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I’ve been closely watching the renewed strength in precious metals, and it doesn’t feel accidental. Gold pushing into new highs while silver moves even faster suggests a clear shift in market positioning. These moves rarely come from optimism alone. What stands out is the conviction behind the rally. Gold moved decisively, and silver followed with stronger momentum. This points to broad participation, not just long-term holders, but also traders and institutions seeking protection. When confidence in policy direction, geopolitics, or financial stability weakens, assets with no counterparty risk regain importance. This rally also signals a change in market psychology: • Risk-taking has been easy for a long time • Defensive positioning was largely ignored • Awareness is growing that conditions can shift quickly Silver deserves special attention. Its sharper percentage gains suggest a mix of speculation and industrial demand. That combination often makes silver more volatile, but also more informative when momentum builds. When gold and silver rise together, it usually signals deeper forces at work rather than a short-term trade. I’m not just watching these charts for entries or exits. I’m watching them for clues. Precious metals often move early, before uncertainty becomes obvious. Right now their message is clear and worth paying attention to.
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19 January 2026
There's something uniquely agonising about having your cryptocurrency stolen. All transactions are recorded on a digital ledger, known as a blockchain, so even if someone takes your money and puts it in their own crypto wallet, it is still visible online.
"You can see your money there on the public blockchain, but there's nothing you can do to get it back," says Helen, who lost around $315,000 (£250,000) to thieves.
She likens it to watching a burglar pile up your prized possessions on the other side of an impassable chasm.
For seven years Helen and her husband Richard (not his real name), both UK residents, had been buying and stacking up crypto coins called Cardano.
They liked the idea of investing in a digital asset that had the potential to rise dramatically in value, unlike funds saved in more conventional ways. They knew it was riskier, but they were careful to keep their digital keys safe.
But somehow hackers got into their cloud storage account, where they kept information about their crypto wallets and how to access them.

In February 2024, after a small test transfer, the criminals sent all the couple's coins to their own digital wallets in a swift and silent attack.
The couple then watched for months as their money was moved from one wallet to another, powerless to do anything. (The inherent contradiction with crypto currency is that all transactions are publicly trackable but users can be publicly untraceable if they choose.)
Helen and Richard are not wealthy. She is a personal assistant, he is a composer, and they had high hopes for their Cardano investments.
"We'd been buying these coins for so long... We used every scrap of money we could find to buy more," says Richard. "Aside from my parents' deaths, this theft is the worst thing to happen to me."
Ever since, Helen has been on a mission to recover their money. She obtained detailed reports from various police forces and the Cardano developers. Now, even though she has the wallet address of the criminals, there is nothing anyone can do to unmask them.
Their plan is to save up enough to engage private investigators to try to trace the hackers.
"It leaves you with a feeling of helplessness," she says, "but I am going to keep trying."
An explosion in crypto crime
A survey carried out for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in August 2024, suggested that approximately 12% of British adults owned crypto-assets - equivalent to about seven million people.
Globally, it has been estimated that 560 million people are now crypto owners. But as ownership rose, so did theft. The pandemic ushered in a surge in the value of crypto coins and with it an explosion in attacks on the industry.
And 2025 was another bumper year for crypto criminals, with total thefts standing at more than $3.4bn (£2.5bn), according to investigators at blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. The annual figure has remained in the same ballpark since 2020.

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