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#ThailandSupremeCourtRulesBitcoinIsProperty

🇹🇭 Thailand's Supreme Court: Bitcoin Is Property

⚖️ Full-bench ruling, Judgment No. 4929/2569
📅 Case: a Sept 2022 Koh Samui robbery where a victim was forced to transfer 2.480801 BTC
💵 About $50K then, roughly $200K at today's ~$80.6K BTC
🚫 Defense said Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, so it can't be robbed "property"
📊 Court disagreed: it has market value, can be owned and turned into cash
🔒 10-year sentence upheld, plus an order to return the BTC or pay its baht value
⚠️ Still not legal tender in Thailand

What it means for crypto: lower courts now follow this precedent, giving holders clearer protection against theft and extortion. A legal win, not a price catalyst.

Should more countries spell out that crypto is property? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #Thailand #Bitcoin #ThailandSupremeCourtRulesBitcoinIsProperty

#FOMCWatch

🇺🇸 Fed Decision Hours Away: Hold Priced, Dissents in Focus

📅 The decision lands today at 2 PM ET (18:00 UTC), with Chair Warsh's press conference at 2:30
📊 CME FedWatch prices about a 90% chance rates stay at 3.75-4.00%, and 10% for a hike
🗳️ In a Reuters poll, 94 of 100 economists expect a hold, and all 100 expect a December hike
⚠️ Rabobank expects Hammack, Kashkari and Logan to dissent for a hike again, as in July
📈 September CPI ran hot at 3.7% a year, while payrolls added only 29K jobs
🔍 Warsh is expected to avoid explicit forward guidance

What it means for crypto: a hold is mostly priced in, so dissents and the December tone matter more. Hawkish signals could weigh on risk assets, softer ones could ease pressure. Bitcoin is near $80.7K.

How many dissents do you expect tonight? 👇

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#CryptoNews #Fed #FOMC #FOMCWatch

#$10.9BBitcoinOptionsExpireFriday

📊 $10.9B in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday

📅 Deribit's monthly expiry settles Fri, Oct 30 at 08:00 UTC (2:00 PM Dhaka)
🔢 About 136,000 BTC of contracts, roughly 35% of all BTC options open interest on Deribit
⚖️ Put/call ratio about 0.53, so calls outnumber puts nearly 2 to 1
🎯 Biggest strike: $95,000 calls (~20,000 BTC), then $100K and $90K
📉 Max pain sits near $78,000, but payouts are almost flat from $75K to $81K
💠 ETH options worth about $0.77B expire too
⚠️ It lands right after today's Fed decision and Thursday's PCE inflation data

What it means for Bitcoin: big expiries can add choppiness as hedges roll off, but max pain is an open-interest calculation, not a price target. Macro news this week may matter more.

Do you watch options expiry, or ignore it? 👇

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#DatavaultAICantWithdrawBitcoinFromBiconomy

⚠️ Datavault AI Can't Get Its Bitcoin Off Biconomy

📅 Sep 2025: Scilex paid for a $150M Datavault share deal in BTC
🔁 1,309.04 BTC was credited to Datavault's Biconomy account off-chain, so no coins moved on the Bitcoin blockchain
💵 Datavault sold 491.431 BTC back to Scilex for about $40.5M
⏳ It asked to withdraw in June 2026 and still couldn't as of its Oct 26 SEC filing
📉 Four quarters of results will be restated; total assets fall by $92.2M at end-2025 and $49.0M at June 30
📉 DVLT closed at $0.067 on Tuesday, down 49.55%

What it means for crypto: an exchange balance is a claim on the exchange, not coins you control. As more companies hold BTC on their balance sheets, expect auditors and investors to ask harder questions about custody and proof of withdrawal.

Should treasury companies be required to show on-chain proof of their BTC? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #BitcoinTreasury #Custody #DatavaultAICantWithdrawBitcoinFromBiconomy

#KOSPISurges6.63%BackAbove6000

🇰🇷 KOSPI Rips 6.63% and Reclaims 6,000

📊 Close Oct 28: 6,012.44, up 374.10 points
📈 Biggest daily % gain since July 31, first close above 6,000 in 10 sessions
💾 Chips led: SK hynix +10.89%, Samsung Electronics +9.01%
🌍 Foreigners bought 822.8B won, institutions 960.7B won; retail sold 1.8T won
⚠️ Buy-side sidecar triggered for a second straight day
📅 Drivers: SK hynix Q3 beat plus 60T won returns, and Anthropic's IPO push easing AI-spend worries

What it means for crypto: Korea is one of crypto's biggest retail markets, and a risk-on Seoul tape usually helps sentiment. BTC is near $81.5K, up about 2% in 24h. But the Fed decision lands tonight, and analysts say this rally still needs earnings and foreign flows to hold.

Does a hot KOSPI pull Korean money into crypto or away from it? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #KOSPI #Korea #KOSPISurges6.63%BackAbove6000

#BitcoinSurpasses$81K

📈 Bitcoin Back Above $81K Hours Before the Fed

BTC is trading near $81,500, up about 2.3% in 24h on Binance.

📊 24h range: $79,506 to $81,823
📉 Just one day ago it slipped below $80K again
🌏 Risk mood improved: Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed higher, and South Korea's KOSPI jumped 6.63% back above 6,000
🛢️ Oil pulled back from above $100, easing some inflation worry
🔄 About 14,942 BTC left exchanges, per crypto.news, a sign of lower sell pressure
📅 The Fed's rate decision lands today, Oct 28 at 2 PM ET

⚠️ $82K is the level traders are watching. It has capped the bounce so far.

What it means for Bitcoin: the rebound is real but fragile. A steady hold and calm guidance could support a push higher, while a hawkish surprise could send BTC back to test $80K.

Breakout or another rejection at $82K? 👇

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#MoodysAssignsRLUSDA2LongTermDepositRating

🏦 Moody's Gives Ripple's RLUSD an A2 Rating

📊 A2 long-term deposit rating: upper-medium grade, low credit risk
✅ P-1 short-term: Moody's highest short-term rating
🔗 Covers native RLUSD on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum
💵 Reserves: mostly cash and short-term US Treasuries, held mainly at BNY, with a 103% coverage target
⏱️ Eligible institutions can redeem at par within two business days
⚠️ The catch: holders have no direct claim on reserves, so an issuer bankruptcy could delay redemptions

What it means for crypto: a rating from a major agency gives bank and corporate treasury teams a familiar yardstick for stablecoins. It is a credit opinion, not a guarantee of the peg.

Would a Moody's rating change which stablecoin you hold? 👇

$XRP $ETH
#CryptoNews #Stablecoins #RLUSD #MoodysAssignsRLUSDA2LongTermDepositRating

#EarningsSeason

📉 Robinhood's Crypto Revenue Fell 55% in Q3

Robinhood reported Q3 results on Oct 27, and crypto was the weak spot.

📊 Total revenue hit a record $1.42B, up 12% from a year ago
📉 Crypto revenue dropped to $120M from about $267M, now only 8.4% of sales (21% a year ago)
🔍 Crypto volume fell 38% to $50B: $21B in the app, $29B on Bitstamp
📈 Event contracts made $173M (up over 6x) and options $399M (up 31%)
⚠️ Net income fell 14% to $476M; shares slid about 5% after hours

What it means for crypto: retail traders are cooling on coins and moving to options and prediction markets. Crypto still beat the $114M estimate, so this looks like a slowdown, not an exit.

Are retail traders coming back to crypto in Q4? 👇

$BTC $ETH
#CryptoNews #Robinhood #HOOD

#HKPlacesTokenizedFundSecondaryTradingUnderETFLikeFramework

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Opens 24/7 Trading of Tokenized Public Funds

📅 Oct 26: the SFC approved the world's first secondary trading of tokenized public funds on a licensed crypto exchange
🏦 First products: ChinaAMC's HKD and USD Digital Money Market Funds
⏰ Trading runs 24/7, not just weekdays at NAV
📊 ETF-style rules: at least one market maker, pre-funded orders, and an indicative NAV updated about every 15 seconds
⚠️ Platforms must warn buyers when price strays far from NAV
🔗 Next step: pairing with tokenized bank deposits under the HKMA's Project Ensemble

What it means for crypto: regulated yield tokens are moving onto exchange rails. The SFC may widen the product range later, which could pull more traditional money onchain.

Would you trade a tokenized money market fund at 3 AM? 👇

#CryptoNews #Tokenization #RWA #HKPlacesTokenizedFundSecondaryTradingUnderETFLikeFramework

#USGovSellsFTXLinkedAnthropicSharesFor$627M

💸 The US Sold FTX's Anthropic Stake for $627M. It Could Be Worth ~$3.9B Now

📄 Anthropic's Oct 26 IPO filing shows it bought 4,453,900 forfeited shares from the US government in Oct 2025
💵 Price: $140.97 per share, about $627M in total
🧾 The stake traces to Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh's $50M bet in 2022
🏦 The cash went to the FTX bankruptcy estate; court filings show the Justice Department sent it $638M in late 2025
👥 Anthropic resold the shares at cost to nine unnamed investors
📈 At a reported $1.5T valuation, that block would be worth about $3.94B

What it means for crypto: FTX creditors got real cash, but the upside went to private buyers. Seized assets are often sold long before their peak.

Should governments hold seized assets longer for victims? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #FTX #Anthropic #USGovSellsFTXLinkedAnthropicSharesFor$627M

#StrategySkipsBitcoinPurchasesSpends$205MOnSTRCBuybacks

🗳️ Strategy Holders Vote Today on Daily Dividends

📅 MSTR shareholders meet Oct 28 at 10:00 AM ET to vote on daily dividends for STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD
💵 If approved, STRC's first daily record date is Nov 1, paid Nov 2; the other three start in January
⏸️ Context: Strategy bought zero BTC from Oct 19-25 and spent $204.9M buying back STRC
🟠 Holdings stay at 848,517 BTC, average cost about $75,446
🏦 USD assets total about $5.1B: a $4.83B reserve for dividends and interest plus $242.4M cash
📈 BTC trades near $81K, about 7% above Strategy's cost

What it means for Bitcoin: Strategy is pushing to make its preferred stock more attractive, since that's a key way it raises money for BTC. A yes vote doesn't buy coins by itself, but stronger preferred demand could help restart purchases.

Would daily dividends make you trust Strategy's model more? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #Bitcoin #MSTR #StrategySkipsBitcoinPurchasesSpends$205MOnSTRCBuybacks

#OSMOPlansToBurn100MTokensFromCommunityPool

🔥 Osmosis Moves to Make Its "Soft Burn" Permanent

📅 Proposal posted Oct 27 on the Osmosis forum, target onchain date Oct 30
🔥 Plan: send 55.5M OSMO from the community pool to the null address
📊 About 44.4M OSMO is already burned, so total burned would pass 100M
📉 Supply would fall about 7%, from roughly 794M OSMO
🏦 The pool holds about 119.3M OSMO and would keep about 63.8M
⚠️ OSMO inflation is now zero, so the pool no longer gets new tokens
📈 OSMO trades near $0.056 on Binance, up about 8% in 24h after touching $0.067

What it means for crypto: this is a supply cleanup, not new demand. Those tokens were already out of circulation, but a future vote could have released them. Burning them removes that risk. Staking rewards now lean on trading revenue, so volume matters more than ever.

Do treasury burns change how you value a token? 👇

$OSMO $ATOM
#CryptoNews #Osmosis #Cosmos #OSMOPlansToBurn100MTokensFromCommunityPool

#SKHynixUnveils$45BShareholderReturns

🇰🇷 SK Hynix Turns AI Memory Profits Into a $45B Payout

📊 Q3 2026: revenue 104.6T won, operating profit 83.3T won, an 80% margin
📈 Bloomberg: profit up about seven-fold, beating estimates by more than 7%
💰 New plan: 60T won (~$45B) in extra shareholder returns
💵 Q3 dividend: 20,000 won per share, half of it a special payout from the Kioxia stake gain
🔁 New 20T won buyback, with 10T won to be cancelled
📅 Full-year 2026 returns: about 100T won, including the 40T won buyback finished Oct 21
⚠️ SK hynix expects memory shortages to last through 2030

What it means for crypto: the AI trade is still printing cash, which supports risk appetite in Korea, one of crypto's biggest retail markets. It can also pull money toward chip stocks instead of coins. BTC is near $81K, up about 1.3% in 24h, ahead of tonight's Fed decision.

Is AI money helping crypto or competing with it? 👇

$BTC
#CryptoNews #SKHynix #Korea #SKHynixUnveils$45BShareholderReturns

#CanGoogleDefindItsCore

🔍 Google's Real Test: Can Search Still Grow?

📅 Alphabet reports Q3 on Wed Oct 28 after the US close
📊 Search & other estimate: about $65.0B, up roughly 15% year over year (Zacks)
📉 Growth already slowed from 19% in Q1 to 17% in Q2 ($63.3B)
⚠️ Tougher comparison: search sped up to 15% growth in Q3 last year
💡 Deutsche Bank's checks point to higher ad pricing and AI Overview ads keeping search healthy
📺 YouTube ads estimate: about $11.34B, up ~10.6%
🎯 EPS consensus $3.02 vs $3.10 a year ago, after narrow misses in Q1 and Q2 (LSEG via IG)

What it means for crypto: $BTC near $80.5K has traded with tech risk appetite. A steady search print could calm AI-disruption fears, while a sharp slowdown could add pressure the same night as the Fed.

Will AI chatbots dent Google Search, or is the moat holding? 👇

$BTC $ETH
#CanGoogleDefindItsCore #CryptoNews #Alphabet #EarningsSeason

Just closed my TAGUSDT perpetual position with a +109.31% gain! 🚀 Realized a profit of +36.37 USDT. Not a bad way to close out the day! #Crypto #Trading #Binance #TAGUSDT

#CanMicrosoftDeliverOnAI

☁️ Microsoft Earnings: Can Azure Pay for the AI Build-Out?

📅 Microsoft reports fiscal Q1 on Wed Oct 28 after the close, call at 5:30 PM ET, hours after the Fed decision
📊 Consensus: revenue about $90.6B and EPS $4.71, near the top of Microsoft's own $89.85B-$90.95B guide
🎯 Azure guide is about 45% growth in constant currency, after 43% last quarter
📈 Azure passed $100B in revenue for fiscal 2026, and Microsoft says demand still exceeds supply
⚠️ Capex is expected to top $50B this quarter, up from $41B including leases last quarter

What it means for crypto: $BTC near $80.7K has tracked tech risk appetite. An Azure beat that justifies the spending could lift sentiment, while a capex scare could weigh on both.

Azure growth or capex: which number matters more to you? 👇

$BTC $ETH
#CryptoNews #Microsoft #AI #CanMicrosoftDeliverOnAI

#谷歌财报能否守住基本盘

🔍 Google Earnings: Can Alphabet Hold Its Base?

📅 Alphabet reports Q3 on Wed Oct 28 after the close, hours after the Fed decision
📊 Consensus revenue about $128.2B, up roughly 25% from $102.35B a year ago (LSEG via IG)
☁️ Last quarter Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8B with a 35.6% margin
🎯 This quarter's Cloud estimate is about $29.6B, with a wide $25.0B-$36.7B range
📈 Cloud backlog reached $514B
⚠️ Q2 capex of $44.9B topped operating cash flow, leaving free cash flow at -$5.9B, the first negative quarter since the 2004 IPO
💸 2026 capex guidance: $195B-$205B

What it means for crypto: $BTC near $80.2K has moved with tech risk appetite. Cloud growth that pays for the spending could help sentiment, while a margin or capex scare could weigh on both.

Search and ads, Cloud, or capex: what decides it for you? 👇

$BTC $ETH
#CryptoNews #Alphabet #AI

#FOMCWatch

🇺🇸 Fed Day Is Here: Hold Expected, December Is the Real Fight

📅 The FOMC meets Oct 27-28. The decision lands Wednesday at 2 PM ET, with Chair Warsh speaking at 2:30
🏦 Rates sit at 3.75-4.00% after September's hike, the first since 2023
📊 CME FedWatch prices about an 88-90% chance of no change this week
📈 For December, futures put the odds of at least one more hike above 80%
📅 Core PCE inflation follows on Thursday, and about $11B in BTC options expire on Deribit Friday

What it means for crypto: a hold is mostly priced in, so the tone on December matters more than the decision. A hawkish signal could keep pressure on risk assets, while a softer one could ease it. Bitcoin is near $80.4K, flat on the day.

Will Warsh keep the December hike on the table? 👇

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#CryptoNews #Fed #FOMC #FOMCWatch

#ThailandLaunchesWORPTStablecoinToQRPaymentApp

🇹🇭 Thailand Lets Tourists Spend USDT and USDC via QR

📅 Oct 26: WORPT went live under the Thai SEC's Tourist DigiPay sandbox
🔄 Tourists deposit USDT or USDC, convert to baht, then pay with Thai QR PromptPay
🏪 Merchants get baht through the normal system, never crypto
🏦 Built by Waan Exchange (SEC-licensed) and Wipay (Bank of Thailand e-money)
🤝 Partners named: Tether, The Mall Group and Visa
💳 Visa prepaid cards are planned, with the official launch event in November
⚠️ It's a sandbox: ID checks, AML monitoring, and tests can run up to 18 months

What it means for crypto: stablecoins get a real-world spending route in a top tourist market, but it's a regulated test, not open crypto payments.

Would you pay for a holiday with stablecoins? 👇

$USDC
#CryptoNews #Stablecoins #Thailand #ThailandLaunchesWORPTStablecoinToQRPaymentApp

#EthereumDropsBelow$2300

📉 Ether Dips Under $2,300 as ETF Selling Drags On

📊 ETH ~$2,310 after a 24h low near $2,296 (Binance)
📉 Down about 13.6% in October, below its 20-day average
🏦 US spot ETH ETFs: -$88.6M on Oct 26, -$110.5M on Oct 22 (SoSoValue)
💼 Cumulative net inflows now $12.63B
🔍 NUPL near 0.007: holders as a group are almost at breakeven (CryptoQuant)
🐋 Exchange withdrawals hit ~169.8K ETH on Oct 22, the most in 4+ months (Santiment)
📅 FOMC decision Oct 28

What it means: funds are selling while some holders pull coins off exchanges. The Fed's tone this week may decide whether $2,300 holds as support. No one knows yet.

Is this capitulation or just a pause? 👇

$ETH $BTC
#CryptoNews #Ethereum #FOMC