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ROLLUP: Bull Market Over? | Operation Choke Point 2.0 Emails | Meta Free Speech | $6.5B Silk Road BTC Sale
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Ryan and David return for another Weekly Rollup, tackling the question everyone’s asking in 2025: is the crypto bull market already over, or do we still have more to go? Fresh FDIC emails prove Choke Point 2.0 was no conspiracy, with yet another key antagonist stepping down. Meanwhile, AI agents dominate headlines and reimagine DeFi UX, and Meta’s abrupt pivot to free speech has everyone buzzing. Finally, the U.S. greenlights a $6.5B Silk Road Bitcoin sale—can Trump step in to save America’s strategic BTC stash? Buckle up; 2025 isn’t slowing down. You ready anon?
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0:00 California Wildfires https://x.com/white_lenka/status/1876973806817775719 https://x.com/babybeginner/status/1876872061265523155/video/1 https://x.com/ashkan/status/1876970164807164042/photo/1https://x.com mamboitaliano__/status/1876923670540501349/video/1 https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1877229902065283198
6:10 MARKETS https://x.com/saylor/status/1876253178100117907
7:13 Meanwhile, US court greenlighted sale of $6.5B of Silk Road Bitcoin https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.368440/gov.uscourts.cand.368440.17 https://decrypt.co/300133/us-court-greenlights-sale-of-6-5b-in-seized-silk-road-bitcoin
10:57 Markets Cont. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/AMEX-SPY/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/
15:15 Movers of the Week https://www.bankless.com/read/the-top-ai-agent-tokens-were-watching
18:21 Arbitrum is close to gain another green L2BEAT pie slice https://x.com/sgoldfed/status/1876417832948523464 https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/arbitrum
21:01 Succinct - zkEVMs on Superchain! First one! https://x.com/pumatheuma/status/1877070524783931515
25:05 Is the bull market over - how long will continue? https://mirror.xyz/kain.eth/Pa7XlhwUD-p https://x.com/cburniske/status/1877043358956134826
35:39 Are AI A