Market Mood #12 · Mon 19 Oct Crypto hacks cost about $1.18 billion last quarter. News score is at 0 for a fifth day. Mood stays Nervous. Our mood gauge (0 to 100): about 63 before news, about 38 after. That reads as nervous. Last time (#11): about 38. Dragging it down: · Hacken counted about $1.18 billion stolen in 107 hacks from July to September, 55% more than the quarter before. · An attacker emptied 1,404 Qubic wallets in under two hours, worth about $1.3 million. Most of it is now frozen. · From July 2027, people in Russia may not move crypto from a regulated account to their own wallet. Still helping: · Stablecoin payments reached about $482 billion from January to September, up 45% from last year. · BNY and Citadel Securities used a token version of a US Treasury bond for an overnight loan. It settled in minutes. · EU regulators named USDC the first significant stablecoin under their rules. Closer oversight starts 12 November. Our news score is about 0 out of 100 for a fifth day, the bottom of the scale. Hacks and fund outflows lead. What this means: mood stays at about 38, the same as last time, still nervous. The big picture is fine, but the news keeps pulling it down. Where would you put the needle today, 0 to 100? Before the news. After the news. #MessyMood Checked this morning · Not advice.

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