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The largest arbitrage game in history is collapsing, which may be the true trigger for this round of big dump.



Today BTC fell to a low of 85,600 USD. 200,000 accounts across the network went directly to zero.

Everyone is confused: Is it the yen interest rate hike again?

The truth is hidden in a global arbitrage market worth 20 trillion dollars.

What exactly happened in the market on December 1st?

As the Asian session opens, the crypto market feels like it has been unplugged.

Bitcoin started to lose speed and plummet from the position of $95,000. Within just a few hours, the drop of several points sent away batch after batch of leveraged players. On-chain data shows that the amount of liquidations in contracts alone has surpassed a new daily high.

The source of all this points to the fluctuations in the yen exchange rate. When the yen quickly strengthened against the dollar, institutions that relied on borrowing yen to buy dollar assets for interest rate differentials began to panic. This strategy was essentially a money printer during the low-interest rate era, but now, with the change in the Bank of Japan's attitude, the arbitrage space has rapidly narrowed.

Funds flowed back to the yen, USD assets were sold off, and the crypto market, as a risk asset, naturally took the brunt.
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HalfBuddhaMoneyvip
· 20h ago
200,000 people drop to zero, this wave of yen is really amazing, when the arbitrage positions collapse, everything collapses.
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PretendingToReadDocsvip
· 20h ago
200,000 people drop to zero, this is why I don't play with leverage, bro. --- The recent move in the yen directly killed the arbitrage positions, the institutions must be panicking. --- 95k smashed down to 85k, I just want to know where those who borrowed yen are now. --- It's again a matter of the Exchange Rate, the crypto world fears this kind of systemic risk the most, and there's no escape. --- With 20 trillion in arbitrage positions collapsing, no wonder BTC plummeted so hard, this is not a normal adjustment. --- So when the Bank of Japan shifts its stance, global risk assets have to go down with it, and it's reasonable that encryption is hit first. --- Speaking of which, when will this large-scale arbitrage game finally disappear? It's the retail investors who get trapped.
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GateUser-cff9c776vip
· 20h ago
The 20 trillion arbitrage positions have collapsed, this is a true art installation, perfectly interpreting the philosophy of the Bear Market.
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OffchainOraclevip
· 20h ago
The $20 trillion arbitrage market has collapsed, and this time it truly is different; the yen, as the fuse, has directly detonated the entire market.
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LiquidityNinjavip
· 21h ago
200,000 people drop to zero? The collapse of arbitrage positions is the real domino effect, and this move on the yen has directly pierced through the entire system.
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