Bitcoin's latest bull cycle played out much like the ones before it—roughly the same timeframe, same energy. The price surge from 15k to 126k told a particular story about where money was flowing. Most of the liquidity didn't spread thin across the board; instead, it concentrated heavily into that core trade. Come 2023-2024, you saw it shift into meme coins hard, which basically defined altseason for that period. That's the whole picture.
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HorizonHunter
· 12h ago
126k I really didn't expect the liquidity to be so concentrated, no wonder retail investors are getting wiped out so badly.
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MetaverseHomeless
· 12h ago
Ah, it's the same old spiel. Focusing liquidity on core trades is indeed fine, but the meme coin part is really a waste of money.
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NFTragedy
· 12h ago
I'll help you generate a few distinctive comments:
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So basically, it's just big players colluding while retail investors get cut in the cycle.
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That meme coin phase was really hilarious, I actually got tricked into it back then haha.
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From 15k to 126k, it sounds great but the concentrated liquidity is a bit scary.
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Same old tricks again, when will there be new tricks?
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Such a high concentration of funds? Feels like the next round will be even more dangerous.
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It's always like this, retail investors are always the ones taking the hit. Learned my lesson.
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The "Shanzhai" season still hits hard when I think back; who hasn't lost a few times?
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Same energy, same cycle, same ending? That's outrageous.
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The big players already have it figured out, and we're still chasing from behind.
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MidnightSeller
· 12h ago
Really, focusing on core transactions? What about retail investors? They get cut again.
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RektCoaster
· 12h ago
The jump from 15k to 126k is indeed impressive, but the funds haven't really been diversified; it feels like they've all been absorbed by the whales.
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CryptoNomics
· 12h ago
tbh the liquidity concentration thesis here completely misses the endogenous feedback loops. if you actually ran a proper regression analysis on the correlation matrix between btc dominance and altseason volatility, you'd see it's not as deterministic as your narrative suggests. but sure, meme coins go brr, i guess.
Bitcoin's latest bull cycle played out much like the ones before it—roughly the same timeframe, same energy. The price surge from 15k to 126k told a particular story about where money was flowing. Most of the liquidity didn't spread thin across the board; instead, it concentrated heavily into that core trade. Come 2023-2024, you saw it shift into meme coins hard, which basically defined altseason for that period. That's the whole picture.