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BTC looks to be forming a double top bearish reversal pattern on the daily chart.

The hot ball of money moved around, leaving the total crypto market cap listless, Mirai Labs' Garrison Yang told CoinDesk.

The Official Trump cryptocurrency has seen a big pullback over the last week of trading. The token was launched late on Jan. 17 and rocketed higher in its first day on the market, but it's subsequently seen a significant valuation decline. Official Trump's valuation is falling in conjunction with negative media coverage and reactions from some cryptocurrency investors and post-inauguration trading momentum.

XRP's biggest headwinds are dissipating as fresh tailwinds kick in.

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) stock has been on a tear lately, with a whopping 358% gain over the past 12 months alone. In fact, I think Robinhood stock could plunge by at least 50% from its current price around $50 (as of this writing). First, there is transaction revenue, which it earns when clients buy and sell stocks or cryptocurrencies.

With Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) reputation for being "digital gold" cementing rapidly, it's the perfect example of how the idea of money as a form of value storage is changing to be more fluid and less pinned down to physical objects. Most people would point to physical gold as a store of value. The global market cap for gold, at the prevailing market price of around $2,751 per ounce, is roughly $18.4 trillion.

Generally speaking, stock splits take place when the price of a stock is deemed to be too expensive for the average investor. In a stock split, there is no change to the overall market cap of the stock. In a 2-for-1 stock split, for example, the number of shares doubles, but the price of each share is cut in half.