Newsletter 378 - New Year, New Regime Change

Hey Shitcoiners,

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2026 is here and we enter the new year with hopium flowing through our veins. Will this year be different? We can only hope. To kick off this week’s newsletter we want to direct your attention to a special episode of Wage Cucking With Jmo! Tune in as we revisit our 2025 predictions and make some spicy ones for the year to come. Don’t miss it.

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As crypto develops as an asset class, regime changes hit us just as they do in other markets. The recent capture of Venezuelan President Maduro sent shockwaves around the world. Luckily for us, it was good for our bags.

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TRUMP may finally have a real use case!

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Maduro had not been on American soil for long and they have already set their sights on something else. A Greenland invasion might lead to green candles.

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Zcash is experiencing change of its own. The Electric Coin Company team has been “discharged” and are founding a new company.

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Shorts would be rewarded.

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And the memes would flow.

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Mert, a longtime advocate for Zcash, jumped in to squash the FUD.

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And we learned of the new startup the ECC team were founding. They would be leaving the non-profit life behind and going for that profit instead. What happens next is critical.

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Ryan Salame was posting from prison over the holidays. He shared some new light on Sam Trabucco’s “yacht”. What a beautiful vessel.

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Brett Harrison was an FTX casualty but he was cleared of any wrongdoing. Unfortunately he is not a big pork guy.

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Here’s the pork in question.

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We had a final hack to end 2025. Flow suffered a $4m loss as a malicious actor bridged stolen funds and bridged them off the chain. They decided to roll back the blockchain. Ecosystem players were left with headaches.

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