the 90k year-end call is doing a lot of heavy lifting
10x's markus thielen says bitcoin gets to 90,000 by year-end spot $BTC is 75,891 right now, down 1.25% on the day
blackrock's ibit lost 405.3 million on monday biggest exit since june
my read: direction okay, timing is the problem etfs were the bid all year, this week they are the ask 90k needs fresh spot demand, not another analyst note
binance pulled in $2.3b of net deposits in 24 hours
after a $6.3b hack and one day of heavy outflows the queue flipped the other way
my take: this is the whole cex trade in one chart people shout not your keys while the hack is live then send coins back once withdrawals reopen because the depth only exists there
south korea is already pushing exchanges past 80% cold storage tighter rules and fresh deposits at the same time that is not a contradiction, that is how this market actually behaves
watch the second withdrawal phase, not the outrage
blackrock just had its worst bitcoin etf day since june
ibit bled $405.3m on monday biggest single-day outflow since june and it dragged the whole complex down with it us spot bitcoin funds opened november with nearly $399 million in net outflows
$BTC is at 76,670, down 1.98% price has been following the etf tape all year
my read: flows are the tell, not the headlines when ibit turns green again the bid comes back fast
7,499 btc just walked out of binance's safu wallet
that is the insurance fund the one built for exactly this kind of day it now holds about 7,500 btc with no timeline for refilling it
chainalysis says the crew behind the $6.3 billion hack has started swapping stolen solana tokens for bitcoin gate froze two linked accounts
pyongyang denies the fbi attribution and blames the us instead
my read: the theft is priced in now, the trust damage is not south korea is already pushing exchanges past 80% cold storage $BTC 76630 and $SOL 91.74, both red
chainlink is the weakest major on the board right now
$LINK at 11.28, down 2.77% while $BTC only gave back 0.37%
that gap is the whole story
when btc bleeds a little and link bleeds harder it is not macro it is positioning oracle bids get pulled first in a risk-off tape, every time
my take: nothing in the thesis is broken, the oracle story has not changed but until btc stops leaking, link keeps trading like high beta and not like a hedge
watch 11.28 on a daily close lose it and the next leg is downside discovery reclaim it and today was just a flush