What do people who built the largest companies in the world read? 🌍
📖 "From Zero to One" — Peter Thiel
Elon Musk's choice 🚀
Don't compete — create what doesn't exist yet. Competition = a struggle for pennies 💸 Monopoly through a unique idea = real big business 🧠💡
📖 "The Intelligent Investor" — Benjamin Graham
Warren Buffett's choice 🐂
A book he has reread dozens of times. Written in 1949, but still relevant ⏳ All the basics about the stock market, investor mentality, and discipline 📊📈
📖 "The Innovator's Dilemma" — Clayton Christensen
Jeff Bezos's choice 📦
He required his entire Amazon team to read it. The main idea: look for niches that market leaders consider too small — and take them 🎯 That's where giants are born 🏆 #IlonMask #bezos #buffet #BinanceSquareFamily
🍏Apple is once again at the $4 trillion market capitalization mark and regaining second place among the world's most valuable companies, changing almost nothing in its strategy.
💡 While the market is in turmoil due to fears of an AI bubble, Apple is staying out of the spending race.
About $18 billion on AI compared to $115 billion at Meta, $175 billion at Google, and nearly $200 billion at Amazon. Instead of loud promises – careful decisions and cost control.
🔎 The same logic applies to products.
Instead of a "revolutionary" Siri, the company partnered with Google, which unexpectedly boosted iPhone sales. Sometimes the best strategy is to not rush while others are running.
A prediction event has appeared on Polymarket regarding a possible strike by the USA on Iran. Among the proposed dates, the highest volume of bets is placed on February 28 — about $11 million 💵
The current probability of the event is estimated by the market at 23%. For those who enjoy participating in predictions, the bet is already available on Polymarket.
🇨🇳🇺🇸 China continues to sell off US government bonds — BBG
📝 My comment: Yesterday, according to BBG, Chinese authorities recommended banks to reduce investments in American government bonds 💵📉 It seems that China is preparing for a new round of trade confrontation with the US — and possibly a tough geopolitical scenario around Taiwan 🌏⚠️ China is clearly considering the risk that its reserves may be frozen in the West ❄️🏦
Strategy: why –$6 billion — is not necessarily bad 📑💥
The Q4 report looks tough 😬: an unrealized loss of tens of billions due to the revaluation of BTC 📉, weak business profitability 🧾, pressure on stocks 📊. But if you look not at dry numbers, but at the structure, the picture becomes more complex 🧠.
Strategy is no longer just a "company with Bitcoin" 🪙, but a financial machine for carefully accumulating BTC per share ⚙️📈.
For 2025, they:
× attracted a record amount of capital 💰
× created a dollar buffer for nearly 2.5 years of payouts 🛡️
× launched STRC — a tool that allows borrowing at a high interest rate 📄 👉 without the immediate sale of Bitcoin ❌🪙
📌 The model is risky, but there is an important nuance 👇
Even if Strategy ever starts to break down 🧱, it will be a slow corporate process 🐢, and not an instant fire sale of hundreds of thousands of BTC 🚫🔥.
The company has:
× cash 💵
× timelines ⏳
× tools to stretch the pressure over time 🧩
⚙️ Everyone fears the "domino effect," but it is unlikely to happen 🧠❄️
Strategy is a source of volatility for its stocks 📉📈, but not a systemic risk for BTC 🚀.
Bitcoin has long lived wider than one public company 🌍🪙, even if it holds 700k+ BTC
According to the Mayer Multiple Z-Score multiplier, BTC is currently in the oversold zone 🧊 — at levels we have already seen at key moments in history:
🔹 Covid Crisis 2020 → followed by the explosive bull market of 2021 🚀 🔹 FTX Crash (Fall 2022) → after which the bull market of 2023–2024 came 📈
📊 The indicator itself is considered a fairly accurate tool: it shows how much the current price of BTC deviates from its long-term trend in terms of standard deviations 🧮
🇺🇸 USA — only 28%, 24th place in the world 😮 Country #1 in AI development, but far from a leader in actual usage
🇷🇺 Russia — only 8% 📉 This is lower than several African countries 🌍 And almost 2 times lower than the global average
🇰🇭 Cambodia — a record low: only 5% ❌
💡 Conclusion AI is no longer the future, but the present ⏳ And the countries that are using it en masse today will set the rules of the game tomorrow 🎯🤖 #AI #usa #china #BinanceSquareFamily
There is a version that the reason is the failure of one or several hedge funds from Hong Kong that overestimated the risk and got carried away with leverage.
📊 Key indicators
📈 Record trading volumes of IBIT (BTC ETF) — ~$10.7 billion per day 🧨 Record turnover in IBIT options (~$900 million in premiums) 📉 BTC and SOL fell synchronously (unusual for the market) 😶🌫️ Minor liquidations on cryptocurrency exchanges → source outside CeFi
🏦 What could have gone wrong
Funds with 100% capital in IBIT (margin isolation) Many of them are registered in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Used options with high gamma + leverage Financing was through JPY carry trade 💴
🥈 Trigger
Sharp drop in silver (-20%) Losses in metals + rise in funding costs Attempts to "recoup" only exacerbated the situation
💣 Finale Forced liquidation of positions in IBIT Mass sale of BTC → market dump Possible problems even for brokers
⏳ What's next The real culprit will only be seen through 13F reports Disclosure — in about ~45 days Rumors will likely surface sooner 🕵️♂️
Donald Trump announced agreements with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 🤝
🔑 Key points: 🛢️⬇️ reduction of Russian oil purchases 🇺🇸⬆️ increase in energy imports from the USA (and possibly Venezuela 🇻🇪) 📉 decrease in trade tariffs between countries
🇺🇸➡️🇮🇳 The USA will reduce the mutual tariff from 25% to 18%, 🇮🇳➡️🇺🇸 and India promised to move towards zero tariffs for American goods 🧾
💰 India also announced plans to increase purchases from the USA by more than $500 billion ⚡ energy 💻 technology 🌾 agriculture 🏗️ and other sectors
📌 What does this mean?
🌍 This is an attempt to redistribute global energy flows 🎯 and increase pressure on Russia through its key buyers
In a month and a half, the CME exchange 📊 raised margin requirements for silver four times — a total increase of almost 80% ⚠️ Traders had to constantly add money 💸 to maintain their positions.
At some point, most were unable to do this ❌ — mass liquidations 🔥 began, which dragged the market down ⬇️
Similar crashes with the same mechanics have occurred in 1980 and 2011 🕰️
🔎 But beyond the mechanics, geopolitics has entered the game:
🇨🇳 China currently controls 60–70% of the world's silver processing and as of January 1, 2026 🗓️ recognized it as a strategic resource 🛡️
🇺🇸 And for the US, it is important that metals remain cheap and controlled because dollars can be printed at any moment 🖨️💵 but precious metals cannot ❗🪙
📌 The conclusion is simple:
📉 Short-term — the market fell due to mechanics and leverage
For the first time in 3 years, Bitcoin is breaking the key swing low 🧱⬇️ and thus for the first time in this entire period, it is breaking the globally ascending structure 🔨📊
❗️It's not about local noise 🌊 ❗️and not about another pullback 🔄
This is precisely the break of that very structure, which has lasted for years ⏳🧠
🎮 How Roblox is shaping a whole generation 👧🧒 85 million children log into Roblox every day.
In 2024, they spent 73.5 billion hours ⏳ Now it is the most popular game among children under 13 🔥
⚙️ How are brands taking advantage of this?
👟 Nike built an entire virtual world in Roblox — Nikeland 🌍 Children run in branded sneakers, 🕹 complete quests, 🏆 compete with friends.
This is not a 5-second banner 📢 This is hours of engaged contact with the brand ⏱💥
🏬 The same is being done by dozens of other companies. They create virtual stores where children 👕 try on clothes for avatars ➡️ and then ask their parents to buy the real ones.
📦 Moreover, Roblox has already launched the sale of physical goods right inside the game 🛒
📍 Advertising that children choose themselves
📊 78% of players say they have a positive attitude towards brands in Roblox 😊 While a child plays — they absorb that 👟 Nike is cool 💎 Gucci is status 🌯 Chipotle is delicious
🧠 Generation Alpha will grow up with these brands in their minds. And that's why companies are investing so actively in this direction 💰🚀
In January, venture funds invested $1.4 billion in crypto projects 💰
Important: the money is not going into memes 🚫🐶, but into infrastructure 🏗 — DeFi ⚙️ — AI + crypto 🤖 — on-chain finance 🔗 — services for institutional investors 🏦
And this looks particularly contrasting against the background of the fact that in just 24 hours the market experienced about $2.5 billion in liquidations 🔥📉
📌 How to read this?
This is not a signal that the market is about to reverse ⏳ But the current conditions and prices have become noticeably more interesting for large capital 👀💼
It is precisely in such moments that it starts to act more actively 🧠 When everyone thinks that the cycle is ending and it's time to wind down ❄️ smart players are already preparing for the next one 🚀
The President of the United States nominated Kevin Warsh to be the new head of the Federal Reserve 🏦
⚙️ Why is this important? The head of the Federal Reserve determines the key rate 📉 It affects loans 💳, mortgages 🏠, and investments 💼 worldwide 🌍
📍 Who is Warsh? 🔹 Former banker at Morgan Stanley 🔹 At 35 years old — the youngest member of the Federal Reserve in history ⏱️ 🔹 In 2017 he was already a finalist for this position, but Trump chose Powell 😤 About which he later regretted more than once
🔴 The main intrigue Trump wants a sharp rate cut — down to 1% 🚀 But Warsh has been a "hawk" 🦅 throughout his career and opposed loose monetary policy
🤔 However, in the past year he has sharply changed his rhetoric and started supporting cuts
🥇 Tether has become the largest private holder of gold
Tether has accumulated about 140 tons of gold — approximately $23 billion at current prices 💰 The company buys 1–2 tons per week, and over the past year acquired 70+ tons — more than most central banks 🌍
❗ The exception is Poland with its 102 tons 🇵🇱
🏦 Important point: The gold is physical, stored in Switzerland 🇨🇭 — in a former nuclear bunker ☢️ with multi-layered protection 🔒
In terms of reserves, Tether is effectively becoming a "private gold central bank" 🏛️
🔍 What does this mean? • Tether is actively diversifying risks, moving beyond the dollar 💵➡️🥇 • XAUT is becoming a digital access point to real physical gold 📲 • Tether is no longer behaving like a startup 🚀, but as a financial institution of national scale
🇺🇸 Trump has not yet reached Tether and does not interfere with the process 😌