The Tide Pulling Out

Jun 14, 2022 • 8 Min Read

The Bloodbath

The bloodbath that has persisted for the better part of the past seven months continued this weekend, with the market shedding an additional $200 billion in total market cap, falling below the $1 trillion mark for the first time since late 2020. Yesterday was the single biggest decline for bitcoin (-16%) since March 2020. At the time of writing (early morning hours of June 14th), there have been a total of $1.2 billion in liquidations of leveraged positions in the futures market.

We are witnessing a combination of macro forces and over-leveraged positions in the market to ...

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