Because 50% is selling (OGs traumatized by 2021, technical investors looking at RSI, 4y cycle fans expecting a bear 2y post halving) while the other 50% is buying (fundamental investors, tradfi, banks).
We‘re getting a bull market that is pumping all of my altcoin bags for around 6 months and and then destroying them for around every 6 months again, depending on Bitcoin going up 30% or down.
It will probably continue to be like this forever and has pretty much also always been like this.
This is the most profitable strategy for whales who are controlling the market.
This is just my personal estimation from what I can see, up to you how you play it, NFA, DYOR.
quite literally the only things, that are not down over any reasonable timeframe is BTC and ETH, and ETH barely there.
all top 10 cryptos are down bad always
all those raising 100s of billions in foundations, go to zero
all the best revenue producing, good product backed altcoins, literally with 10s of billions in TVL, are in the gutter
people investing in all sorts of equity layers of successful protocols, all in the gutter
people speculating on memecoins, are shot in the dead immediately
people speculating on NFTs, all murdered and floor wiped and funerals forgotten
the stock market has a decent bid for everything, at all times, but nothing in this space does, even genuine revenue producing and sharing projects
how has this place become such a cancer its insane
you cannot, absolutely cannot anymore in sound mind, recommend crypto to anyone, you will be doing them a disservice
like genuinely, i tell people i care about to never touch this market
quite literally not even BTC, look at that piss poor performance, you lose 40% of your position in a month, while stocks are hitting all time highs, while gold and silver hit all time highs, while inflation is soaring
quite literally treasury bills outperformed BTC and the entirety of crypto in the year 2025
shit if you stashes CASH in your fucking mattress, YOU DID BETTER THAN ANYONE HOLDING CRYPTO
there are only so many years left where you can even make wealth, before the world absolutley collapses, and crypto has done nothing but detriment everyone in these pivotal years
the craziest part is that there is actually so much fundamental value in this industry, yet all it seems to do is value destruction $BTC $ETH