Announcing the enhanced 2026 Pick of the Year contest! Now with scrubbing bubbles!!

[BlueWolf]

And they’re off! In 1st place we have Jiesen’s PMRTY, in 2nd is Massimo’s ACMIF, and in 3rd is my pick NXT. We’re kind of off to a rough start as the markets whipped around a little, but here’s hoping the coming weeks treat us more kindly. Here’s the initial standings after the first week.

[jiesen]

I have a good feeling about JH's pick, RIOT. If PMRTY is going up 20% this year (and it will) I think RIOT could do 40% or even 60%, as Bitcoin makes its way back over 90k. HOOD should do very well, when bitcoin recovers, too.... If bitcoin hits 100k again this year, they'll both be in the top 3 for the POTY, imo. (Of course there's the equally likely scenario that bitcoin drops to 45k by the end of the year.... but we'll not consider that for the purposes of POTY!)

[BlueWolf]

It was a bit of a mixed week for the market with two of the indices up and one down. Lots of important news lately, so we’ll have to see what shakes out over the next few weeks. Anyway, here’s our leaderboard: Jiesen’s PMRTY is holding on to 1st, with Massimo’s ACMIF in 2nd, and my own pick, NXT, meekly hanging on to 3rd. Here’s the complete standings.