On the 17th of December, Bitcoin-oh, that fickle, capricious beast-was seized by a fit of existential crisis, soaring $3,000 in a mere hour, only to collapse like a gambler’s last coin into the abyss of $86,000.
Yet what moral or cosmic law governed this chaos? No decree from heaven, no whisper from the earth. Nay, it was leverage-man’s eternal folly-positioning, and the fragile illusion of liquidity that binds markets as tightly as a noose.
A Squeeze of the Shorted Souls
The ascent began as Bitcoin, like a desperate pilgrim, clawed toward the sacred peak of $90,000, a summit both psychological and technical, where angels and demons alike tremble.
And lo! For above this level, a swarm of leveraged short positions festered-souls betting against the tide. When the price surged, their forced liquidations became a symphony of panic, each trade a dirge as they bought back their folly, driving the price ever upward in a spiral of self-destruction.
$120 million evaporated in an instant-a modern Sodom, consumed not by fire, but by the cold arithmetic of margin calls. A classic short squeeze, where the market itself becomes the executioner, laughing all the way to the bank 💸.
To the untrained eye, strength! But beneath? A hollow shell, as fragile as the faith of a sinner at midnight.
From Euphoria to Liquidation: The Longs’ Lament
When Bitcoin, briefly resurrected, kissed $90,000 anew, the masses-ah, the eternal hopefuls!-rushed in, clutching leveraged long positions like drowning men grasping at straws.
But the rally, devoid of true conviction, faltered-a candle snuffed by the winds of doubt. And when the price fell, so too did the walls of Jericho, as exchanges, cold and unfeeling, liquidated $200 million of dreams. A cascade of ruin, a long liquidation symphony, where the market devoured its own children 🎻.
Whoever is left
We need to know what happened on October 10
It’s VERY apparent that the market broke that day and nothing has been the same since
We haven’t seen Bitcoin or Alts trade like this since 2018
We need answers
– EllioTrades (@elliotrades) December 17, 2025
Thus the fall was swifter, deeper, crueler-a dagger to the heart after the fleeting kiss of glory.
In hours, Bitcoin slumped back to $86,000, a drunkard stumbling home after a night of excess.
The Fragile Anatomy of a Broken Market
Let us peer into the entrails of Binance and OKX, where trader data whispers tales of hubris. On Binance, the longs multiplied like locusts, yet their convictions were as weak as a kitten’s mewl.
On OKX, the wise ones shifted their wagers, buying the dip or hedging their bets like chess masters in a game against the Reaper. Crowded positions, half-hearted faith, and leverage-a witches’ brew for a storm of biblical proportions 🌪️.
Whales or Market Makers? A Farce in Five Acts
Did the whales conspire? Did market makers, those puppeteers of price, pull the strings? On-chain data shows Wintermute and kin ferrying Bitcoin like fools ferrying gold to a bottomless pit.
But alas! No grand conspiracy-only the mundane theater of inventory rebalancing. The market’s own known mechanics-liquidations, leverage, thin order books-were the true villains all along. How anticlimactic! 🎭
The Eternal Verdict: Bitcoin’s Fragile Psyche
This tale is not of Bitcoin, but of man. Leverage remains man’s opiate, liquidity a phantom, and price a mirror of our collective madness.
The fundamentals? Unmoved. The crash? A reflection not of value, but of structure-a house of cards built on the quicksand of human greed 🃏.
🚨 BITCOIN IS BEING MANIPULATED, AND I HAVE SOLID PROOF!!!
Everyone’s talking about how Bitcoin went up $3,000 and then down $4,000 in minutes.
Everyone’s posting about it…
but nobody seems to understand what actually happened.
You need to look at the flows, not the chart.…
– NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) December 17, 2025
Until man repents of leverage, until positions are cleansed of hubris, such madness shall repeat-a Sisyphean farce where the rock always rolls back down. Bitcoin did not fall for sin, but for leverage-its own Jekyll and Hyde 🧛♂️.
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