December kicked off with an unexpected crash that caught many off guard.
What's puzzling? No obvious triggers. Trump stayed quiet. No major FUD circulating. Whale wallets barely budged. The usual suspects were nowhere to be found.
So what actually tanked the market?
Some analysts point to overleveraged positions getting liquidated in a chain reaction. Others suggest it's classic end-of-month profit-taking amplified by thin liquidity. Could be a combination of factors invisible to surface-level observation—maybe hidden OTC deals, institutional rebalancing, or simply algorithmic trading gone wild.
The crypto market loves mysteries. This one's worth digging into.
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SurvivorshipBias
· 14h ago
There is no reason for it to fall, and that is the most terrifying thing.
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OnlyUpOnly
· 14h ago
Here we go again, it can fall without any obvious trigger? What happened to the promised liquidity, what happened to the institutions stabilizing the market? Laughing to death.
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MidnightGenesis
· 14h ago
On-chain data hasn't shown much movement, but the market data has taken a fall—based on past experience, this kind of "no story" decline is the most terrifying. What's interesting is that monitoring shows large investors haven't rug pulled, indicating they know something. Notably, the frequency of contract deployments suddenly surged late at night that day, as expected.
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BugBountyHunter
· 14h ago
Forget it, I just say I didn't understand who smashed it.
December kicked off with an unexpected crash that caught many off guard.
What's puzzling? No obvious triggers. Trump stayed quiet. No major FUD circulating. Whale wallets barely budged. The usual suspects were nowhere to be found.
So what actually tanked the market?
Some analysts point to overleveraged positions getting liquidated in a chain reaction. Others suggest it's classic end-of-month profit-taking amplified by thin liquidity. Could be a combination of factors invisible to surface-level observation—maybe hidden OTC deals, institutional rebalancing, or simply algorithmic trading gone wild.
The crypto market loves mysteries. This one's worth digging into.