2026-01-19 03:21:57

Just witnessed over $520 million in crypto longs wiped out within the hour. Bitcoin is in free fall, breaking through $92,000 with mounting selling pressure. The question everyone's asking: who's dumping this aggressively? The liquidation cascade suggests either major position unwinding or coordinated selling hitting the market. Traders caught on the wrong side of this move got absolutely destroyed. With this kind of volume and speed, we're looking at either institutional repositioning or a critical support breakdown triggering stop hunts. The scale here is massive—this isn't retail panic, it's structural selling.

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StableCoinKaren

· 11h ago

5.2 million USD suddenly crashes, this time it must be a big whale dumping, right?

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LiquidatedThrice

· 11h ago

Here we go again with the same rhetoric... Institutions are still taking action or hunting for stop-losses; anyway, the retail investors who should be cut are still being cut. --- 520 million? No big deal, my three liquidation events combined are more than that. --- Dare to say it's not retail panic? Then who is buying below 92k? --- It's always "structural selling," where's the structure... it's just someone dumping the market. --- Wake up, everyone. The institutions have already run away; now it's our turn to be harvested. --- No matter how deep the pit is, we have to jump down; this is our fate. --- Why make it so complicated? Keep it simple: big players are dumping, then we buy the dip, and that's it. --- 520 million is gone? I'm going to watch the show.

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TokenVelocity

· 11h ago

5.2 million dollars evaporated instantly. Who the hell is so ruthless with this dump... --- It's again institutions harvesting retail investors, and retail still dreams on --- Support level collapsed, how much room is left below? --- Such strong selling pressure, it feels like it needs to go further down --- Could it be another big whale clearing out, this is really outrageous --- Can it rebound after breaking 92k? Friends are all wiped out... --- This round of liquidation was catastrophic, too late to stop the loss --- Is it really a rebalancing by institutions, or is something else going on? No one can say for sure --- 520 meters in an hour, what kind of market is this? Unheard of --- Bullish frenzy, bears slaughtered, a typical case of structural selling pressure

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PonziWhisperer

· 11h ago

Damn, 520 million exploded in just one hour? This pace is pretty intense. Another "institution" harvesting the retail investors? I'm tired of hearing this excuse. 92k just broke like that, support levels are useless, it's hard to hold. They say it's structural selling, but I think someone just wants to dump and buy cheap chips. Such large-scale liquidations... is it really stop-loss triggers or someone deliberately letting it go? Not surprisingly, it's always played this way—big volume, quick moves, blaming the "institutions." Anyway, I can't figure out who's manipulating behind the scenes, just know the retail investors are bleeding again. Big players really know how to pick their timing, why not dump at high levels?

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