FUD

TvAGhost

Theres even bots or AI posting insane FUD every day it's kind of giving desperation vibes. Like why do they want us selling so badly.

Chilln665

Not pacification. Just instilling some more rational thinking as influencers and market makers spread FUD

Substantial_Ad_2116

The 'but the only value is scarcity' FUD is wild. There are so many valuable use-cases.

global_hodl

If you had a quantum computer that could crack bitcoin what would you attack first - banks or bitcoin. People like to spread FUD to get attention when the price action is to the downside. I wouldn’t trust what Willy Woo has to say

372xpg

They wrote themselves a multibillion dollar cheque that users would pay for, while other cryptocurrency did not. You're fine with that great, I'm not, AND that's my threshold where I call a crypto a shitcoin. You can stop with the FUD and cryptobro lingo. I will continue to stay away from coins I don't like the structure of. You could maybe not take it so personally? It's not your coin, you have nothing to do with it. You made a ton of money that's great, and if you believe the founders deserve billions of dollars then great. I do not. I'm sorry you feel me calling it a shitcoin might hurt your profits, but it is to me garbage that was invented to make it's creators rich. They specifically marketed it towards institutions unlike real crypto which is intended to be outside of institutions and institutional control.

R4ID

>Ok so if they didn't retain 20 billion personally and 80 billion xrp to run the company They didnt own the 80 billion and never have. you started off lying with "the creators gave themselves half of the coins at inception" now after I hand you the answer on a silver platter knowing ur going to create FUD with it and here you come back with FUD just like I said you would. Again I asked you to read the founders agreement, and you claimed you did yet you still think they kept the 80 billion for themselves, which tells me you didnt actually read it or at least understand it. >with various contracts and escrows then please explain what they did do rather than just saying I don't know. The Time Locked escrows didnt exist on their funds until Dec 2017, a full 5 years later. The timelocked feature for the XRPL didnt begin development until March-May of 2016 IIRC (its somewhere around there that their fund intentions and feature development began I dont have time to dig up the old announcement im sure its still able to be searched on google if you want to read it) >I know some things have changed and I can't be assed to follow a shitcoin to find out what has changed but that was the original setup. You came here as a dishonest participant in discussion to spread FUD, you have only continued to do so even when handed the answer on a silver platter. Stop crying wolf when people dont engage with you on your terms when ur showing you're not here to discuss in good faith. you keep calling it a shitcoin yet you dont know anything about it apparently. The hubris or stupidity to do so is paradoxical >An escrow that limits the timing of release of coins in their control doesn't change the fact that they are in their control. They aren't in the founders control, and prior to Dec 2017, there were no escrows. Prior to the Dec 2017 escrows the company could of sold any amount at any time, they chose to lock their own funds up in good faith. They posted ther intentions to do so publicly in their quarterly reports for almost a full year prior to doing the move(again I could go dig up those reports but you're not here to discuss in good faith so I wont bother) The founders never had control over the 80 billion XRP. in fact technically you had just as much control as them over the funds. The private key to the genesis wallet is in the public code base, anyone could of taken any amount that they wanted. it was a 100% premine. At the time many famous people took from the genesis wallet, (ex Kraken CEO Jesse, Roger Ver) to name a few. Not only that but they used a very well known private key for the genesis wallet. https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/blob/ffd453f7dd091b0499fd6ab964880c8268deead4/src/ripple/app/misc/NetworkOPs.cpp#L852-L854 The crypto community from 2012 was tiny, like I mean not even a fraction of a fraction of what it is today. It was also A very different mindset because at the time Opencoin(later Ripple) was simply trying to Solve the doublespend problem without mining. They were working/testing to create a new consensus method. They then later gave the XRP that they got away for free to anyone on the forums with an account. I'm pretty sure if you google "BTCtalk forum ripple giveaway" you'll still find their old post where they gave it away to everyone on that forum that had an account registered prior to the announcement. You can also find XRP's early development on that same forum by Jed by googling "bitcoin without mining, BTC talk forum" which was happening in 2011 IIRC. >Do you dispute that they retained a massive amount of the coins in circulation? 20% split between 4 founders who put in all the work, development, time and resources doesn't seem "massive" to me because at the time it was worth 0$. For you as someone who took no part in development, funds, time or resources to criticize their decision for their project is actually insane. Especially if you look at how much they hold today. Like the "founders took half the supply" is such a dead issue in today's world. Jeds wallet is empty (google XRPL tacostand wallet) David took nothing from initial distribution (because he feared the US Gov wouldnt be happy about them "making currencies") so there's half the founders instantly not being a factor in ur "issue" Britto took 2% 2012, and who knows how much he has sold since then. and Larson took the rest. and he as a bunch still but again, he put in the most time, resources, effort, funding etc. Should the founders of something not receive the greatest benefit?

Fit_Economics2585

imagine telling someone in 2021 that "he fell for the epstein FUD" will be a real thing

JeremyLinForever

Willy Woo is a trader, not a HODLer. He will spread FUD to close his short position on a profit if he needs to.

zeeshiscanning

Just another bear market FUD. Stay humble, stack sats 🫡

R4ID

> Oh sorry, I made the mistake and must have gotten it's coin cap mistaken with another garbage coin. "another garbage coin" lol >However it stands the creators gave themselves half of the coins at inception and strangely people like you that read what I read still bought in. >Do better You actually have this incorrect as well. I dont want to help you create more FUD because you very clearly dont know what you're talking about once again but the creators of XRP did not give themselves 50% of supply. You REALLY REALLY need to learn to at least attempt to learn the topic before posting nonsense. if you're confused, go ahead and google "XRP founders agreement . pdf" Initial distribution is and has been public the entire time.

Cautious-Lecture-858

He started calling for the apocalypse right after the GFC. It’s been 15 years of constant FUD while he makes billions off rising stock prices and selling books saying stocks are gonna tank.

hindermore

Let the bots FUD. Some of us would love to see 40k.

Substantial_Ad_2116

The FUD is failing.  Adoption is beginning to accelerate. 

TheresNoSecondBest

HODL & DCA is what always worked for me. Reading a good, usually Bitcoin related book, helps with the FUD.

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Richard-Turd

I’m buying because crypto FUD is and has been sub 10. I’ll stop buying when it’s back in the green.

No-Masterpiece2246

The scaling FUD never ends. As if BTC ever scaled? XMR current;y has 200x the capacity of BTC. FCMP can reduce the capacity but it'll still be 50x that of BTC.

DerrickRoseTackoFell

Thoughts on the FUD surrounding Epstein’s link to bitcoin?

Constant-Cap-22

I personally think the jpeg nfts were a grift from those who don’t want real use nfts to be mainstream. You know…the same people who beg you to sell your BTC? No way they would create FUD tho

Ge_Yo

I wouldn’t call it FUD when major researchers and industry teams are openly discussing it.

champing_at_the_bit

FUD

ThreeTonChonker

There’s just a team of bots that follow these Saylor posts with the dumbest fucking FUD

IllllIIlIllIllllIlll

It looks pretty good to me. Apparently, people are shitting their pants even though nothing nearly as bad as the MtGox collapse has happened. That would mean it's all just extreme FUD, and it could go back up just as fast as it went down.

Spaceseeds

So why are you here then besides to spread FUD? Besides od course your mom's failure to abort her mistake

GaRGa77

FUD me more

BoshansStudios

It's almost like we're currently in a downtrend where maximum FUD occurs.

ConcernSubject9072

It ain't a scam. It's one of the most popular crypto casinos out there. FUD makes always things more interesting.

eupherein

Joined this sub in 17 and it is actually insane how common the trend is. FUD posts by buttcoiners and the clear bought the top newcomers when price takes the expected correction after a halving, and all those with conviction drop out for a bit. Then price goes back up after a halving and liquidity shortage from miners, then the bought the top shillers pop back in and buttcoiners swing back over to their sub. Without fail every single time

EazeeP

FUD

EarningsPal

Same old FUD. Not even entertaining anymore. Not even creative.

AcostaJA

FUD, next China bans Bitcoin, next quantum... C'mon 4yr cycles BS,

gorillalifter47

The FUD argument to what you are saying is that a bunch of degen gamblers are buying and selling $7.5 billion among themselves does not constitute a use case.

MaximumStudent1839

It signals small peepee energy for alt bagholders to FUD ETH on “value accrual”. ETH provides an example of a smart contract chain can aim to turn its native token into a SoV. That possibility is the source of speculation energy props up your ghost chains’ tokens to be not at zero atm.

OpticallyMosache

The FUD echo chamber is getting pretty strong. I think this is the most negative and uncertain BTC has ever been in the public forum. That's always been a good sign in the past. Probably going to get worse before it gets better. If you're using money you can afford to lose, this may be the highest percentage chance of getting the upside of a major asymmetrical risk.

Life-Republic2311

It’s the same people that will buy again as soon as the FUD dissipates.. I’m not buying trash.. I mean dollars with BTC 💎

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Sea-Imagination-9411

I've been working at the crossroads of traditional finance and the crypto industry for my entire career. Personally, I am a bitcoin maximalist in terms of what I own despite some of the other coins having genuine utility. It is a little religion like because I kid you not there is some serious FUD in bitcoin downturns and usually the people who believe in bitcoins value proposition are the ones continuing to DCA or buy in when the FOMO is not at all time highs. The cycle sort of self-repeats and some people get used to the volatility and hold true for the long haul and some people get washed out. I've bought bitcoin at 3k before so even though bitcoin just fell 50% I've made so much freaking money off this I dont even care. I think bitcoin fixes a broken monetary system and I'm literally an institutional FX (fiat) trader.

Rocko210

I sure hope so. I can’t wait to keep buying at a discount over this FUD.

Coreantes

I mean, this is a bit of FUD, in my view. They don't. Also, they law, which INCLUDES crypto, but actually exists to redesign the way they tax ALL assets you hold, is a complete package where this is a part of. Additionally, the reason they are going to sign is because the current system is flawed in many ways and not future proof in the slightest. Therefore, which is obviously never mentioned, all parties in the Netherlands ARE going to sign, but say the DON'T WANT TO, but have no choice. They accept this as an intermediate solution. Furthermore, this is future law and new laws are, from what I've read, already in the works. This law in it's current form is already, and will create more backlash that in the long term, this is absolutely going to change. Again, this post is not wrong, but it's looking at a small detail over something that's been in the works for a very long time and just includes crypto. It's not aimed AT crypto.

Ok_Specialist1911

100% agree. It is on sale, tons of FUD & fear, good time to add. We may not have seen the bottom, still not enough tears and rage quitting.

Dangerous-Meal8303

FUD

Dangerous-Meal8303

FUD is a funny sounding word

Qutrit

There’s a lot of FUD with how quantum computers can attack btc. You would need Large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of running Shor’s algorithm fast enough to attack ECDSA in real time… We are very far from that. You need millions of physical qubits, error correction overheads of several orders of magnitude and long long coherent runtimes… none of this is “next decade” tech by any serious hardware roadmap. There’s a huge hype with quantum computing at the moment mostly based on the huge overselling in the field (I can tell you first hand that there’s very little honesty currently in the sector). If we develop scalable fault tolerant quantum computers that can run long enough, if ever, during that time, Bitcoin can migrate to lattice-based signatures (Dilithium style), or Hash-based signatures (XMSS / SPHINCS+) or quantum hardened Schnorr-style constructions with PQ replacements. Making Bitcoin quantum proof is orders of magnitude easier than developing a working scalable fault tolerant quantum computers. The hard part is getting the consensus to make a change and the coordination, not cryptography. Also, funds that never reveal their public key can remain safe until migration so I think that we are pretty safe from quantum computing risk, if it is ever a thing which is far from clear. Of course that doesn’t mean that speculators or those who don’t really know much about quantum computing may dump based on unfounded fear, and that’s a very real danger itself but fundamentally not really a risk that can take Bitcoin to zero.

Mantis-Prawn

They are just spreading FUD to suppress the price. Bitcoin's intrinsic value is doing great, already for 17+ years. It is a truly unique asset.

seambizzle1

I mean I listen to every podcast he’s on He and I think alike when it comes to bitcoin Bitcoin is proof of work. Not proof of stake. Him owning 3 million BTC is the same as you owning 3 million satoshi. He has no more say than any of us. Strategy has no intention to sell their bitcoin. That Bitcoin will never see the open market, this is good for price and value. It’s simple supply and demand. And if need be Bitcoin can be more divisible than it already is. There’s no risk for someone like Saylor buying and holding bitcoin. Stop spreading FUD

Substantial_Ad_2116

He's also said bitcoin would have to stay under $8k usd for longer than a cycle for then to have interest payment issues. Idk why people are still betting against him. FUD works every cycle lmao

TheresNoSecondBest

This is just a recycled FUD, we keep hearing for over a decade. Nothing new. >Quantum computing could crack bitcoins encryption. Bitcoin is a piece of software. Once the QC became a reality, we'll upgrade it like the world will have to upgrade EVERYTHING ELSE. >Mining centralization is real and getting worse with the crash. It isn't. Thousands of miners in each pool says a different story. I know, I'm one of them. >Regulation is tightening globally. The regulation used to be much more hostile towards Bitcoin. Many of politicians already realized they can't fight it. The other will eventually learn.

Scared_Good1766

Right now the news around crypto is all panicky and bad, but there is still plenty of talk about it. I feel like there’s not really a way for it to quickly take off (aside from short term short squeeze pumps) and that we need for it to stop being talked about and ‘die down’ again in the news cycles, get a good reset in perceptions so that a new catalyst will be ‘unopposed’ whereas a positive single catalyst right now would likely just get buried in all the FUD

ElderMight

>It can all reverse when institutions sell and never come back again. That's true of literally every market. If your entire bear case is “demand might go away someday,” then you don’t have a Bitcoin-specific argument at all. If you can come up with actual reasons for demand dropping that are not typical FUD and not already been debunked for years, that would be worth discussing.

northcasewhite

I have been here since 2013. I feel more hope now than in previous bear markets. Even the Epstein FUD is a positive. It is positive for alts. As is core vs knots. It takes time for these narratives to bubble up.

Robert99010

True. While macro liquidity and rate cuts are the mathematical triggers, only **sustained price action** clears radioactive FUD. Historically, people ignore 'drama' once the uptrend becomes undeniable. The reset button is usually just **boring, steady growth**.

Cautious-Lecture-858

Exactly, if it goes back to $120k you’ll know the FUD is over. Then your buy signal is if it doubles from here because it means everyone is extremely bullish.

slvbtc

The 4 year cycle theory expects all of 2026 to be bearish with the ultimate low occurring in december 2026. I dont believe that will happen at all. I stated the 4 year cycle FUD will cause huge selling, which is exactly what we have seen. But I also expect 2026 to be extremely bullish with bitcoin making new all time highs by mid year. Meaning anyone who believes in the 4 year cycle who sold 4 months ago and waits until december 2026 to buy back in will be buying way above where they sold leaving them with far less bitcoin than they had originally.

DRAGULA85

Bitcoin makes most moon moves within 10 days. Usually when the FUD makes everyone thinks it’s dead. Pay for your train tickets quick

rs1971

Maybe it's not FUD. Maybe, outside of BTC, it is all worthless and people have finally figured that out.

cooltone

Another OP that likes to thier posts and comments hidden. It is surprising how many of these shy posters spout absolute rubbish FUD. It stands to reason that the company's treasury specialist will not do any research or take advice that; bitcoin is volatile, prone to periodic bubbles, but has good long-term growth prospects. Then suddenly lose all his brain cells and FOMO in. /s You've been sniffing too much WD40.

Top_Philosopher3915

Haven’t you heard that influential were proposed to be paid to FUD XRP ?

Ge_Yo

True, it wouldn’t be crypto-only. If it ever gets practical, banks and the wider internet are in the same boat. That’s why I’m more interested in who’s quietly building upgrade paths now vs. arguing if it’s “FUD.”

reddiculed

Why not FUD both?

TheBigLR901

Ahh, bitcoin dead again. Music to my ears.. Confirms BTC stronger than ever now when this FUD hits.

soyuz-1

Lol this sounds like the most obvious scaremongering FUD. At this point I feel confident in buying again. After some years in the market you start to see the patterns.

pythosynthesis

Only thing is, seeing this for the first to time you must have been living under a rock. With Bitcoin existing for 16 years, what have you been doing when not to ever hear any of the incessant FUD from the past?

ThreeTonChonker

I feel bad for the newbies that aren’t immune to this FUD after hearing it 1,000 times before

Onelinersandblues

Not the China FUD IN 2026 lollll

pablo_in_blood

Just look away for a while. The FUD on this forum rn is also just crazy - honestly to the point that it seems pretty clear it’s manipulation - just keep your head and btc will reward you.

freesects

More FUD to try and get people to sell. It’s comical.

ThulsaAmon

Load the China FUD

Stray14

No there isn’t Binance FUD at all every cycle. The Teher narrative has faded and they have remained elusive and solvent enough for a long enough period that they have substantiated whatever fools game they were playing through the Trump admin. The Binance FUD however is new and has legs if it catches on.

Freefromoutcome

Not gonna lie, and I know this is going to be very unpopular for the btc community. I couldn't take the extra risk of losing it on my ledger. Too much FUD around it back in 2024-2025. I sold my real btc for bito, mstr, and ibit, and bitx. It's been fine, and I don't have to worry about losing it all in one shot because someone hacks my computer. I collect some dividends w/ bito and bitx, and can sell covered calls on ibit and mstr. I'm content. (just started position in bitx after sell off)

SuperDangerBro

It's all the FUD that comes with it. The litmus test for conviction

forgottensplendour

FUD accounts

firmfirm

Its quite easy. They don't have any solvency issues. Its just FUD / BS. Binance follow so many regulations now (same with all big cexes) especially in the EU. If this was true we woulda gotten proof of missing money. But we won't. Since its just bs.

gorillalifter47

Holding bitcoin is brutal. At all time highs you regret not buying more earlier and vow to load up during the next bear market, but when the price drops by 50% the FUD starts, every Facebook news story about bitcoin crashing is accompanied by hundreds of laugh reacts, and you wonder if maybe you are the fool for buying this fake internet money crap. None of us know what will happen in the future, but now is the time to learn as much about bitcoin as you can and decide whether this is something you want to pursue. If it is, now is the time to be courageous.

Asleep_Emu_2466

I’m more skeptical. Saying “we’ll just hard fork later” sounds easy on paper, but coordinating that at global scale isn’t trivial, especially if the threat shows up faster than expected. I get not wanting to spread FUD, but dismissing it for years and now acknowledging it feels a bit reactive rather than proactive.

Allred87

FUD baby

Ge_Yo

I think that’s where the tension is. If something is only a potential threat, people dismiss it as FUD. But if you wait until it’s no longer “potential,” upgrades stop being calm engineering work and start becoming rushed. Curious where people think that balance should be.

OKporkchop

I did this in the 21-22 timeline, bought high, sold into the FUD low. It's all good man...stack up some cash, get your personal budget in order, give yourself a buffer to live and then jump back in.

Ostrale1

Yeap. It gets easier, but FUD kicks in a bit.

jawni

I really do want to believe you're honestly trying to learn, but you should be updating your view much quicker if you're really understanding any of this. You basically glossed over my response and then doubled down on your own beliefs, which are backed up by nothing. >Rapidly decreasing validator count, I view as a bad sign, if there was some dotation system which ended and revealed naked truth, then why should I change my view? Because you're not understanding the nuance. First off, it doesn't seem like you understand that validators are not fungible entities, there are all sorts of validators, and having a million validators isn't necessarily better than having only 100 because you have to take into account far more context. With that in mind, you should maybe re-read my comment where I talked about those other factors, that context is what matters. If you really cared about decentralization, you'd be looking at these factors and likely holding a very different point of view. >The truth is it is expensive, people wrapped up, decentralization suffers. The chain is actually significantly more decentralized, like I already mentioned. There is 10x less stake from the foundation, independent validators are increasing. Client diversity constantly improving. Alpenglow update will make it more financially feasible as well. >Also there are rumors Solana runs substantial amount of the nodes itself - yeah, it is rumours. lol. Do you have... literally any sort of theory on this or any evidence? Have you even looked at, what you should know, is the very public validator list and even found *any* you suspect of being secretly ran by Solana? And why would they run their own validators when the delegation program obviously worked as well as it did? > Then there are all those bots inflating transaction metrics, including of those non-client transactions and damn memecoins where kids are creating tokens and then rugpulling each other - substantial part of Solana, IMO sign of decadency. bro... lets graduate from the grade school level FUD 1. Bots are not inherently bad, these are smart contract platforms after all. They are made for autonomous transactions, why do you think x402 and stuff like openclaw is such a hot narrative right now? I've never understood the "all bots = bad" argument, luckily it's an opinion not held by anyone of any esteem in crypto. 2. Every networks suffers from usage from bots that can be detrimental, not just Solana. Thinking only Solana has "bad" bots is just showing either your bias or your general lack of knowledge about the industry. Here is some reading for you to get caught up: https://x.com/bertcmiller/status/1934657926272307332 , https://x.com/chrischang43/status/1923835638261907921 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01462 3. Even if you don't count vote transactions, Solana is smoking the competition. For reference, exactly one week ago, Solana processed 148m non-vote transactions. To put that into context, Solana did 30% more transactions in a single day then Cardano has done in its entire existence. And the amount of transactions over that week was as many as Ethereum has done in the last 2 years. (source: https://x.com/vibhu/status/2018368750408364174) 4. Memecoins exist on every network and the will continue to exist unless chains start censoring them. Your username is literally Decentralization-God so I'd think you'd understand this but maybe not, decentralization is a means to an end, not the goal itself. One of the qualities you want decentralization to bring, is censorship-resistance. Either you should be ok with memecoins existing, or you should quit pretending to understand and/or care about decentralization.

AlphaRed

Bots follow them, so some people will follow. It’s similar to how bots upvote coordinated FUD or shills here (some brain dead posts instantly with hundreds of upvote). At least on X, we can mute the degens and only view posts from verified professionals who’s been in the space for a long time. That’s where you’ll find better information.

Illustrious_Dig250

20000 btc won't event move price jack shit but this FUD is going to destroy btc

Blade_Runner_69

I don't believe you. This post sounds like some bullshit bot post 🚨 In my decade of using it they have never asked for that. Looks like the bots are looking to farm FUD

olugbo

Same FUD, different day. You learn to tune out the noise.

Party_Operation_9711

I’m just not sure with all that downward momentum and FUD that we have hit the bottom. There’s so much uncertainty I think one more bad news headline will make it drop again.

CryptoHalcon

Honestly the FUD didn't justify dropping the price as much as it did. Everything has been oversold like crazy.

theincognito66

Miners won't be profitable below a certain level. I don't see the "death spiral" occurring. People hoping for below 50k need to do more research into what that actually means if it stays below 50k too long. FUD turns into FOMO quickly.

devCheckingIn

They basically squashed the FUD about having to sell BTC.

Wlcm2ThPwrStoneWrld

This is called 'whataboutism' and is a bad faith comparison. Just saying brother, by your own phrasing, if you're going to act like there's all this stuff to see, maybe post something other than 'I feel like...' so we can have a meaningful discussion. Otherwise, this isn't a contribution of anything other than worrying and FUD, ironically.

apkatt

ADA has been in and out of top 10 since its launch in 2017, MC ranking is one of the most meaningless metrics anyway. If you want to FUD Cardano why not mentioned that it failed to hit a new ATH in this cycle – which is true for the vast majority of cryptos. This post is beyond stupid.

AcostaJA

FUD, was a IT/Software

Blade_Runner_69

I'm not even a fan of Binance or BNB, but even I know it's all dumb FUD and idiots trying to cause panic. There are powerful people in America that hate CZ with a vengeance, because of what he did to their darling Sam Bankman the SEC insider and FTX. So expect lies in the media.

dustypajamas

The Wealth Transfer: How the "Big Players" Engineer a Market ​The common mistake people make is thinking markets are purely organic. In reality, a market crash is often just a massive transfer of wealth from the "impatient/uninformed" to the "patient/connected."​ Phase 1: The Engineered Shakeout (Accumulation) ​Value is driven by confidence. If a major institutional player wants to enter a position like Bitcoin but the price is too high, they need a "discount." By leveraging media influence or public skepticism, they create FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). ​The Goal: Trigger "stop-losses" and panic selling among retail holders. ​The Result: As the "weak hands" sell in a panic, the "Smart Money" uses algorithms to quietly buy up that supply at the bottom without spiking the price. ​Phase 2: The Narrative Flip (Markup) ​Once the big players are "long," the narrative changes. The same voices that called the asset a "bubble" start discussing its "institutional adoption" or "long-term utility." ​The Goal: Foster FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). ​The Result: Retail investors rush back in, pushing the price higher. The big players sit back and watch their net worth skyrocket on the back of public enthusiasm. ​Phase 3: The Exit Liquidity Trap (Distribution) ​This is where the "Wealth Transfer" completes. To sell a massive amount of Bitcoin at \$125,000, you need an equal amount of "buy" orders. If the big players just dumped their coins, the price would crater before they could exit. ​The Strategy: They create a "Moon" narrative—predicting \$500,000 or \$1 million targets. ​The Trap: While retail investors are buying the "top" in hopes of a 5x return, the big players are using that Exit Liquidity to sell their positions profitably. ​Phase 4: The Double Dip (The Short) ​The truly elite don't just sell; they short. Once they are fully divested (sold out), they pull the rug by leaking negative news or withdrawing support. ​The Result: The market crashes. The retail investors who over-leveraged are forced to liquidate to pay their bills. The big players make a fortune on their short positions on the way down, and then use those profits to start Phase 1 all over again at the new bottom.

necropuddi

Because the rumors are bs. There's Binance and Tether FUD every crash.

Ok-Independence210

So in your mind, people are worrying cause of FUD? No exchanges have gone under? The crypto game is full of fraud and scams. FTX went under, so please don't act like there's nothing to see..

Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck

Most of the FUD is bots.

qwertylopez

I believe so. I believe I’m pragmatic but recently this has been some of the most compelling FUD I have ever seen which makes me think we could be in for the worst winter ever.

Powerful_Play_9195

You ever hear of FUD?’people can’t handle.

Aggravating_Ring_714

Sounds like FUD. Doubt Binance is going down anytime soon.

therhinohunter

you do not understand macroeconomics if you think current price action is out of the ordinary. Sorry, but do some more reading before you spread nonsense FUD like this

acidburn3006

Withdraw from Binance with no issues. This is FUD