the entire argument is circular - people respond to incentives, and 2021 was when the gm trend started, NOT 2025
this wasn’t about growth, it was about community
the current algorithm appears to be more about maximizing engagement, at the cost of community and quality signal

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Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just shaken the market with a serious internal incident related to the distribution of rewards...

A Bithumb exchange employee accidentally 'gifted' 2,000 Bitcoin to a user, causing the price of BTC on the exchange to suddenly drop by 10%.

Bitcoin's fundamentals have never changed; what has changed is its price in a continuously depreciating fiat currency system.

The real risk of Bitcoin is never price pullbacks.

Author: Nancy, PANews
Original title: No Black Swan Events, Four Atypical Guesses About the Culprit Behind Bitcoin Overselling
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A black swan-style crash has arrived, but we haven't seen where the black swan is, which is even more unsettling.
Almost without warning, Bitcoin suddenly plummeted, entering its third-largest oversold zone in history, causing both long positions to collapse and psychological barriers to fall. This has left the market perplexed...