🚨🚨 CryptoCurated Week 48 — “GENIUS, GROK & GLOBAL GRABBAG” 🚨🚨

BTC at $118K, Solana slides, RUNE bleeds, but the rails are being replaced — with memes, markets, and a whisper of $400K LFG!! 🏁🌊🌈💥

📊 Weekly Price Check (BTC / SOL / RUNE ~8:35pm CT)

• Bitcoin (BTC): $118,257 (▼ 0.7% 7D)

• Solana (SOL): $179.59 (▼ 5.8% 7D)

• THORChain (RUNE): $1.39 (▼ 7.8% 7D)

Risk-off across alt L1s while BTC holds the line — but wait for Grok…

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🔥 Meme of the Week

Trump: “WELL I WOULD LOVE POWELL TO LOWER INTEREST RATES”
slaps back of Fed Chair like he’s a vending machine
💀 Jerome.exe has stopped responding

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📰 Global Moves, Bold Claims, Big Money

🧠 AI Predicts $400K BTC?!

• Grok AI says BTC hits $400K by Nov 2.

• “The most advanced AI in the world” dropping the boldest call in the world.

🇬🇭 Ghana greenlights crypto platforms

• Bitcoin adoption rising across Africa. Regulation races to keep up.

💼 Goldman x BNY tokenized MMFs

• $7.1 trillion money market game meets DAML smart contracts and blockchain rails.

• BlackRock & Federated Hermes now on-chain collateral ready.

• On-chain efficiency ✅ Real-time settlement ✅ Institutional-grade ✅

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⚖️ Operation Chokepoint 2.0… or 200.0?

• JPMorgan hits fintechs with new fees to access YOUR data

• Gemini says it was booted — again

• Tyler Winklevoss & Anthem both drop 🔥 on “bankster” tactics

• 💬 “Chokepoint 200.0” enters the meme lexicon

  

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🇺🇸 Red, White & BTC

• Trump Media is now #5 in corporate BTC holdings (more than Tesla 🚗)

• White House planning Strategic Bitcoin Reserve update

• Trump confirms U.S. payment system crypto upgrade starting August 1st

• Bill introduced: Fannie Mae to support BTC/crypto mortgages

• 🇺🇸 Legacy rails, meet your replacement.

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🪙 Stablecoins: Controlled or Co-opted?

• Tether freezes $1.6M in USDT at DOJ request

• Total frozen now: $2.9B

• Is this trust-building compliance — or centralization’s final form?

• Tether now collaborates with 275+ law enforcement agencies in 59 countries 🌐

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📉 MSTR: BTC Proxy or Retail Trap?

Anton Golub breaks it down:

• BTC drops 50%

• MSTR drops 75%

• Why? mNAV math. You’re not buying BTC. You’re buying $2 of leveraged exposure to $1 of BTC.

• Exit liquidity vibes 🫠

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🏡 Retail Adoption Watch

• PayPal now allows crypto payments with 100+ tokens

• Ethereum rings Nasdaq’s closing bell for its 10th birthday 🛎️🎂

Next 10 years = replace TradFi rails.

• Visual Capitalist shows 10-year stablecoin evolution (GENIUS Act now signed)

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🧠 Legacy + Lineage

• Anthem reflects on his late father, James U. Blanchard III —

early angel investor in GoldMoney, catalyst for Hayek’s prophetic crypto insights
May he rest in peace 🕊️❤️☀️

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💥 Quote of the Week

“USDT is traceable, transparent, and accountable.” – Paolo Ardoino
“MSTR is not Bitcoin.” – Anton Golub
“BTC to $400K by Nov 2.” – Grok AI 😮‍💨

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⚠️ Weekly Disclaimer

Nothing in CryptoCurated is financial advice. DYOR, DCA, or disregard — but stay spicy. 🌶️🧠💸