On February 3, Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus criticized Michael Saylor's recent comment describing Bitcoin's sharp price swings as "Satoshi's gift". Markus responded with a sarcastic post on X as Bitcoin dropped from $90,000 to an intra-day low of $73,000, while Saylor's firm Strategy continued to add BTC on the dip. Earlier, Saylor disclosed Strategy's latest 855 BTC purchase for about $75.3 million, bringing its holdings to 713,502 BTC.

According to Shibburn data, the Shiba Inu community destroyed a total of 4,804,534 SHIB in the last 24 hours, pushing the daily burn rate up by 380.45% across five transactions. Over the same period, SHIB fell from $0.00000783 to $0.00000646, then recovered about 4% to $0.00000671 while a Shiba Inu executive on X said they were not worried about Bitcoin’s sharp move below $80,000.

On January 30, 2026, Binance CEO Richard Teng endorsed the company's open letter addressing market volatility and service standards. The letter outlined plans to convert the $1 billion SAFU, currently in stablecoins, into Bitcoin over the next thirty days and to top the fund back up if its value falls to $800 million.

Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3 and long‑time Bitcoin advocate, has aligned himself with an X user's forecast of an "Omega candle" that could raise BTC by $100,000. He maintains a longer‑term view that Bitcoin can reach $1,000,000, while author Robert Kiyosaki recently said selling part of his Bitcoin and gold holdings to buy a house was a big mistake and continues using real estate income to accumulate crypto.

On January 22, 2026 at WEF Davos, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao outlined three priorities for crypto: state-level asset tokenization, crypto as an invisible payments rail, and AI agents transacting natively with digital assets. He also said exchanges and stablecoins have proven at scale and forecast declining reliance on physical banks over the next decade.

Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus has reacted on X to a sharp crypto market downturn that erased about $150,000,000,000 in value as Bitcoin dropped under $90,000 and gold set a fresh record above $4,800 per ounce. Markus, known online as "Shibetoshi Nakamoto," replied with a brief "oh" to a post highlighting the scale of liquidations, while separately the firm Strategy disclosed a purchase of 22,305 BTC for roughly $2.13 billion at a price of about $95,284 per coin.

On Jan 19, 2026, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said institutional demand for Bitcoin remains strong, citing about 577,000 BTC (roughly $53 billion) added to US custody wallets over the past year, with ETF holdings included. Meanwhile, Peter Brandt forecast a decline toward $60,000, potentially $50,000, from around $91,000.

According to on-chain data shared by Lookonchain on January 19, 2026, a wallet potentially associated with Fenbushi Capital moved 7,798 ETH, valued at $25 million, from a two-year staking position to Binance, likely to sell. The transfer coincided with Ethereum sliding 4.5% from $3,360 to about $3,220, while CoinShares reported $1.55 billion of weekly inflows into Bitcoin products and hundreds of millions into Ethereum and Solana. Over the same period, Bitcoin fell on new U.S. trade tariffs against Europe before rebounding from $92,490 to $93,180, with an analyst attributing the move to renewed spot demand.

On Jan. 18, 2026, SHIB marketing lead Lucie told holders there is "no panic" and that SHIB and SOU are "moving up together" as SOU NFTs track obligations tied to the late‑2025 Shibarium exploit. The daily burn rate jumped 3,904.47%, with 29,998,516 SHIB sent to dead wallets via two transfers of 28,000,000 and 1,576,200.