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📌 MAROKO133 Update crypto: Highest-IQ Crypto Figure Drops New 48-Hour Bitcoin Pred

Bitcoin’s rebound above $94,000 on January 5 reignited bold price predictions across Crypto Twitter, including a fresh call from YoungHoon Kim, who claimed Bitcoin would hit $100,000 within 48 hours.

The comment quickly gained traction, partly due to timing and partly because of Kim’s controversial reputation for extreme Bitcoin forecasts.

Self-Proclaimed Smartest Man Alive Keeps Getting Bitcoin Prediction Wrong?

Kim, a South Korean online personality, rose to popularity in late 2025 after repeatedly describing himself as having an IQ of 276 and positioning his market views as superior to traditional analysis. 

His Bitcoin predictions often go viral, even as many traders view them with skepticism.

In November, Kim predicted Bitcoin would surge to $220,000 within 45 days, a forecast that failed to materialize. 

In December, he also claimed Bitcoin would break $100,000 within a week. 

Instead, Bitcoin spent most of December trading below $90,000, weighed down by macro uncertainty, year-end positioning, and fading momentum.

That context matters. Kim’s earlier calls came during periods when Bitcoin lacked clear catalysts and broader risk sentiment remained fragile. The market simply did not support the kind of parabolic move his timelines required.

This week’s setup looks different, but not dramatically so.

Are Bitcoin Charts Turning Bullish Again?

Bitcoin’s move back to $94,000 followed a risk-on open in US stock markets. Wall Street investors interpreted the weekend’s Venezuela escalation as contained and unlikely to disrupt global markets. 

Stocks moved higher, energy names outperformed, and crypto followed equities rather than acting as a safe haven.

Still, the jump does not automatically justify a $100,000 breakout within 48 hours. Bitcoin remains sensitive to equity sentiment. 

While momentum has improved, there is no clear sign of panic buying, supply shock, or structural catalyst that typically drives rapid six-figure moves.

Also, on-chain data weakens the case for an imminent vertical breakout. 

While long-term holder (LTH) spending spiked in late November, a large share of that activity came from exchange internal transfers—particularly Coinbase. They were not a genuine distribution into the market. 

While long-term holders moved a large amount of Bitcoin in late November, much of that activity came from internal exchange transfers, especially from Coinbase, rather than real selling into the market. 

Once those internal movements are excluded, long-term holder behavior looks active but not extreme. This suggests repositioning rather than the kind of demand surge needed for a sharp breakout.

Derivatives funding remains stable. Exchange inflows are muted. Volatility has risen, but not explosively. In other words, the rally looks controlled rather than euphoric.

Kim’s latest prediction aligns with market optimism—but his timeline remains aggressive. Bitcoin could test psychological resistance near $100,000 in the coming weeks if risk appetite holds. 

A near-term breakout, however, would likely require a stronger catalyst than improved sentiment alone.

For now, the call sits somewhere between confidence and wishful thinking. Bitcoin is moving again, but the market is still trading structure, not slogans.

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📌 MAROKO133 Update crypto: The ‘Singapore Collapse’ Went Viral: Here’s What’s Actu

Chinese-language social media has been buzzing with predictions of Singapore’s decline. Posts claim that luxury brands are fleeing Marina Bay Sands, and that Orchard Road’s Christmas decorations looked sparse this holiday season. Some mockingly call Singapore “洗钱坡” (Xǐqiánpō, “money laundering slope”)—a sardonic play on the city-state’s Mandarin name “新加坡” (Xīnjiāpō)—forecasting the collapse of a city abandoned by speculative capital.

But the data tells a different story. According to Euromonitor International, Singapore’s luxury market is projected to grow 7-9% in 2025, reaching S$13.9 billion—outpacing Japan, China, and South Korea. This isn’t a collapse. It’s restructuring. Understanding this transformation requires going back to 2019.

From Hong Kong to Singapore: The Great Migration of 2019

When Hong Kong‘s anti-extradition bill protests intensified in 2019, the geography of Asian finance began to shift. People used to say, “The real concern here is that people are moving their companies and their money in greater numbers to Singapore.”

Back then, 23% of companies with offices in Hong Kong were considering relocating business functions, with nine out of ten choosing Singapore as their preferred destination. When Hong Kong’s National Security Law took effect in June 2020, the exodus accelerated.

Hong Kong’s strict zero-COVID policies during the pandemic further drove financial talent and businesses toward Singapore. Assets managed by Singapore’s asset management industry doubled in just 6 years to approximately $4 trillion, with 80% of that coming from abroad. Global asset managers like BlackRock expanded their Singapore operations, while Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan shut down its entire equity team in Hong Kong.

The Anti-Corruption Campaign and Chinese Capital Flight

Another engine drove capital into Singapore: Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, launched after his 2012 ascension—the most extensive in Chinese Communist Party history.

Under the banner of catching “tigers and flies alike,” more than 4.7 million officials have been disciplined since 2012, including 553 at ministerial rank or above. Operations “Sky Net” and “Fox Hunt” pursued fugitives across 90 countries and recovered billions in offshore assets.

According to Germany’s Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), “Since 2015, the specter of capital flight has been haunting the Chinese economy. Faced with the threat of currency devaluation and an aggressive anti-corruption campaign, investors and savers began moving their wealth out of China. The outflow was so large that the central bank was forced to spend more than $1 trillion of its foreign exchange reserves to defend the exchange rate.”

Much of this money flowed into Singapore. The city-state’s family offices surged from 400 in 2020 to 1,100 by the end of 2022. The nickname “洗钱坡” (money laundering slope) emerged from this context.

The Battle for Asia’s Crypto Hub

Money laundering demand intersected with the cryptocurrency industry. Following China’s 2017 ICO restrictions and 2021 outright ban, major Chinese exchanges—including Binance, Huobi, Bybit, and OKX—relocated en masse to Singapore. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin observed that “Singapore is becoming the center of crypto communities.”

Why Singapore? Because it was the only viable answer in Asia.

Japan had already learned painful lessons. In 2014, Tokyo-based Mt. Gox—then handling over 70% of global Bitcoin transactions—collapsed after hackers stole approximately $500 million worth of Bitcoin. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (JFSA) responded by introducing the world’s first registration system for cryptocurrency exchanges in 2016. When another Japanese crypto exchange, Coincheck, lost $534 million in NEM tokens in January 2018, regulations tightened further.

South Korea went through its own reckoning. The 2017 crypto boom brought a flood of speculative demand, creating the notorious “kimchi premium“—where Bitcoin prices in Korea traded significantly higher than global markets. Authorities responded with tightened regulations, a stance further reinforced by FATF’s 2019 Travel Rule recommendations requiring the sharing of customer information for transactions above certain thresholds.

Singapore took a different approach. While it introduced the Payment Services Act (PSA) in 2019, the framework remained relatively flexible. Foreign crypto firms were granted regulatory exemptions allowing them to operate temporarily without licenses, provided they didn’t serve Singapore retail investors. The industry consensus became: “If you want to do blockchain business in Asia, Singapore is the place.”

Token2049, Asia’s largest blockchain conference, relocated from Hong Kong to Singapore in 2022, driven by Hong Kong’s zero-COVID policies and regulatory risks in China. Attendance surged from 7,000 in 2022 to 20,000 in 2024, reaching a record-breaking 25,000 in 2025.

The Turning Point: Terra-Luna, FTX, and the Fujian Gang

But 2022 marked a turning point for Singapore as well.

The Terra-Luna collapse in May, the FTX bankruptcy in November—both had Singapore connections. Singapore-headquartered Three Arrows Capital (3AC) also went bankrupt. In 2023 came the $2.3 billion Fujian Gang money laun…

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