Bitcoin dumps, leverage pays the price.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-01-29 15:13
Bitcoin dumps, leverage pays the price.
$BTC slid to $86,300, and $120M in longs got wiped in just one hour.
This is what a leverage flush looks like. Fast, brutal, emotionless. One push down and the dominoes fall — forced selling, liquidations, panic clicks.
Nothing exotic here. No black swan. Just too many traders leaning the same way with 10–20x leverage, thinking the market owed them a bounce. It never does.
I always say this: price doesn’t fall because news is bad. It falls because positioning is wrong. And right now, the market is still cleansing itself. Painful, yes. Necessary, also yes.
If you’re overleveraged, this feels like the end of the world.
If you’re patient and underexposed, it feels like noise — loud noise, but noise.
Crypto doesn’t ask for belief. It tests discipline. Respire.
#bitcoin #BTC #crypto #liquidations #volatility #markets #CryptoFriture
$BTC slid to $86,300, and $120M in longs got wiped in just one hour.
This is what a leverage flush looks like. Fast, brutal, emotionless. One push down and the dominoes fall — forced selling, liquidations, panic clicks.
Nothing exotic here. No black swan. Just too many traders leaning the same way with 10–20x leverage, thinking the market owed them a bounce. It never does.
I always say this: price doesn’t fall because news is bad. It falls because positioning is wrong. And right now, the market is still cleansing itself. Painful, yes. Necessary, also yes.
If you’re overleveraged, this feels like the end of the world.
If you’re patient and underexposed, it feels like noise — loud noise, but noise.
Crypto doesn’t ask for belief. It tests discipline. Respire.
#bitcoin #BTC #crypto #liquidations #volatility #markets #CryptoFriture
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