I will keep writing until this wave of emotions is exhausted.
I know that now is not a suitable time to talk about ideals, distant places, or 'long-termism.'
The current market is more like a A machine that continuously consumes emotions.
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Many people are no longer angry, nor are they panicking. They are just: • Too lazy to watch the market • Too lazy to analyze • Too lazy to listen to any more 'opinions'
This is not calm; it is exhaustion after being consumed.
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I choose to write during this phase, not because I am overly optimistic, But because I am very clear about one thing:
The truly important moments are never the noisiest times.
ETH has dropped below 1900 again, there's really not much to discuss.
ETH has dropped below 1900 again. In the square, on X... there's a lot of discussion: “What's different this time when it drops below 1900 compared to before?”
Looking at these issues, I suddenly realized one thing: prices are changing, time is passing, but the way people struggle seems to never change.
It's not an expert perspective, just a very ordinary participant's thought: spot position, enter the market first and then talk. Think from a different angle – what if it doesn't drop? What if it rebounds by 10% first?
Last year, the money earned from playing ETH with U-based assets was used to buy 15 when it dropped from $BNB to 1100, which was then used for coin-based contracts. The drop was too severe, and I had to open a short position to hedge against the floating loss. I always felt that it had dropped enough, so I closed the short position and patiently waited, but it pulled down another waterfall. Opening, closing, and waiting... finally, I reached the stop-loss step to protect my life. After the stop-loss, the result was still 15 BNB, and the profits from the short position all went into the stop-loss. Early February was an unforgettable month 🥹🥹 #BNB #BNB走势
🚨Last week, the OG whale that completely liquidated with a loss of 250 million USD seems to have started buying ETH again. Just now, he withdrew 168 million USD worth of 80,000 from Binance #以太坊L2如何发展? #易理华旗下TrendResearch减仓
Is ETH finished? No, this is just the high-leverage longs starting to pay tuition.
If you think that only retail investors are panicking right now, you might not have seen this news. By the end of 2025, Yi Li Hua's institution had built over $1 billion in leveraged long positions on Aave, at one point being one of the largest ETH longs on-chain. And the current situation is: • Floating loss of $562 million • Has already sold over $367 million in ETH on Binance • If ETH reaches $1,800, this $1 billion position will be liquidated. I don't want to pretend to be calm; to be honest, this news is not good for the longs.
But I want to make a more straightforward judgment:
The obsession with 80% drawdown may be the biggest trap of this round.
A question that has been repeatedly discussed recently: Will Bitcoin experience another 80% deep drawdown? I went through the historical data again and recorded several objective facts.
In the past four complete bull and bear cycles, Bitcoin's maximum drawdowns were: • 2011: Approximately -94% • 2013: Approximately -87% • 2017: Approximately -84% • 2021: Approximately -77%
A clear change is: the extreme drawdown is gradually converging.
This does not mean 'it won't drop again', Instead, the market structure itself is changing. First, the holding structure is changing.
What reassures me the most right now is not the price, but that the market has started to use 'slowly wearing people down' instead of 'scaring people away directly'. #特朗普称坚定支持加密货币 #ETH走势分析 #ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The bear market is responsible for 'filtering people', the bull market is responsible for 'giving rewards' Only those who survive are qualified to discuss the size of the increase. #特朗普称坚定支持加密货币 #Strategy增持比特币
From a probabilistic perspective, the risk compensation that can be obtained by continuing to decline is no longer symmetrical. In this range, I would rather participate first than wait for a perfect answer. #V神卖币 #ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 $ETH
Ethereum has fallen below 2200; it's not panic, it's dignity being worn away little by little.
I have discovered something very cruel. Ethereum has fallen to this point, and very few people are criticizing it now.
No more roaring, no more 'buying the dip to change fate', and even panic has become very restrained.
There is only one thing left to say: just wait a little longer.
But you can tell just by looking at the chart— Prices have continuously fallen below all key moving averages, and the increase in trading volume is not due to funds entering the market, but rather longs being forced to exit.
This is not a washout. This is faith being peeled away layer by layer.
# The long-short ratio still leans towards long; what does this indicate? This shows that many people are not bullish but simply unable to exit.
They are not trading; they are waiting for the 'market to give an explanation'.
In this round of bear market, many people were not crushed by the market, but by 'crypto becoming unrecognizable as crypto.'
I saw a statement these past two days that resonated with me deeply. The co-founder of Gnosis said:
The crypto industry is becoming a 'backend upgrade tool' for traditional finance.
To be honest, this statement hurts more than any market crash.
Did we really come in early just to make a bit more money? Crypto was very strange back then.
So strange that no one understands, so strange that you get laughed at, so strange that when you mention Web3, you seem like an outsider. But it was that sense of 'strangeness' that first made people start to doubt: • Does money always have to be decided by banks? • Does the platform always have to take a cut, review, and ban accounts?
ETFs are selling, miners are turning to AI, leverage is being liquidated: this week is very unusual
This could be the most intense and 'real' week in the crypto market in recent years.
600 billion dollars in market value has been wiped out. The decline of Bitcoin and Ethereum can no longer be explained by a single negative factor.
ETFs are selling. Leverage was liquidated in batches within 5 minutes. Miners are starting to shift their computing power to AI. Even the price range long seen as a 'symbol of safety margin' has been breached.
These events are not uncommon when they happen individually. But when they occur simultaneously, the market discussion isn't just about ups and downs.
Many people call this panic. But I prefer to understand it as: a week where the expected system was recalculated.