. Privacy coins like Monero and newer projects with solid development roadmaps are starting to show some signs of life on the technical charts. The money's being selective right now, flowing toward projects with clear narratives and improving metrics rather than just chasing hype. Looking ahead, if we see some Fed dovishness after May 2026 and the regulatory clarity continues, analysts are predicting we could see $50 billion in institutional inflows flooding the space by mid-2026, potentially pushing Bitcoin back toward that $120,000 to $150,000 range within the next year or so. Thanks so much for tuning in to Digital Assets Decoded! Make sure you come back next week for more deep dives into what's moving the crypto markets. This has been a Quiet Please production—head over to Quiet Please dot AI to check out more of our content. Stay crypto curious, everyone! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  8. 31 JAN

    Bitcoin Bloodbath to 82K Triggers 2 Billion Liquidation Cascade While Solana Surges and Binance Goes All In on BTC

    Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide podcast. Hey folks, Crypto Willy here with your Digital Assets Decoded: Daily Crypto Guide for the week ending January 31, 2026. Buckle up, chain—we've had a wild ride from Bitcoin peaks to liquidation bloodbaths, but resilience is shining through. Bitcoin took a brutal 9.5% nosedive from its January 18 high of $95.6K, stabilizing around $82.7K by week's end after closing January 30 at $84.1K, per the Daily Crypto Market Brief. That triggered a massive $2 billion liquidation cascade on January 29-30, with Hyperliquid's single biggest hit at $31 million on a BTC-USD long—Glassnode pins it on long-term holder capitulation, dumping 144K BTC near the $84.6K URPD cluster. ETF flows flipped too: year-to-date $26.26 billion in, but late January saw outflows as institutions rotated out, Amberdata notes. Bright spots? JASMY surged 26.78%, MANTRA up 15.6%, ARWEAVE 16.5% amid flight-to-quality. Solana exploded with active addresses doubling to over 5 million, transactions from 52 million to 87 million, fees topping $1.1 million—network's firing on all cylinders despite the macro dip. Exchanges moved big: Binance announced January 30 it'll convert its $1 billion SAFU fund from stablecoins to Bitcoin over 30 days, committing to top it up if volatility bites, post their October outage drama. OKX delisted ULTI, GEAR, VRA, DAO, CXT, RDNT, and ELON on January 27-30 for low liquidity, echoing Binance and Coinbase purges—top-100 consolidation in full swing. Security alerts: Phemex got hacked for $69 million this month, part of $73 million in 19 incidents, down 44% from last month but still stinging, says the Daily Crypto report. Tether froze $182 million USDT on Tron early January to curb illicit flows, aligning with US crackdowns. Regulation heated up—White House crypto czar David Sacks pushed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act for Senate markup, delayed but rescheduled late January after Coinbase tweaks, per OANDA and Trakx. SEC and CFTC held a January 29 harmonization webcast on market structure. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong clapped back at a French central banker defending Bitcoin, while they launched a quantum computing risk board. Sentiment? Vitalik Buterin posted on X January 30 about Ethereum's 5-year tightening phase, withdrawing 16.4K ETH for dev infra. Watch US government shutdown fears resolved January 31 EOD—could test BTC at $80.5K if it flares. CryptoQuant flags USDT demand crashing with a 3 billion burn, but DeFi TVL holds steady at $57.3 billion on Aave v3. Thanks for tuning in, pals—catch you next week for more decoded action. This has been a Quiet Please production—for me, check out Quiet Please Dot A I. Stay stacked! Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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Digital Assets Decoded: Your Daily Crypto Guide is your go-to weekly podcast for the latest insights and updates in the world of digital assets and cryptocurrency. Join us as we explore market trends, investment strategies, and news that matter most to crypto enthusiasts and investors. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned trader, our expert discussions are designed to keep you informed and ahead in the ever-evolving crypto landscape. Tune in every week for your essential crypto guide. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

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