When total altcoin open interest starts creeping above Bitcoin’s, it often marks a local top 🔍

Traders rotate into high-beta plays chasing upside, usually when the market is overheated. It happened before each pullback.

📊 Watch alt OI dominance here. If ETH and others start flipping BTC, it might be time to derisk.

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Bitcoin maximalist Udi Wertheimer wrote a very bullish thesis on why we are entering a bull run for Bitcoin completely different from all the previous ones 🤑

His core idea is that a rare market event has taken place: full holder rotation. Old holders — crypto natives, nerds, maxis, and altcoin traders — have sold their BTC. New buyers, like ETFs, institutions, and treasury companies, now hold a growing share of the supply. These new players don’t behave like the old ones. They don’t try to time tops. They buy with size, on schedule, without regard for price.

📈 Because they aren't anchored to old charts, they don't see $100K as high. BlackRock's IBIT ETF started trading at $30 and is now around $70. For new entrants, it looks like the beginning of a move, not the end. Strategy's MSTR stock doesn’t even measure their position in BTC per coin — they deploy capital in dollar terms. This breaks the psychological ceiling for new investors that capped prior cycles.

This exact dynamic already played out with Dogecoin. Old holders used to sell every pump, thinking it was just a meme. But in 2020, a new wave of buyers on TikTok and Robinhood showed up. They didn’t know or care about historical prices, this asset was completely new to them. Once the old sellers ran out of coins, DOGE exploded 200x in two waves 🐶

Wertheimer believes Bitcoin is now in the same setup. Most crypto natives are distracted, underexposed, or completely out. Wall Street bought everyone’s coins while CT was chasing memes, alts and other vapor. The recent rally wasn’t the peak. It was the quiet handoff. The real move hasn’t started yet!

He thinks Bitcoin can hit $400K this year. That’s just phase one. If the world starts to believe, the second move will be bigger and faster. His advice: if you can buy 1 BTC, do it now. It might be the last chance ‼️

And don't assume that if Bitcoin doubles in value, your altcoins will increase 100x. This will only happen to a very few existing coins, and your odds of guessing which ones are near zero ⛔️

What Is Unit Bias in crypto? 🤔

Unit bias is the human tendency to prefer owning whole units of a low-priced asset instead of a fraction of a high-priced one. In crypto, this leads people to buy cheap coins simply because they "feel" more affordable.

🤔 Someone might skip buying 0.01 BTC for $1,200 and instead buy 10,000 tokens of a meme coin priced at $0.06 each — even if the latter has zero fundamentals.

The illusion of quantity over quality causes people to chase bad assets that look “cheap” but aren't. Many people think like this: "This token costs just $0.06, what if it goes to $1? I'll buy a million tokens and see what happens..." 🤔

This ties to a broader problem: most people struggle with abstract metrics like market cap or fully diluted valuation. They're hard to visualize. Price feels real. You can see it. You can feel it. But market cap is just math — and many ignore it 🤪

📊 To avoid unit bias, always check the market cap, token supply, and FDV. A $0.01 coin with a 100 billion token supply isn’t cheap. Look at the size of the pie, not the size of the slice.

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What Are Gaps and Will This One Fill?

🕯 Gaps form when the market skips over a price range without trading through it. On CME BTC Futures, this often happens after weekends when markets reopen.

The gap on the chart above, from around $114.4k to $115.6k, appeared after a higher Friday open. This creates an unfilled zone, a pocket of missing liquidity.

🤔 Why do traders even care about gaps? It is not some hidden force. Gaps often reflect emotional moves, news shocks, or thin liquidity. Markets tend to revisit these zones because they represent unfinished business. Many traders expect price to return and test that level. It becomes a target.

🧐 Do gaps always fill? No. But in BTC, especially on CME where the chart lags 24/7 spot markets, many do over time. Smaller gaps have higher fill rates. In this case, the green region is likely to be retested soon.

It is less about technical rules and more about shared psychology. Markets are not rational machines. They are crowds reacting to perceived imbalance ❗️

You act too quickly when you are trying to grow capital, and you act too slowly when you are trying to protect capital 🧠

I can say with confidence that this behavior quietly drains portfolios of most traders and investors. People chase gains with urgency, full of FOMO, jumping into trades, rotating fast, sizing up, often using leverage. But when those bets turn against them, they freeze. No reaction, just hope.

❌ It should be the other way around. Capital growth requires patience and deliberate positioning. Capital protection needs speed and clarity.

Warren Buffett puts it simply:

Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.

Most don’t plan their exits. They enter trades emotionally and exit them emotionally. That mismatch is what wrecks wealth compounding.

👉 Enter any position with a plan. Know where you are wrong. Act quickly when you need to protect your capital. This means cut loses fast, if you find yourself in the unwanted position — exit it asap.

Flip the instinct. Grow with caution. Protect with speed. That's how you can 'make it' in crypto ‼️

How to Lose $3.4 Billion in ETH by making stupid mistakes 😮

🤣 No rugs, no hackers. Just user errors, and broken contracts.

Hundreds of thousands of ETH coins are stuck in old multi-sig wallets that can never be recovered. Some smart contracts were so badly coded they locked $321M worth of ETH forever 🤭

One person lost access to 250k ETH by misplacing their private keys. Others sent millions to the wrong address and watched it disappear.

😂 And here is the best one: at least $100 million worth of ETH was sent straight into burn addresses like 0x0 and 0xdead, so that means people just decided to burn their money.

This is what self-custody looks like when things go wrong. No refunds. No undo button 😞

The total crypto market cap is now at $4 trillion. However, only 56 crypto protocols earn more than $1 million per month and most of them privatize 100% of this revenue 💸

🔍 Of these 56 projects, only a few actually share revenue with token holders — the one with the highest MRR that goes to token holders is Hyperliquid.

These stats are quite crazy, to be honest. Most coins in crypto are completely uninvestable, with teams and VCs waiting to dump on you giving nothing in return 😐

Longed HYPE off the daily trendline after the retest held clean. I was watching that level for days, now price tapped it for the 4th time with no follow-through from sellers 🔍

This trend’s been intact since May. Every dip into structure gets bought up, and I don’t need more than that. No signs of weakness, no close below support, no volume spike on the drop.

📈 I’m in where the risk is tight and the structure makes sense. If they nuke it below the trendline, I’m out without thinking twice. The R/R ratio is still good IMO.

Not trading for targets, not guessing tops. I’ll hold it as long as it keeps behaving. Letting the trend do the work 🔼

When Is It Safe to "Buy the Dip"? 🤔

Buying the dip can work, but only when you understand the structure behind the move. Not every dip is worth touching. Some are just the start of a deeper collapse.

🔍 A dip is worth considering when the price drops, then flattens out, consolidates, and shows signs of accumulation. You want to see buyers stepping in, selling pressure fading, and volatility calming down. This usually takes time.

Avoid dips where the price is in a straight freefall. No bounce, no consolidation, just a vertical drop with no support below. These are called falling knives for a reason. Catching them is gambling, not trading 🔽

Do not buy dips if 👇

1️⃣The chart is still printing lower lows with no pause

2️⃣Volume is rising on red candles but weak on green

3️⃣There's no clear support zone or previous structure to bounce from

4️⃣The selloff is driven by some very bad news

The safer entries come after the market has absorbed the panic. Once the range tightens and early buyers step in, risk becomes more defined. That’s when pros start building positions ‼️

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A massive 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka coast triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. Waves already hit the Kuril Islands and Japan, and Hawaii issued statewide evacuations ⚠️

Crypto prediction markets had this event priced at near-zero probability. Some traders are furious, watching their 99-to-1 'safe bets' implode in real time 😱

Bitcoin is trading in a very tight range right now. Nobody knows if we go up or down from here. But the resolution likely comes soon 👀

Markets are bracing for volatility because of these events 👇

⏺US GDP came in hot at 3% for Q2, beating expectations.

⏺FOMC decision is due later today, with Powell's press conference likely to move markets more than the rate call itself.

⏺Also today, the Trump administration released a long-awaited report from its crypto working group. Mentions Bitcoin, but no word on strategic BTC reserve.

⏺Friday brings the July U.S. jobs report.

⏺And nearly 37% of S&P 500 firms are reporting earnings later this week.

So, be careful. It's better to decrease your trading leverage and sit this one out 😌

Trump is crashing out after the Federal Reserve's yesterday's decision not to lower interest rates, leaving them unchanged at 4.25%-4.50% 🤣

He called Fed Chair Jerome Powell “too stupid” and “a total loser” 😂

What Is a Liquidity Void 🤔

These zones are created by strong, impulsive candles that slice through levels without resistance, often due to news, panic, or a liquidity grab.

🔍 In these voids, there's little to no consolidation or price acceptance. The market didn't spend time there, which means it left behind an "unfinished auction." These areas almost always attract price back later just like gaps on futures markets.

🕯 Why does this matter? Because price tends to revisit these inefficient zones. It's not guaranteed, but many traders treat them as magnets.

Typical signs of a liquidity void 👇

1️⃣A long candle with little to no wick

2️⃣Fast move through a previous range without pullbacks

3️⃣No visible structure or consolidation in the area

4️⃣Move was fueled mainly due to liquidation cascade

If prices pumps/dumps too fast and you're not quick enough to open your position, using these liquidity voids with fair value gaps can be a good place for your limit orders instead of chasing the price 👀

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Bitcoin has dropped by 3.85%, and is currently trading around the $115,100 support level. This has dragged down the entire market, along with hopes for an immediate altcoin season 😣

The final straw that prompted bears to start selling was the announcement of new tariffs ranging from 15% to 41% on goods shipped to the U.S. from more than 67 countries 😱

👇 Are you buying the dip?

YES — 🐳

NO — 🫡

Remember this post about gaps? Today we just closed a BTC gap on CME futures that was mentioned there ✅

Market continues to decline after Trump ordered the repositioning of two nuclear submarines near Russia in response to provocative statements made by former Russian President 😱

What Are Cascading Liquidations? 🔽

Cascading liquidations are chain reactions caused by forced closures of leveraged positions. Most people think of crashes, but they happen both ways. When prices move fast, traders on the wrong side get liquidated. This triggers more liquidations, creating a feedback loop.

🗓 This is why you sometimes see seemingly impossible price movements, such as the 51.5% drop in the value of BTC in just two days on 12 March 2020. Such moves are often just a reflection of the market clearing out one side's leverage.

While the price is dropping, many traders try to catch the bottom and average down their positions by increasing their size. These actions only add fuel to the fire, making the situation even crazier.

To not get rekt you need to 👇

1️⃣Monitor the funding rate for abnormally high or low values, as this means that the trade is overcrowded.

2️⃣Check price zones where a large number of liquidations are concentrated; sometimes the market literally hunts for them, you can use Coinglass for this info.

3️⃣Always use a stop-loss order to make potential losses predictable and manageable.

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This BTC dump reminds me a lot of August 2023 😱

Back then, we topped on July 14, then dropped 21% into September 11 before reversing and rallying nonstop into January 📈

Now in August 2025, same thing — local top on July 14, and now selling off hard. If we repeat a 20% drawdown, we'd land around $100k, possibly $98k, which already marked the bottom back in June.

🐻 Not calling for a bear market. I’m still bullish for Q4. But the clean uptrend is broken, and this correction could run deeper. Key zones for BTC are: $105k, $100k, $94k.

If we nuke into those levels, I’ll be a happy buyer. Until then, if you’re overexposed or on leverage that can’t survive a deeper move, reduce risk ❗️

Top 5 Free Tools for Crypto Technical Analysis 🕯

Want pro-level market insights without paying for a Bloomberg Terminal? Here are 5 free tools that traders actually use 👇

📈 TradingView
The standard for charting in both crypto and traditional markets. Packed with indicators, drawing tools, and a huge script library. Free to use, but with some limitations.

🔍 Coinalyze
Perfect for futures traders. Get funding rates, open interest, liquidations, and volume data across major exchanges.

🔍 Coinglass
Visualize funding rates, long/short ratios, liquidation heatmaps, and historical OI trends. Great for spotting market sentiment shifts.

🔍 Koyfin
This one combines macro data, equities, FX, and crypto charts with filtering and dashboarding — has a free tier.

🔍 BitScreener
A crypto screener with built-in charts, fundamentals, news, and signal alerts. Lightweight but packed with features.

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Lil Tay just made over $1 million on OnlyFans in three hours 🔞

She has 2.3 million followers on TikTok and had gone viral years ago as a child for her brash persona. She still looks like a minor, but she turned 18, which means she can now publish “content” on the 18+ platform.

😐 This is a perfect example of how the modern attention economy works. Build an audience as a child, then immediately monetize through sex appeal the next day after it's legal.

It's disturbing how normalized this has become, but big money attracts attention and makes her a role model for millions of other girls 💸