🍩 DONUT HOLES

• 📺[WATCH] SEC’s Gensler getting grilled with “Is Ether a security” question during the SEC Oversight Hearing

• Check out this awesome crypto tax app comparison

• BAYC’s floor price hits a five-month low—a one user sold $2.8M worth of BAYC in 12 hours

• Nike’s .SWOOSH shows off its first-ever virtual collection 👟

• SpaceX’s Starship went up in flames after just 4 minutes of launching, but Elon Musk and the team were still popping champagne 🚀

MEME COIN

The most memeable memecoin is here

We go $250 to a millie, real quick

Get this: one lucky investor dropped a mere 0.125 ETH ($250) on a brand-new meme coin a few days ago, and now – brace yourselves – their investment is worth a jaw-dropping MILLION bucks, 4500x the initial investment! 🤯 

You must be wondering which coin pulled off this magic trick. Meet $PEPE, the meme coin inspired by our beloved green meme-machine, Pepe the Frog! 🐸

Meme coins that came before…

Now, meme coins like $PEPE, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu Coin, and Dogelon Mars are usually just for fun, not meant to hold real value. But sometimes, with some internet hype and tweets from Elon Musk, they can explode in popularity and bring crazy, unexpected gains.

Where is PEPE headed?

Launched just last Sunday, $PEPE is already making waves in the crypto ocean. So far, it's attracted 33,000 token holders and has a market cap of $100 million. Sure, it's not quite at Dogecoin's $12 billion level, but this frog's got some serious hops! 🚀

As $PEPE keeps climbing, the question on everyone's lips is: can it dethrone Dogecoin and rule the meme coin kingdom? The future's uncertain, but one thing's for sure: the crypto world never ceases to amaze, and we're living for the excitement. 🎉

BITCOIN

How to buy Bitcoin without buying Bitcoin

Last week, we chatted about MicroStrategy and its CEO, Michael Saylor. With a whopping 140,000 Bitcoins, they're the top dog in the Bitcoin-holding biz, and they only started buying in 2020 🤯.

Saylor says buying Bitcoin now is like scoring shares in Apple, Facebook, or Amazon a decade ago.

MicroStrategy stock = BTC

Even though MicroStrategy is technically an "enterprise analytics platform," they're so loaded with Bitcoin that their stock practically follows the price of BTC. Just look at the graph above!

In fact, MSTR's market cap is $3.81 billion, while its Bitcoin reserves sit at $3.92 billion. So yeah, it's safe to say their other operations barely make a dent in the company's valuation.

Any alternatives?

If you want other options, MSTR isn’t the only stock that follows Bitcoin. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) is a Bitcoin mining company, so its stock follows Bitcoin's moves too.

If you're itching to invest in BTC but don't want to dive into the blockchain/Web3 rabbit hole, MSTR or MARA might just be your ticket to ride! 💸

🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK

Trump was clearly lovin' the whole NFT scene back in December when he raked in a cool ~$1M from his first project. So, like any savvy entrepreneur, he thought, "Why not do it again?" 💁‍♂️ And that's what he did – he dropped a second series on Tuesday.

Sure, the floor price didn't skyrocket like it did for his first series (the one that 2x’ed right after the sale). But hey, our former prez still managed to pocket another milly, just like that. 😎