Florian (noob arc)

GM GM, Happy Mutant Monday. The suit stays yellow. The visor stays cracked. The laser eyes stay locked. This isn’t containment. This is adaptation. When the air turns toxic, the @TheSuitedApes don’t evacuate, they advance. Stay Blessed. #SUITUP

Early bull markets are tricky. Sentiment makes a new low every time $BTC drops 3-5%, and yet the market is still holding at $80k, refusing to push lower. Meanwhile, the big boys are buying like never before. With great opportunity comes great opportunity to fuck it up - which is why I try to make as few moves as possible. Expecting coins to be much more expensive in a year or two. That's when I'll think about selling again.

Big news as Aviva Investors announces the launch of a tokenized share class of the Aviva Investors Sterling (GBP) Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger. The Sterling (GBP) Liquidity Fund is Aviva Investors’ largest fund at around £22 billion in assets under management, and this move marks an expansion of Aviva Investors’ tokenised fund offering, following the launch of its tokenized USD Liquidity Fund in July. Investors receive the same protections as those in the conventional fund, which was initially launched in 2002. Markets are moving to 24/7 access and real-time settlement. This is what that looks like in practice. For professional investors only. Capital at risk. ripple.com/ripple-press/aviv…

Bitcoin ETFs bought $442M last week. Not enough to reverse October outflows. Month-to-date: $175M net sell.

Quite the consistent pattern on $BTC around FOMC. Across the last eight meetings shown here, the direction of the week leading into the announcement has been opposite to the direction of the week that followed. Rallies into the meeting were followed by declines. Negative weeks going in were followed by positive weeks coming out. Understand that a lot of the positioning is happening before the announcement. In other words, “priced in.” We’ve consistently seen these changes in direction around cuts, holds and a hike. So far, BTC has already corrected 7% heading into the meeting. Yet the further it falls, the more people expect that same direction to continue. If history repeats, we continue to see blood this week, followed by green next week.

UPDATE: I can confirm that the Ledger supply chain is compromised in Europe as well. @Ledger should initiate an immediate product recall to protect users. I just purchased a second device from a different Mediamarkt location today, recorded the unboxing process, and discovered spyware once again (video linked in the second tweet). The device was compromised in the exact same manner, featuring identical modifications (such as additional cables and an LTE module). This indicates its a widespread issue rather than an isolated incident, potentially affecting Ledger inventory across MediaMarkt and Saturn stores throughout Europe (comprising over 1,000 stores across 11 countries). My initial hypothesis was that these devices were returns that looked unopened to the employees and were just sold again as new however, a MediaMarkt employee confirmed that the device I purchased was not a return, and that returned Ledgers are sent directly back to the manufacturer rather than resold. Store records show the inventory originated from Aqipa GmbH. While Ledger's CTO was unsure if Aqipa serves as the direct distributor between Ledger and MediaMarkt, it appears to be the case. Given that Aqipa distributes across Europe, any physical retail store receiving stock through them may be at risk. I sent the first ledger to mark and the second one is going to ledger now, so that they can analyse it. If you purchased a ledger from anyone other than the official ledger store, make sure to check your device!!