My thoughts in the see of red
Look around there is red all around, alts are bleeding and so are meme coins.
BTC is bleeding and so is ETH and the top coins on the list.
Is BTC blood different than Altcoin blood?
If you see the fall experienced by BTC then it looks bad to see BTC fall. After all Bitcoin is the papa of all crypto if it falls everything falls with it.
The difference is that bitcoin can take a fall a lot better than any other coin or token out there.
So if BTC falls by say 10% the altcoins fall a lot harder.
The memes can fall by 70-80%
This red and the fall is giving a survival theory
In times like this it is important to see what is falling the least. The answer is no brainer, it is BTC.
The interesting part is that all the red is causing the retail guys to panic and sell their crypto.
For a trade to go through if you are selling then someone has to buy for the trades to go through.
The interesting part is that the Blackrocks and the institutions of the world are buying the BTC that you are selling.
There is a clear transfer of wealth
A lot of retail investors and holders of crypto may look at their portfolio and see the value being wiped out. Their stop losses are getting triggered or maybe they are in the frame of mind to save some capital where they still can and in this process they may end up selling the assets which have fallen the least and in this capacity it is the BTC in their portfolio that is going to see the selling coming from the retail guy because perhaps that is the only asset that can give them some value in a selling transaction.
The other side of the trade are the big institutions buying up all the BTC that they can buy.
The memes coin trades that once gave the retail investors an adrenaline rush are the ones that are giving the max pain to the holders because currently a lot of the focus is shifting away from the meme coin pumps on solana.
Perhaps the markets are looking for another narrative.
Flash crashes are nothing new to crypto
If you look up the history of the crypto markets then it would come as no surprise that flash crashes in crypto keep happening from time to time.
The only thing that has changed now is how big institutions and big money are involved.
Flash crashes are happening a lot more frequently.
The big institutions are the market makers
Since the big institutions have deep pockets and a lot more information then the retail guy, they have a much larger influence in making the markets move in the direction that they want.
Be the BTC investor for the long term
Looking at how things are falling it makes a lot of sense to hold BTC as the major part of one's portfolio and in this way the fall in the portfolio would be the least.
On the recovery side too it is BTC which would lead the recovery once it happens and the alts could bleed for a lot longer.
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