🚨 Trump is turning his attention to Big Oil.
He says he's instructed the DOJ to investigate oil companies for allegedly keeping gas prices artificially high.
"Customers are being gouged," he says.
Oil prices are falling.
Now Trump wants those savings to reach consumers.
🚨🇮🇷 Iran has officially monetized the Strait of Hormuz.
$2 million per voyage. Accepted in cash, crypto, or barter.
3,200 ships and 40,000 sailors are waiting on the other side of that price tag.
Source: Al Jazeera
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump:
"I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important.
We are going after the rest — They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also! In a different attack, we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters.
Other than that, their Navy is doing very well!"
🚨 UPDATE: Haryana govt has de-empaneled #IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank with immediate effect.
After the ₹590 Cr discrepancy, action has followed quickly.
This is getting serious.
CZ basically said:
Nothing was manipulated.
Nothing was Binance’s fault.
Everything is regulated.
And if something broke, users were paid.
So please stop asking questions.
JUST IN: Binance founder CZ says “If you were ever jealous of people buying crypto on the cheap, and able to hold them through the cycles, think about what they did in moments like this.”
𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓: 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐟 vs 𝐂𝐙 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞… क्रिप्टो दुनिया में घमासान🔥!
@PeterSchiff को अब भी समझ नहीं आया कि .@cz_binance ने जो 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐫 दिया… वो असली था या चाल!
CZ ने सिर्फ 30 सेकंड में Peter Schiff को पूरी तरह चारों ख़ाने चित्त कर दिया!
क्या चल रहा है यहां!? 😳🔥
BREAKING:
🇦🇪 UAE & 🇨🇳 China complete first-ever cross-border payment using the Digital Dirham CBDC.
Cross-border CBDC payments will need very clear regulatory frameworks (AML/KYC, data privacy, monitoring).
Adoption: For this to really change how trade and remittances work, regular businesses and individuals need to start using it — not just governments.
Technology Risk: While DLT (distributed ledger tech) offers advantages, there are always risks around resilience, security, and scalability.
#Uae
#China
#Cbdc
#Payments
🚨BREAKING:
Bitcoin weekly RSI Just Hit the most oversold level since the FTX crash.
Relative Strength Index (RSI) has dropped to its lowest level since the FTX collapse (Nov 2022), it means:
Momentum is extremely bearish right now.
Selling pressure is unusually high for a multi-week timeframe.
During previous cycles, these conditions often preceded high-value accumulation zones, though not always the exact bottom.
#Btc
#Rsi
AMAZON JUST FIRED 14,000 WORKERS AND BLAMED “CULTURE”—THE LEAKED NUMBERS REVEAL WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
June 17, 2025: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sends memo to all employees.
“AI will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains.”
Direct quote. On record.
October 28, 2025: Amazon announces 14,000 corporate layoffs … largest in company history.
The breakdown nobody covered:
• 1,900 engineers cut (40% of all layoffs)
• Mid-level software developers hit hardest
• Games division zeroed out
• AI shopping teams gutted
Same week: Amazon launches Kiro to general availability … their AI coding agent that writes software.
October 30, 2025: Jassy on earnings call …
“This wasn’t AI-driven. Not right now at least. It’s culture.”
Here’s what the data shows:
Washington State filed paperwork for 8,508 new H-1B visa workers in 2025 while cutting 2,303 local employees in the same locations.
Microsoft just admitted AI writes 30% of their code. They cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Google, Meta, Intel … all following the same script: AI announcement, then layoffs, then “efficiency” claims.
This is the pattern:
Step 1: Build the AI tools
Step 2: Cut the workers who did those tasks
Step 3: Never admit causation
Step 4: Replace with lower-cost visa labor where needed
Over 200,000 tech workers lost jobs in 2025 while their companies posted record profits.
The automation isn’t coming.
It’s here. It’s happening. And it started with the people who built it.
If Amazon is cutting their own software engineers while shipping AI coding tools, what makes you think your job is safe?
The replacement phase has begun.
Full deep dive article - https://t.co/pesNbd0pod
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Systems are breaking.
A few are rebuilding.
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Market Selloff Dynamics + Bottoming
The goal of this write up is to give you a bit of insight on how I spot HTF pivot points in markets. We want to understand the psychology behind risk unwinding and use that to our advantage to potentially spot bottoms.
1. Low Conviction Sells First
- When uncertainty hits, sellers dump what they least desire i.e., lower conviction coins will top first and bleed early.
- Think about it logically. If you're in a pinch and needed cash irl, you're not going to sell your prized possessions, you're gunna sell the crap you never use.
- Likewise, traders will sell what they’re least emotionally invested in to build cash when uncertain or want to decrease risk.
- It’s not a coincidence that this has happened every HTF top this cycle. Alts don't rally after, they rally during. They also top weeks before BTC even shows an ounce of weakness.
- It’s an early warning. Smart traders de-risk before the crowd even knows what's happening.
2. Risk vs. Quality
- Let's go back to the earlier metaphor. People will hold onto their quality prized possessions for as long as they possibly can. It's not until they're desperate that they will part with them.
- The most desirable coins, more often than not, will attempt to hold their gains for as long as possible. This is why BTC always looks fine and you see dozens of "Why is everyone panicking, BTC looks great" tweets weeks before sell offs.
In selloffs:
a) Junk sells early
b) Quality sells late
c) Everything sells eventually
Watch the order of events. It’s a map of stress flow.
3. Reflexivity Kicks In
- Early weakness causes more weakness.
- Once a whale starts to unload into exhausted demand they begin to induce weakness. Classic signs of distribution, absorption, exhaustion, trend loss etc.
- A character shift in a risk asset will make the first order of experienced traders reassess.
- "I didn't sell top, but the character of the trend has shifted. Time to reduce exposure/close"
- “If this is nuking, what else am I exposed to?”
Suddenly:
Rebalancing triggers more selling
This is reflexivity.
A feedback loop of diminishing risk appetite.
4. Volatility: The Dance
Before many big selloffs in BTC, markets go quiet. Volatility drops. Trends become ranges. Complacency peaks.
Then, boom.
Let's talk a bit about balance and imbalance.
- Balance is achieved once the market begins to agree on what's expensive and what's cheap. It's a dance. Equilibrium.
- Equilibrium is calm. What's known is known. Speculation diminishes. Volatility compresses.
- The dance continues until one party gets bored, tired or wants to go to the bar to get another drink. i.e. buyers or sellers get exhausted; changes to supply/demand.
- Equilibrium is damaged- and once it breaks: Imbalance.
- Price displaces violently. Value becomes unclear; volatility explodes. The market craves balance and will actively seek it.
- Price often returns to areas where recent balance was formed- hvn, orderblock, composite value etc.
- This is where you get the sharpest bounces.
"First test, best test"
- Subsequent tests will provide diminishing reactions. Things become structural. Price accepts its new home. Volatility compresses. Balance is found once again.
5. The Flow of a Selloff & Spotting Bottoms
Capitulation isn’t the beginning of the end; it’s the end of the middle.
a) Alts vs. Bitcoin
- This cycle alts often do the bulk of their selling before BTC capitulates.
- Recent example: Fartcoin sold off 88% from its top before the late February BTC capitulation. Since this is true, we can begin to use it as an edge when looking for exhaustion (bottoming)
- The strongest alts will begin to show relative strength (exhaustion) earlier as BTC is still being hyper-volatile and looking for new balance.
- In order words, look for good alts to begin to achieve balance as BTC is in the later stages of imbalance.
As participants, our goal is to spot these divergences:
“Has momentum shifted?”
“Is volatility compressing?”
"Is the velocity of selling diminishing?"
“Is it holding while BTC makes new lows?”
Signs of bottoming in Q2:
- Momentum loss (Fartcoin)
- SFP/Deviation (Hype/Sui)
- Higher lows vs BTC’s lower lows (Pepe)
In short: alts front-load their pain, then decrease in velocity as BTC bottoms.
Remember this how we spot "good" alts.
The weak stay weak.
The strong start whispering before the market speaks.
b) Bitcoin vs. SPX
Now a little exercise for you all
Combine all the concepts in this thread and maybe the following begins to make sense:
Summer '23: BTC topped before SPX, bottomed earlier
Summer '24: BTC topped before SPX, absorbed the macro related SPX crash at range low
So far in '25: BTC topped before SPX, absorbed a 20% SPX crash at range low
TL;DR
Bottoms are a process, not a moment.
Alts First
Bitcoin Next
SPX Last
Watch for the structure, not just the sentiment.