RJ Hamster
The Two-Hour Bitcoin Massacre
| Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for moreThe Two-Hour Bitcoin MassacreFrom 6:00pm last night to 8:00pm, Bitcoin fell off a cliff, sliding from $91,159 to $87,100 in the space of exactly two hours.THE CRYPTO ALARMDEC 1 READ IN APP There are days when Bitcoin trades like a global reserve asset.And… then there are days when it trades like a nuclear bomb that’s been planted in a major city with a countdown timer set to explode at precisely 6pm on the dot (in a Hollywood movie, of course).Today was one of those days.From 6:00pm last night to 8:00pm, Bitcoin fell off a cliff, sliding from $91,159 to $87,100 in the space of exactly two hours.This was off the back of nothing.No big data release like a jobs report. No ETF outflows data release. No Fed meeting. No geopolitical bickering. Not even a Trump Truth Social post.A big, fat, nothingburger.We’re talking about a $1.7 trillion asset taking a 5.5% hit, out of the blue. There is no other asset on earth that moves like that on no news.Of course, the outcome of this move, is a mass set of liquidations. The Kobeissi Letter reported around $400 million in levered long liquidations in just sixty minutes[1].If you ever needed a reminder that Bitcoin has evolved into the most violently efficient liquidation engine in global finance, this was it.And boy, I hope you didn’t have any leveraged positions in play…The Anatomy of an ‘Invisible Dump’When markets fall like this with no catalyst, you have to understand how this market is now structured.This isn’t a bunch of OGs with Bitcoin on Mt.Gox, where a nervous fat finger can wreck the market in an afternoon. Not like the good old days.Nope, this is a market now packed with;• highly levered perpetual futures (sometimes up to 100x) • automated liquidation exits (no fat fingers, just fat, stupid algorithms) • whale-size trading desks (the OTC trading market is massive, more than retail can ever understand) • programmatic flows that never sleep (the market is more bot trading than human trading these days) • a market that still isn’t deep enough to swallow hundreds of millions in forced selling without eviscerating rookie players.Thing is, there’s no size of retail trading that makes a move like this happen.Instead, it looks a lot like a pre-planned liquidity event, a deliberate massive, coordinated dump into low volume, triggering systematic liquidations and intentionally smashing the market.Call it whatever you like, manipulation, opportunistic attack, engineered shakeout, but the key point is the same, someone (or someone’s) did this on purpose.You can’t see these moves coming. You can’t short-term trade them. You can’t make sense of them.And because you can’t do anything to anticipate or stop these things, you can only do what you can do… which is to use them to your advantage.So… Do You Buy the Dip?Yes. You do.This kind of move does not change the long-term trajectory of Bitcoin.These moves are not some kind of systemic red flag. It’s simply a reminder that Bitcoin is now the most aggressively traded asset in the world. And when leveraged positions get too crowded, and someone with enough clout feels like moving the market, they can and will.That sucks if you’re a short-term trader.But if you’re stacking for the next five to ten years (and longer), you look at this chart, shake your head, mutter something unprintable about whales and liquidation engines… and then you buy.You buy because long-term strategy beats short-term chaos.You buy because these violent flushes are the toll you pay for the greatest asymmetric opportunity in modern finance.And you buy because one day, when Bitcoin is seven figures and climbing, these dips will look like blessings in disguise.Trust in crypto, Adam AtlanticSource:[1] https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1995295289268371468The Crypto Alarm is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell The Crypto Alarm that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won’t be charged unless they enable payments.Pledge your support LIKECOMMENTRESTACK © 2025 The Crypto Alarm 6815 Biscayne Blvd Ste 103, Miami, FL 33138 USA Unsubscribe |
