BITCOIN CATCHES A MISSILE — THE FED STILL HAS ONE MOVE LEFT.
The tape sagged Friday morning. Bitcoin fell below $62.5K as Iran retaliation news stacked on top of an AI-led sell wave in US equities. The Fundamentalist read starts with the mechanic. This is not a Bitcoin problem. It is a portfolio-liquidation problem. When leveraged books face margin calls, they sell what they can move, not what they want to move. BTC is the liquidity gift, not the target. The Counter-Voice will spin the print. Peter Schiff will claim vindication for the ninetieth time. The trap has not moved. Iran fired a missile. The Fed still has one move left. The dollar still loses purchasing power on the same trajectory it has followed for eleven decades. The cap is still twenty-one million. This is the pattern the Fundamentalist tier learned to read from Voelker, from Bernanke, from the 2020 COVID crash: geopolitical shocks pull the tape short-term, monetary policy pulls it back long-term, and every operator who sat through the shock closed the year in the green. Weak hands exit at the low. The hardest money stays. Tick tock. Next block.
cointelegraph · jul 17 · 2h from post
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