Everyone's Blaming Trump for the Crypto Crash. They're Missing the Real Story.
Bitcoin at $90,916. Ethereum at $3,125. Over $260 million in liquidations. The market just shed $100 billion and every headline is screaming the same thing: Greenland tensions, geopolitical chaos, run for the hills.
But here's what they're not telling you.
I've been digging into the actual money flows, and there's a pattern here that Wall Street hoped you wouldn't notice. Remember early 2025 when Trump threatened China tariffs and crypto crashed 15%? Everyone panicked. Then three weeks later, markets recovered and made new highs.
We're watching the exact same movie play out right now. Same script, different stage.
But there's something else happening beneath the surface—something that explains why the dump happened NOW and not when the Greenland news first broke days ago. It has to do with institutional tax-loss harvesting cycles that just completed in mid-January. The timing isn't coincidence.
While retail traders panic over headlines, institutions just finished their annual rebalancing game. They sold in December for tax write-offs, bought back in early January (pushing ETH from $3,100 to $3,367), and now that buying support is gone.
Add in MLK Day liquidity gaps, technical resistance failures, and regulatory delays, and you get a perfect storm that has nothing to do with Greenland.
The 4-hour Stochastic just hit 7/9—extreme oversold levels that historically don't last long. Ethereum staking hit a 30-month high at 36.1 million ETH. Long-term holders aren't selling; they're accumulating.
I broke down the full analysis—three scenarios, probability breakdowns, exact trade setups, and why this looks identical to the 2025 tariff crash that recovered in weeks.
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Quick levels:
ETH support: $3,100 | BTC support: $88,000
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