The anatomy of today's move, visible on the 2H chart:

Price reclaims $72K. New shorts enter. Funding rate drops negative. Open interest climbs while price rises. That combination has one outcome.

$130 million in short liquidations in two hours. The stops became the fuel.

Rising OI with negative funding during an uptrend is one of the clearest short-squeeze setups in derivatives. It means the marginal positioning is fighting the direction.

But here is the reframe: each squeeze consumes the fuel that powered it. As price approaches $80K, the shorts thin out and the structural sellers begin to appear. The easy part of this move may already be behind us.