As reported in Yahoo News, the wannabe-Kardashian twins running Hazelnut Café owners of the Ocean County café thought it was perfectly reasonable to demand a mom’s credit card after their wobbly Anthropologie console — masquerading as a dining table — took a dive when Kathy Denman’s 3-year-old came into contact with it.

Let’s pause to appreciate that these entrepreneurs decided a $1,600 piece of decorative furniture would make an excellent café table. What’s next, using Ming vases as coffee mugs?

While little Allie stood frozen in shock and her 76-year-old grandmother dissolved into tears, the owners repeatedly barked “You break it, you buy it!” into the phone like deranged parrots. According to Denman, not once did they ask if the toddler was okay.

Only Saint Michael the Barista showed any human emotion, becoming what the mom called her “point of contact” in the sea of mean-girl energy. Meanwhile, the owners held the family hostage for 20 minutes, demanding credit card information while bits of their $1,600 disaster lay scattered like their dignity.

The sisters’ PR statement reads like it was composed by ChatGPT having a stroke: “We also want to be completely transparent: we would never hold anyone against their will. The mother was not charged for the damaged table, even after asking how she could make it right given the table broke. We requested her contact information for insurance purposes,” they said.

At least this saga had a happy ending — the café removed all their potentially child-crushing tables. Finally, the standing-room-only coffee shop of our dystopian dreams.

Previously:
• This woman broke into a monkey exhibit at the zoo, sat in their pool, and fed them Hot Cheetos

In a May 22 post on X, Extractor, a tracking tool created by cybersecurity firm Hacken, reported that around $63 million had already been moved to Ethereum, and 20,000 ETH
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$2,537.25

Following the incident, many tokens saw drops in price on Cetus. Some, like Lombard Staked BTC (LBTC) and AXOLcoin (AXOL), lost nearly all of their value. The biggest fifteen losses were all above 75%.

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The exchange has paused its smart contract to stop further activity and stated that it will give an update when services resume.

One wallet linked to the incident currently holds nearly $52 million in SUI, about $4.9 million in Haedal Staked SUI (HASUI), $19.5 million in Toilet (TOILET) tokens, a similar amount in wrapped USDT
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$0.9944

Cetus reported in an update on X that $162 million of over $220 million has been frozen. The exchange is working with the Sui Foundation and other network groups to recover the rest.

The Sui Foundation confirmed that many validators are currently blocking transactions from the wallets connected to the stolen funds.

Additionally, Cetus offers the attacker a $6 million reward and will drop any legal or public actions if the stolen assets, including the 20,920 ETH (worth over $55 million), are returned.

However, the offer comes with a warning—if the funds are moved to mixers or withdrawn through exchanges, Cetus will use legal and intelligence resources to pursue the case. In a separate post on X, Cetus stated, “We encourage the hacker to sincerely consider our offer terms”.

On May 15, Coinbase was targeted in a $20 million extortion attempt after attackers bribed overseas support staff. How did the exchange respond to the incident? Read the full story.

Trading volumes have more than doubled during this period and the price currently sits at $2.21 per token.

Trader Ali Martinez, whose X account is followed by nearly 137,000 users on X, shared two pivotal levels from which XRP could rally to higher highs in this positive environment.

The first of those levels is the $2 area, which coincides with the token’s 200-day exponential moving average (EMA). The price has bounced once from that area already and it was that price level that triggered the latest rally, meaning that trading volumes and buying interest is strong there.

The second key area highlighted by Martinez is $2.26. This one is the key resistance to watch down the road. If the price breaks above this marker, Ali’s XRP price prediction does not share a specific target for the token but he did say that a bullish or bearish breakout off these price levels could “set the tone for the next major trend.”

Key Levels to Watch for XRP as the Rally Accelerates

As expected, the Fed left interest rates unchanged for the time being. However, the Chairman of the U.S. central bank mentioned that they see a high risk of rising unemployment and high inflation as a result of the trade policies adopted by the Trump administration.

Still, the markets reacted positively to these comments, possibly as participants expect further rate cuts down the road if the economy shows signs of weakening growth.

This is a constructive scenario for XRP and other cryptocurrencies as lower rates provide higher liquidity to the market and tend to push prices higher.

Using Elliott Wave analysis, XRP appears to be in wave four of a bullish trend that could eventually push the price to at least $7.

The token has been consolidating since its December peak but has mostly remained above the 200-day EMA – a sign that the long-term trend remains intact.

As long as $2 holds as support, the price structure stays bullish, with a potential breakout above the $3.40 all-time high confirming the start of wave five.

Such a move would offer a 2x return from that level if XRP hits the $7 target.

While a $50 price remains a stretch for now, current market dynamics continue to support a positive outlook.

Meanwhile, some early-stage presales are catching investor attention as potential high-upside plays in this improving environment.

MIND of Pepe Surges Past $8.8M in Presale for AI-Powered Agent

MIND of Pepe (MIND) is a powerful AI agent token inspired by the viral internet meme Pepe the Frog.

The agent is designed to captivate large audiences across social media platforms like X by engaging in interesting conversations with high-profile users to discuss topics related to meme coins and the state of the crypto market.

As its influence grows, it will pass all of the insights it collects from these interactions to $MIND holders. It may also launch its own meme coins and give the MIND of Pepe community exclusive access to the private sales of these tokens to position them favorably to reap the highest returns.

The presale event will soon end so don’t miss the opportunity to grab some $MIND tokens at their discounted price of $0.0037515.

To buy $MIND, simply head to the MIND of Pepe website and connect your wallet (e.g. Best Wallet). You can either swap USDT or ETH or use a bank card to invest.

The post XRP Compression Pattern Points to Liftoff – Is $50 XRP Still on the Table? (XRP Price Prediction) appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin is staging a rebellion against traditional markets, gaining more than 2% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq dropped nearly 6% in a single day.

As Trump’s tariffs caused chaos, over $3.2 trillion was wiped out from stocks, yet crypto added $5.4 billion in market cap. Now traders are asking; is BTC finally breaking free from Wall Street’s grip?

Decoupling From Mainstream Markets

“This is insane, BTC is detaching right before our eyes,” tweeted crypto analyst Cory Bates, reacting to data showing the biggest stock market indexes in the red, with Bitcoin up 2%.

In a post on X, Ryan Rasmussen, head of research at Bitwise, showed the performances of several major tech stocks since Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day.”

The likes of Google, Amazon, and Meta were all down by double figures, with Apple the worst-hit, plunging almost 16% in that period. Even gold, the classic safe haven, crumbled 3%, leaving Bitcoin as the last asset standing.

Crypto influencer Kyle Chassé posed a question on X, asking whether BTC could benefit from the ongoing trade war drama, to which a user emphatically responded, “Bitcoin is the only asset to be in right now.”

Meanwhile, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes cheekily suggested that holders of the cryptocurrency need to “learn to love tariffs” as it showed signs of dissociating with traditional financial markets. Earlier, he had predicted that Trump’s new trade policy could force central banks to start printing money, which could be good for Bitcoin.

BTC to $100K?

Bitcoin’s recent performance relative to Wall Street has led to some measure of optimism. Popular chartist MacroScope revisited a theory they had shared earlier of a possible “handoff,” where BTC diverges positively from gold and broader market risks, a trend not seen since 2019.

“BTC positive divergence from gold and risk in past 24 hours is striking. Haven’t seen it to this extent in a long time,” wrote the analyst.

In their previous post, they called it the “gold leads, BTC eventually follows” relationship. This has held true at a few key inflection points in past years, especially from 2019 to 2020, when gold rallied first, and Bitcoin exploded soon after by a whopping 344%.

“A reclaim of 100k would imply a ‘handoff’ from gold to BTC,” said MacroScope. This, in their opinion, would open the door to a period of “huge outperformance” by Bitcoin over other assets.

However, not everyone is convinced. “Don’t be ultra greedy on crypto this weekend,” warned Master Kenobi, pointing to a possible “rug pull” happening at the start of next week.

The post Bitcoin Defies Global Market Meltdown: Is $100K Back on the Table? appeared first on CryptoPotato.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes believes that it is now in the cards for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to witness sustained rallies en route to new all-time highs.

The crypto veteran says on the social media platform X that he thinks Bitcoin has the potential to rally above its current record high of $108,000 after Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that he plans to reduce the pace of quantitative tightening (QT) by April 1st.

According to Hayes, the announcement puts the Fed in the position to transition from QT to quantitative easing (QE), a condition that has triggered crypto bull runs in the past.

QE is a monetary policy used by central banks to prop up the economy by printing more money to accumulate financial assets. New money flows into the financial system, boosting spending and investments.

“I bet BTC hits $110,000 before it retests $76,500.

Why? The Fed is going from QT to QE for Treasuries. And tariffs don’t matter cause ‘transitory inflation.’ [Jerome Powell] told me so…

My grammar was a bit off. What I mean is that the price is more likely to hit $110,000 than $76,500 next. If we hit $110,000, then it’s yachtzee time and we ain’t looking back until $250,000.”

At time of writing, Bitcoin is trading for $87,641.

As for Ethereum, Hayes predicts that ETH will hit a new record high before its layer-1 rival Solana (SOL) does.

“ETH to $5,000 before SOL to $300. Who is with me?”

At time of writing, ETH is worth $2,068 while SOL is trading for $144.

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