Strategy’s founder dropped another breadcrumb on Sunday, posting an image of the company’s purchase tracker and offering only a knowing nod with the words “₿igger Orange.”

Silver is flashing rare historical extremes that have preceded major turning points, with long-term valuation metrics and equity comparisons suggesting the metal could be nearing a decisive phase that reshapes its price trajectory into 2026.

Bitcoin hovered between $94,869 and $95,115 per coin at 9 a.m. EST on Jan. 18, 2026, while derivatives traders remained anything but idle. Futures and options markets show crowded positioning, heavy open interest, and a growing fixation on a narrow band of price levels just below $100,000.

With bitcoin priced at $95,101 on Sunday, its market cap holding strong at $1.89 trillion, and a 24-hour trading volume humming at $19.02 billion, traders are watching a tight intraday range between $94,869 and $95,543 like hawks. The mood? Restless. The charts are calling out indecision with the subtlety of a marching band.

Bitcoin Nears $100K, Ordinals Boom, RLUSD at LMAX, Institutional Crypto Shift, and more in this Week in Review.

Anchorage Digital is reportedly raising $200 million–$400 million as it explores a possible initial public offering next year.

Seasoned trader J. Michael Oliver, the father of a proprietary technical analysis method called momentum structural analysis (MSA), predicts that both gold and silver will continue to break records, reaching at least $8,500 and $300 per ounce, respectively.

Steak ‘n Shake adds $10,000,000 in BTC to its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve while reporting higher same‑store sales.

President Donald Trump said the United States had subsidized Denmark and other EU countries for years without receiving any remuneration. He stressed that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland had jeopardized hemispheric security by sending troops to the island and that the U.S. might impose import tariffs until Greenland’s acquisition.

The surge in privacy coins in late 2025, which continued in 2026 with Monero hitting new highs, is seen as signalling renewed investor demand for on-chain anonymity. Analysts and industry leaders argue that privacy is evolving from untraceable transfers to selective disclosure and becoming core infrastructure for Web3.

A pro-America digital bank is racing toward Nasdaq with an ambitious plan to fuse traditional banking and crypto, promising faster blockchain access, new lending options, and a stablecoin-powered payments future through a high-profile SPAC merger.

XRP’s long-term investment case gains fresh momentum as Ripple and UC Berkeley advance institutional-grade development on the XRP Ledger, moving real-world use cases from academic research toward live deployment and expanding enterprise adoption signals.

Silver markets face a potential shock as Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki predicts a rapid surge toward $107, arguing that tightening physical supply and industrial demand leave prices dangerously misaligned.

Sustained bitcoin ETF buying could quietly drain available supply before triggering an explosive price surge, mirroring gold’s delayed rally after years of institutional accumulation reshaped market dynamics.

Platinum’s tightening supply and resilient demand are amplifying long-term market volatility, reinforcing structural deficits that continue to pressure prices and drive growing risk-management activity.