Bitcoin briefly dropped to as low as $60K on February 5, its lowest level since November 2024 and down ~50% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall
from Epstein to quantum to AI to the death of crypto twitter — clobbering the coins [image]@luke_metro:how low does crypto have to drop before I never have to hear about Fairshake again@samczsun:on one hand the crypto dream feels dead but on the other hand weve finally figured out how to spin ai agents into the shitcoin grift cycle so really who can say@evan_ss6:If you can't handle the 70% drawdowns, then you don't deserve the 5% pumps. HODLLinda Xie /@ljxie:Regardless of how I feel about it, I'
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Discussion
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@saylor
Michael Saylor
on x
HODL
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
It's hard not to think that the explosion of DAT companies last year, where various crypto holders exchanged their tokens for inflated equity, was a big last gasp for this industry
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@ljxie
Linda Xie
on x
Unless they were flat out scamming, I don't think people should be shamed if they decide to leave crypto and pursue something that interests them esp if they've been in it a long time. I only don't like it if they trash everyone else who wants to stay and keep building
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@arthur0x
Arthur
on x
So this is what end of an era feels like. Have always wondered how some of the biggest industries and sectors in the past went into another era. Surreal to experience it first hand.
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@arrington
@arrington
on x
I may be even more bullish medium and long term than @balajis
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@cryptohayes
Arthur Hayes
on x
Mommy ... I'm scared. 😱
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@camiinthisthang
Cami
on x
I'm telling you guys the next 3 months are about to get wild All the smart people will either try to go to one of the few crypto projects with sustainable revenue & growth or will leave crypto completely We saw 3 of the smartest ppl outright leave crypto in the last 48 hours
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@brian_armstrong
Brian Armstrong
on x
True Corollary: there are opportunities in every market (and right now there are definitely some great ones!)
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@elerianm
Mohamed A. El-Erian
on x
Quick market update: As forced liquidations continue and new margin calls are issued, Bitcoin prices have now plummeted 25% this week alone. The scale and disorderly nature of the sell-off are spilling to crypto-adjacent assets and also beyond. #markets #crypto #bitcoin [image]
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@tjl
Tom Lee
on x
this seems premature to me. Crypto's key use case is doing financial crime. Financial crime is currently (mostly) legal, reducing demand. These conditions presumably will not last forever.
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@follis_
@follis_
on x
What a day for crypto Another $2.6B+ liquidated from the market 500,000+ positions $BTC -14% on the day $ETH -16% on the day 90% of alts are trading at all-time lows If you are still here, congratulations You have already outperformed many 🤝 [image]
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@izebel_eth
Jez
on x
i always knew i was bad at trading memecoins i just forgot btc is a memecoin
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
10 REASONS WHY THIS IS THE WORST CRYPTO WINTER EVER In today's newsletter, I wrote about how there are just numerous dynamics all happening at once — from Epstein to quantum to AI to the death of crypto twitter — clobbering the coins [image]
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@luke_metro
@luke_metro
on x
how low does crypto have to drop before I never have to hear about Fairshake again
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@samczsun
@samczsun
on x
on one hand the crypto dream feels dead but on the other hand weve finally figured out how to spin ai agents into the shitcoin grift cycle so really who can say
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@evan_ss6
@evan_ss6
on x
If you can't handle the 70% drawdowns, then you don't deserve the 5% pumps. HODL
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@ljxie
Linda Xie
on x
Regardless of how I feel about it, I've never had so many people I respect tell me I should leave crypto
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@sumitroy2
Sumit Roy
on x
Bitcoin fell below two symbolic levels today: its pre-Trump election price and its 2021 cycle high (today's intraday low $66,600) $BTC [image]
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@taikimaeda2
Taiki Maeda
on x
I know it's scary, but we are nearing a capitulation event where you want to be buying the blood. A year or two from now, BTC might be trading at $200k. HYPE can be $100. ETH might even be at $1500. It's important to think long-term and stay rational. [image]
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@fintechfrank
Frank Chaparro
on x
GS: “While the sentiment surrounding cryptocurrencies may appear to be waning (Figure 2), these episodes have historically provided opportunities to engage in length. A chart worth paying close attention to is the BTC / XAU ratio which is testing a multi-year level” [image]
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@donalt
@donalt
on x
We've hit price levels I want to buy But I thought we would only hit those price levels with Saylor getting into trouble/The Epstein case being blown open much more/The stock market tanking We got none of those things and went there anyway which makes it hard to buy the dip
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@balajis
Balaji
on x
I have never been more bullish on crypto. Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn't matter. As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war
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@donalt
@donalt
on x
I'll buy 100% guaranteed 1) Trump steps back/Gets impeached/Removed/Dies 2) BTC goes to $40k - I think that's hilariously cheap 3) Epstein perpetrators get revealed/leaked and people associated get charged Until then I'll play it day by day and just go off of gut feeling
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@galois_capital
Galois Kevin
on x
Crypto market is just digesting 10/10 shit, DAT shit, quantum shit, and reg shit. Once it's all digested, it will be fine.
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@shaunmmaguire
Shaun Maguire
on x
I love crypto I will always believe It's an incredible community Crypto and AI were born as siamese twins Anyone that was in both pre AlexNet understands this Elon, Sam Altman, Balaji, etc were all interested in both Two sides of the applied math coin That will merge again
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
The fact that crypto and silver are getting clobbered at the same time as the SaaS stocks makes me think that the “AI disruption” story is a little too pat of an explanation for what's going on.
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@mert
@mert
on x
@balajis this is the year we evolve web 3.0 to capitalism 2.0
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@donalt
@donalt
on x
$BTC update: Lucky to have held off on buying Bulls need to reclaim the old range high ($71k) for the bull case to be rescued Waiting for that reclaim or at the lower support ($44k) makes loads of sense to me Anything in between sucks structurally [image]
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@lomahcrypto
Loma
on x
At some point, they'll run out of Bitcoin to sell right? [image]
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@adamscochran
Adam Cochran
on x
Crypto and stocks learning what Lindsay ment. Not only did you round trip your bags, but the dollar is also worth 10% less, so you're actually even more poor! Congrats! 😁
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@dgt10011
Jeff Park
on x
Bitcoin implied vol is now at 75% This is the highest level since the ETF launch in 2024 It is also finally higher than gold volatility Know it's a lot of pain right now, but this is all part of the process required for Bitcoin to make new highs The melt up will be fast [image]
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@splitcapital
Zaheer
on x
Highest volume day since the 2024 election season, on Binance spot. 106,000+ BTC traded. [image]
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@thecryptodog
@thecryptodog
on x
Someone launched a token with my face on it and BTC nuked to 66.6k damn
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@divine_economy
David Phelps
on x
am more excited about crypto than ever. we can weep all we want that our fake liquidity ponzi hold-for-five-minutes creator memecoin tokenize-everything future-of-republican-party bull cases all failed, but i— i think this is the best thing that's happened to crypto in years.
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@lukegromen
Luke Gromen
on x
Perhaps most important chart in macro right now 10y UST yld - 10y JGB yld (blue) v. USDJPY Markets appear to be discounting that the rate that forces BOJ back into YCC to avoid a Japan (& then global) debt crisis may not be too far north of here BTC crash & gold vol = symptoms [i…
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@cburniske
Chris Burniske
on x
Watching with interest, but not buying yet. Expect a bounce, but doubt the bloodletting is done.
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@ledgerstatus
Ledger
on x
I am both bullish and poor
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@arthur0x
Arthur
on x
A day to go down in the crypto history books [image]
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@fintechfrank
Frank Chaparro
on x
The biggest allocators are telling me a very different story than what crypto Twitter is sharing. Lesson there.
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@birdyword
Mike Bird
on x
If you're a bitcoin investor freaking out about the selloff, have no fear: it's only down over the last week in dollar terms (fake fiat money). It's up in silver. [image]
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@chiweethedog
Roy Drones Jr
on x
Anyone checking in with El Salvador's bitcoin dictator
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@nouriel
Nouriel Roubini
on x
The Crypto Apocalypse Out of 20k ICOs: 80% of them (16k) were a total criminal scam in the first place - steal the money and run - based on results of an academic research paper. Another 18% of them (3.6k) went to zero and collapsed . Of remaining 2% (400) that survived those
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@intocryptoverse
Benjamin Cowen
on x
Every cycle is the same. Yes, crypto could bounce. And honestly, it would be great for sentiment if it could. But even if it does, it would most likely result in a macro lower high. I don't try and time those bounces. I have tried before with mixed levels of success. Sometimes [i…
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@mattzeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
on x
obviously crypto has died and lived a million times but i do wonder if this is kinda a tipping point or winnowing, like the regulatory environment for crypto will never be more friendly than it is right now and yet it went sideways and then puked
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@bon_g
Bong
on x
My money was losing 7% per year due to inflation so I decided to invest into crypto Now I'm losing 30% per month [image]
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@dcinvestor
@dcinvestor
on x
to anyone serious who's left in crypto: this is the creator of ClawdBot / OpenClaw probably the most important consumer agentic AI project, and the likely starting point for the onchain agent economy his POV about crypto people is common. the popular perception has shifted
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@portfolioxpert
Bob Kendall
on x
So here's the issue you get influencers like this guy have a quarter million followers and they claim they don't know why it is declining... it's because they don't understand basic mechanics of price discovery. They don't understand that the marginal buyers or the float
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@karlbode.com
Karl Bode
on bluesky
oh I see you've noticed your miracle technological revolution has no function outside of money laundering and speculative chodeism
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r/wallstreetInvestment
r
on reddit
Bitcoin drops below $70,000 as sell-off continues