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$BTC ¡Atención, comunidad de traders! Si algo nos ha enseñado la historia del mercado cripto, es que las palabras de Michael Saylor no son un juego. El CEO de MicroStrategy, un titán en el mundo Bitcoin, acaba de soltar una frase que resuena fuerte: "Estamos en un cripto invierno... pero será corto y el verano será glorioso."
​¿Qué significa esto para nosotros, los que estamos aquí para ganar?
Significa que no es momento de pánico, sino de oportunidad. Mientras algunos ven frío, nosotros vemos el terreno fértil para sembrar las semillas de nuestras próximas grandes ganancias. Saylor, con su visión alcista de Bitcoin, nos recuerda que estos "inviernos" son ciclos naturales, y que la primavera (y el verano) siempre llega con más fuerza.
​¿Por qué este es tu momento para la acción
​Visión a Largo Plazo: Saylor no es un especulador de un día. Su apuesta por Bitcoin es a largo plazo, basada en su convicción de que BTC es el futuro del dinero y la reserva de valor definitiva. Si él ve un "invierno corto", es porque sabe que la adopción institucional y la evolución tecnológica siguen su curso imparable.Zonas de Acumulación Estratégica: Históricamente, los períodos de "invierno" o consolidación son las mejores ventanas para los inversores inteligentes. ¿Recuerdas cuándo el Bitcoin estaba a $20k, a $10k o incluso a $3k? Quienes acumularon entonces, hoy están celebrando. Saylor nos está señalando dónde están esas "tierras" fértiles ahora mismo.​Bitcoin como Base Sólida: A pesar de la volatilidad a corto plazo, Bitcoin sigue siendo el rey. Sus fundamentales son cada vez más fuertes, y cada corrección es una prueba de fuego que lo hace más robusto.
​Nuestra Estrategia Inteligente: Compras Escalonaadas en BTC cerca de los $67,000
​Como traders profesionales, no nos dejamos llevar por el miedo. Escuchamos a los grandes y actuamos con cabeza fría. Nuestra estrategia para este "invierno corto" es clara:
​Identificar Zonas Clave: Saylor nos da una pista del sentimiento general, pero nosotros afinamos. Las áreas cercanas a los $67,000 para Bitcoin se perfilan como excelentes puntos de entrada para aquellos que buscan acumular con una perspectiva de crecimiento.Compras Escalonaadas: No todo de golpe. Divide tu capital. Haz compras progresivas a medida que el precio se mueva alrededor de esos niveles. Esto reduce el riesgo y te permite promediar un mejor precio de entrada.​Manejo del Riesgo: Siempre ten un plan. Define tu nivel de stop-loss y tu take-profit. En el trading, la emoción es nuestro peor enemigo; la estrategia es nuestra mejor amiga.
​Michael Saylor es claro: el sol volverá a brillar, y lo hará con más fuerza que nunca. Es hora de dejar de lado las dudas y comenzar a construir ese portafolio que te dará un "verano glorioso".
​¡No te quedes esperando a que el sol ya esté arriba! Prepárate ahora y sé parte de la élite que supo ver la oportunidad cuando otros solo veían el frío.
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While most people flock to scenic tourist spots to escape and unwind, I chose to take my work with me — laptop open, snow falling, deep into Plasma.

This wasn’t just about grinding through code. It was about understanding how blockchain infrastructure is evolving beneath the surface. Plasma isn’t just another project; it’s a fundamental layer focused on execution stability and predictable network behavior. In an industry often driven by hype and short-term narratives, mastering the fundamentals is what separates builders from spectators.

Snowfall has a way of teaching patience. Flake by flake, the landscape transforms. Similarly, real knowledge doesn’t arrive overnight — it accumulates through consistent effort, focus, and the discipline to keep learning even when no one is watching.

Tourist destinations are usually associated with leisure. But if you carry your purpose with you, even a mountain resort can become a productive workspace. Dedication isn’t about location — it’s about mindset.

Whether you’re deep into L2 research, execution clients, or scalability solutions, remember: the noise fades, but the infrastructure remains. Keep building. Keep learning.

🔗 @Plasma
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Dealing With Losses: From Hope to System
Have you ever watched a year of gains disappear in a week?
As we navigate the opening months of 2026, the market has issued a violent reality check. After the euphoria of 2025, a year that saw Bitcoin surge toward its record high of $126,000, the first quarter of this year has been a masterclass in structural exhaustion. We've entered a "liquidity desert" where every bounce is met with aggressive distribution. In early February alone, Bitcoin plunged toward $60,000 lows in brutal sessions (notably the flash crash around February 5–6), wiping billions in liquidations across exchanges and dragging the total crypto market cap down sharply from recent peaks toward the $2.3T zone amid ongoing volatility.
BTC liquidation Dec. - Feb. (coinglass)
Put this into human perspective: a trader who rode Bitcoin from $50k to $126k, turning $50,000 into $126,000, watched nearly half of that gain evaporate in 72 hours. Months of disciplined work undone in a single weekend.
Whether you are a seasoned professional who just gave back a year of gains or a newcomer who feels like they've walked into a buzzsaw, the pain is universal. We are all susceptible to the same psychological gravity. When you lose money, you aren't just losing capital; you are losing time, effort, and a piece of your future.
The Curse of Sisyphus
One of the greatest pains in life is watching months or years of work and struggles come undone all at once.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down the moment he reaches the top. There is something uniquely cruel about this punishment, something that cuts directly to the core of the human experience.
Trading has this same quality. Unlike most professions, where progress accumulates and past achievements remain secure trading offers no checkpoints. An entire career can be destroyed by one bad decision. You are not building a house brick by brick; you are a general managing a campaign where a single strategic failure can cost you the war.
Greek mythology(Geekz Merch)
The 2026 Lesson: Precision vs. Panic
When the boulder rolls back down, people respond in two ways. Look at the early February 2026 flash crash for the clearest evidence of this.
As the global macro environment shifted and Bitcoin tumbled from recent levels near $75k–$80k toward mid-$60,000s (and briefly below $61,000 in panic selling), some traders recognized the structural failure. They accepted the hit, closed their underwater positions, and moved to the sidelines to preserve their remaining "bullets."  They traded like machines : emotionless, systematic, following pre-determined rules even when it hurt.
Others, however, tried to revenge-trade the volatility. They saw their collateral losing value and, in a fit of panic, increased their leverage to "buy the dip" and lower their entry price. They tried to outrun a structural correction with hope. Because they couldn't emotionally confront the loss, they took on even more risk effectively "one-shotting" themselves (blowing up their entire account in a single desperate move) out of the market. They didn't just lose a trade; they lost their entire ability to participate in the eventually inevitable recovery.
The difference? The first group had a system. The second group had hope.
First Rule: Pay Your Biological Debt
Before we talk strategy, let's talk physiology. Here's one tactical insight you can implement today:
Step away from the screens for 24-48 hours after a catastrophic loss.
A major loss triggers a sympathetic nervous system hijack your brain floods with cortisol, which impairs risk assessment and makes you see phantom patterns in chaos. During the recent February volatility, the most successful traders weren't the ones staring at 1-minute candles. They were the ones who stepped away to pay their "biological debt."
If you don't sleep, hydrate, and move, you are making decisions with a brain that is functionally impaired. You wouldn't trade drunk; don't trade traumatized. This isn't motivation-speak, this is neuroscience. Your pre-frontal cortex (responsible for rational decision-making) is offline. You are operating on pure amygdala response.
Biological Debt and "Ghost Wealth"
So how do you get over a loss once it has happened?
Second, you need to fully identify with your new net worth. You cannot anchor to your old All-Time High. That old ATH is a ghost, a hallucination of money that no longer exists. To trade effectively today, you must treat your current balance as if you just deposited it for the first time. The market doesn't owe you a "recovery" to your previous balance.
This is the hardest psychological shift: your old net worth is not "temporarily gone", it's permanently gone. The sooner you accept this, the sooner you can trade with clarity instead of desperation.
The Precision of Recovery
Accept that you were not unlucky. This loss was an inevitability created by a weakness in your process. Treat the loss as "tuition" paid to the market. You were always going to learn this lesson; be grateful you learned it now instead of later, when the stakes were even higher.
Identify the failure precisely. For most, it is a combination of over-leveraging or failing to respect a stop-loss during a cascade. If you cannot recover from loss in a nuanced way, you become like a gradient descent algorithm with a learning rate that is too high. forever overshooting convergence and bouncing between the walls of your own ego, never settling into sustainable profitability.
The systematic trader asks: "What broke in my process?" 
The Sisyphus trader asks: "Why is the universe against me?"
One learns. One repeats.
The Re-Calibration: From Emotion to Structure
Allow yourself to fully grieve. Let the emotion out. But then, channel that pain into structure.
For example, when Napoleon lost a battle, he didn't spiral into despair, he immediately began rebuilding infrastructure. He famously noted that the first quality of a commander is a "cool head" the ability to receive news of a disaster without a change in heart rate. A loss is only fatal if it compromises your ability to fight the next battle.
You do not seek redemption; you do not seek revenge. You must become a machine. Every defeat you survive becomes a moat in your system, a hard-earned piece of wisdom that "tourists" do not possess.
Practical Steps to Rebuild:
1. Reset position sizing:
Drop leverage to 1–3x max (or go spot-only) until you string 10+ consistent green days.
Why this works: Small wins rebuild confidence and pattern recognition without risking another catastrophic loss. You're re-training your nervous system to associate trading with controlled outcomes.
2. Implement hard rules:
Auto-enforce stops, never move them mid-trade. Journal every loss with one question: "What broke in my process?" Why this works: Journaling converts emotional pain into data. Over time, you'll see patterns in your failures that are invisible in the moment.
3. Build a post-loss protocol:
Take 24–48 hours off screens after big hits, then paper trade the failed setup to rebuild confidence without risk. Why this works: You're creating a circuit-breaker between loss and reaction. Paper trading lets you "practice" the correct response without financial consequences.
4. Diversify emotional capital :
Allocate time to non-trading wins (gym, family, hobbies) so your identity isn't fully tied to PnL. Why this works: When your entire self-worth is tied to your trading balance, every loss becomes existential. External wins create emotional stability that improves trading performance.
The Path Forward
Losses like this are what build a trader. They happen to teach you something. The loss did not happen for no reason. Allow yourself to feel the pain, but channel the torment into ensuring it never happens again.
The traders who survive aren't the ones who never lose, they're the ones who lose, learn, and return with better systems. Once you find the correct orientation and your actions align with reality, compounding to wealth becomes inevitable.
You cannot control the market. You can only control your response to it.
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The cryptocurrency market, previously rocked by internal disasters such as the collapse of exchanges and investment bubbles, followed by the collapse of algorithmic stablecoins, is undergoing a fundamentally different type of correction in 2026.
Over the 17 years of its existence, Bitcoin has experienced several large-scale bear markets, resulting not only in price corrections but also in fundamental changes across the entire industry.
The nature of these shocks has evolved along with the market. Unlike earlier crises, today's crises no longer call the technology itself into question, but rather confirm its maturity, integrating Bitcoin ever more deeply into the global financial system.
The fall in the price of Bitcoin since the end of 2025 differs from previous ones in that there is no internal crisis in the crypto market. Experts increasingly cite the monetary policy of the US Federal Reserve and geopolitical tensions in the world as factors influencing the market.
Since 2014, Bitcoin has experienced several major crises. The most dramatic price crashes have usually coincided with specific shocks, ranging from the collapse of major exchanges and market bubbles to systemic failures in the industry and global macroeconomic shocks.
The 2014 crisis: Mt. Gox bankruptcy
In 2014, the crypto industry experienced its first systemic shock with the bankruptcy of Mt.Gox, the largest cryptocurrency exchange at the time. The platform lost 850,000 bitcoins as a result of a hack (more than $59 billion at the exchange rate at the beginning of February 2026). This undermined confidence not so much in blockchain technology as in the immature infrastructure surrounding it.
The price of bitcoin plummeted from around $1,160 to $150, losing more than 85%, and the bearish trend in the market lasted for about 14 months. This crisis forced the market to rethink the creation and development of crypto platforms, replacing amateur services and approaches with the first professional solutions for storage and trading. Exchanges began to implement stricter security procedures. Recovery took years, but it helped build a more solid foundation for future growth.
The first payments to affected exchange customers began only at the end of 2023. According to Arkham, as of February 8, there were 34,500 bitcoins worth nearly $2.5 billion remaining in the group of wallets controlled by Mt. Gox administrators.
The 2018 crisis: The ICO bubble
The bursting of the speculative bubble surrounding initial coin offerings (ICOs – similar to IPOs, but raising capital through the issuance of tokens) in 2018 became another systemic crisis. In 2017, projects raised millions of dollars through the issuance of tokens, often with nothing but an idea. At its peak in 2017, the price of Bitcoin reached a cycle high of $20,000, after which prices fell for about 12 months, with the cycle low reaching $3,100 and losses reaching 85%.
The main blow fell on altcoins (cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin), many of which depreciated by up to 99%. Most crypto projects at that time were unable to survive this period.
The result of the cycle was the necessary cleansing of the market of outright fraudsters who attracted millions in investments. The focus in the industry shifted from speculation to the development of working products. It was during the ICO bubble that the next big narrative emerged — decentralized finance (DeFi), which determined the growth of the next cycle.
Many leaders of the modern DeFi segment were launched at this time. For example, today's largest decentralized exchange, Uniswap, or the largest lending protocol, Aave, formerly known as ETHLend.
The 2022 crisis: The collapse of LUNA and FTX
In 2022, the crypto market experienced two major crises. In the spring of 2022, the market was shaken by the collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin UST and the associated Terra (LUNA) token. And in the fall, one of the largest crypto exchanges at the time, FTX, collapsed.
The collapse of the Terra ecosystem and its algorithmic stablecoin UST in May 2022 triggered a sharp decline in prices across the entire market. Over the course of about three months, the capitalization of the crypto market fell by hundreds of billions of dollars.
The peak price of Bitcoin in this cycle occurred in November 2021, long before the collapse of LUNA, at a level above $69,000. The cycle's low occurred approximately 12 months later, at a level of about $15,500, and was recorded in November 2022, at the time of the collapse of the FTX exchange.
That bear market had catastrophic consequences not only for crypto asset prices, but also for many organizations due to losses on LUNA and UST, with Arrows Capital, Celsius Network, Voyager Digital, and BlockFi going bankrupt. This collapse severely undermined confidence in algorithmic stablecoins and DeFi mechanisms offering unsustainably high returns of around 20% per annum.
The subsequent collapse of FTX led to an additional massive outflow of capital and increased skepticism among retail investors in 2022–2023. Unlike Mt.Gox, which was hacked from the outside, FTX collapsed due to internal abuses, with management using customer funds for their own needs and risky investments.
This resulted in global requirements for transparency, auditing, and proof of reserves. The crisis also accelerated regulatory pressure around the world, for example, the development of global rules for cryptocurrencies in Europe began, and dozens of lawsuits were filed by US regulators against crypto companies.
The 2026 Crisis: Trump and Macroeconomics
The current correction in 2026 is fundamentally different from previous ones and has not yet been accompanied by a systemic internal crisis. At the beginning of February, the peak of this cycle for Bitcoin was formed at $126,200 in October 2025. Since then, the price has fallen by more than 50%, dropping to $60,000 at one point.
Many experts believe that the current cycle is determined by external macroeconomic factors and marks not a cyclical decline, but a fundamental structural transformation of the entire market. For example, analysts at major market maker Wintermute have repeatedly pointed to institutional liquidity flows as the driving force behind Bitcoin's price movements in their reports.
Capital managers such as Grayscale and Bitwise have taken a similar position. Their position is based on the fact that this cycle has not seen the classic parabolic price growth that usually signals market overheating and precedes a deep correction. It is also noted that Bitcoin's movement is now driven by demand from institutional investors, rather than retail investors as before, and by a growing correlation with macroeconomic events.
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