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THIS IS WHY BITCOIN DUMPED NON STOP FROM $126,000 TO $60,000. $BTC
Bitcoin has now crashed -53% in just 120 days without any major negative news or event and this is not normal.
Macro pressure plays a role, but it’s not the main reason Bitcoin keeps dumping. The real driver is something much bigger that most people aren’t talking about yet.
Bitcoin’s original valuation model was built on the idea that supply is fixed at 21 million coins and that price moves based on real buying and selling of those coins. In the early cycles, this was mostly true. But today, that structure has changed.
A large share of Bitcoin trading activity now happens through synthetic markets rather than spot markets.
This includes:
• Futures contracts
• Perpetual swaps
• Options markets
• ETFs
• Prime broker lending
• Wrapped BTC
• Structured products
All of these allow exposure to Bitcoin’s price without requiring actual Bitcoin to move on chain. This changes how price is discovered because now selling pressure can come from derivative positioning rather than real holders selling coins.
For example:
If institutions open large short positions in futures markets, price can fall even if no spot Bitcoin is sold.
If leveraged long traders get liquidated, forced selling happens through derivatives, accelerating downside moves. This creates cascade effects where liquidations drive price, not spot supply.
That is why recent sell offs look very structured. You see long liquidation waves, funding flips negative, open interest collapses, all signs that derivatives positioning is driving the move.
So while Bitcoin’s hard cap has not changed, the effective tradable supply influencing price has expanded through synthetic exposure.
Price today reacts to leverage, hedging flows, and positioning, not just spot demand.
Adding to this, there are other factors too driving the current dump.
GLOBAL ASSET SELL-OFF
Right now, selling is not isolated to crypto. Stocks are declining. Gold and silver have seen volatility. Risk assets across markets are correcting.
When global markets move into risk-off mode, capital exits high-risk assets first and crypto sits at the far end of the risk curve. So Bitcoin reacts more aggressively to global sell offs.
MACRO UNCERTAINTY & GEOPOLITICAL RISK
Tensions around global conflicts, especially U.S.–Iran developments, are creating uncertainty.
Whenever geopolitical risk rises, supply chain risks increase, and markets shift toward defensive positioning. That environment is not supportive for risk assets.
FED LIQUIDITY EXPECTATIONS
Markets had been pricing a more dovish liquidity backdrop. But expectations around future policy leadership and liquidity stance have shifted.
If investors believe future Fed policy will be tighter on liquidity even if rates eventually fall, risk assets reprice lower.
ECONOMIC DATA WEAKNESS
Recent economic indicators job market trends, housing demand, credit stress are pointing toward slowing growth conditions. When recession fears rise, markets derisk.
Crypto, being the most volatile asset class, sees outsized downside during those transitions.
STRUCTURED SELLING VS CAPITULATION
Another important observation:
This sell off does not look like panic capitulation. It looks structured.
Consecutive red candles, controlled downside moves, and derivative driven liquidations suggest large entities reducing exposure, not retail panic selling.
When institutional positioning unwinds, it suppresses bounce attempts because dip buyers wait for stability before re-entering.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
It is a combination of:
• Derivatives driven price discovery
• Synthetic supply exposure
• Global risk-off flows
• Liquidity expectation shifts
• Geopolitical uncertainty
• Weak macro data
• Institutional positioning unwind
Until these pressures stabilize, relief rallies can happen, but sustained upside becomes harder.$LA

A viral post from X analyst NoLimit is the one most crypto traders and investors should pay attention to. And, it’s not about price targets, halvings, or whether Bitcoin hits $200K next cycle.
Instead, it’s about something far more uncomfortable: the idea that Bitcoin’s scarcity narrative is being quietly undermined by Wall Street.
The tweet, which has now passed 1.3 million views, argues that Bitcoin’s biggest threat is the financial system wrapping Bitcoin into layers of paper claims, derivatives, and synthetic exposure until “21 million” stops mattering in practice.
And honestly? The concern deserves attention.
The Core Claim: Bitcoin Is Being “Fractionalized”
NoLimit’s main point is simple but provocative: Bitcoin may have a hard cap on-chain, but off-chain markets are creating something that looks a lot like an elastic supply.
In the old days, owning Bitcoin meant holding keys. One coin was one coin.
Today, Bitcoin exists inside a much larger financial machine (ETFs, futures, lending desks, perpetual swaps, structured products, wrapped tokens) all of which allow multiple entities to gain exposure to the same underlying BTC without ever touching the actual asset.
NoLimit describes this as a “paper Bitcoin multiplier,” where one real coin can support several layers of claims.
That framing is aggressive, but it’s not totally wrong.
How Wall Street Changes the Game
Bitcoin maxis love to talk about supply and demand as if the market is still purely spot-driven.
But since the rise of institutional products, Bitcoin has started behaving more like a macro financial instrument than a grassroots bearer asset.
When ETFs custody massive amounts of BTC, market makers hedge using futures. Traders pile into leveraged perps. Banks package structured notes. DeFi protocols tokenize wrapped versions. The same underlying Bitcoin becomes the base for multiple exposures.
This doesn’t change Bitcoin’s protocol rules, but it does change market mechanics.
Bitcoin has a huge problem that nobody talks about.Is everyone ignoring it on purpose? Possibly.But bitcoin’s fundamental thesis has changed drastically.The hard truth? 21 million is no longer the maximum supply.I’ve been in this game since the Mt. Gox days.We used to…
— NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) February 6, 2026
And in the short term, mechanics matter more than ideology.
Does This “Destroy Scarcity”?
Here’s where my take diverges slightly from NoLimit’s tone.
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap is still real. The blockchain doesn’t care about derivatives.
But what does happen is that scarcity becomes less immediate in price discovery when the majority of trading volume happens through cash-settled instruments rather than spot buying.
Derivatives can amplify rallies, but they can also cap them through hedging and liquidation cascades. The market becomes more reflexive, more engineered, and less purely driven by organic demand.
This is exactly what happened with gold after it became financialized in the late 20th century: massive paper markets formed on top of a scarce underlying asset.
Gold became harder for scarcity alone to dictate price in the short run.
Bitcoin could be heading down a similar path.
Read also: What Is Really Driving Gold Price Higher Again? Expert Breaks It Down
The Self-Custody Argument
NoLimit ends with the only “solution” he sees: take coins off exchanges and into self-custody.
That’s classic Bitcoiner logic, and it’s valid in principle.
The more BTC sits in custodial systems (whether exchanges or ETF vaults) the more it becomes part of a tradfi balance-sheet ecosystem rather than a censorship-resistant asset held by individuals.
Self-custody doesn’t eliminate derivatives, but it does reduce rehypothecation risk and limits how much Bitcoin can be used as collateral inside opaque financial plumbing.
Read also: XRP Panic Sell-Off Backfires: Whales Bought the Dip in Record Size
The Bigger Picture: Financialization Was Always Coming
The truth is, this isn’t some conspiracy where Wall Street is “printing fake Bitcoin.”
It’s simply what Wall Street does to every valuable asset: it monetizes it, layers it, leverages it, and turns it into a fee-generating machine.
Bitcoin was never going to remain a pure peer-to-peer experiment once it became a trillion-dollar macro trade.
The maxis may not like it, but institutionalization is not optional anymore.
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