Bitcoin’s drop below $77,000 was not a routine correction, according to analysts. It was a stress test - and the market failed it. Roughly $800 billion in value has reportedly been wiped out since October’s peak near $126,000, pushing Bitcoin out of the global top 10 assets and triggering more than $2.5 billion in forced liquidations in a single day. The move matters because it reveals what this bull market was built on: leverage, thin liquidity, and the assumption that buyers would always appear. When geopolitical risk rose and the dollar strengthened, that assumption collapsed. What followed was not panic buying or ... (full story)