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 becomes critical. When synthetic supply overwhelms real, on-chain supply, price no longer responds primarily to marginal demand. Instead, it responds to positioning, hedging flows, funding dynamics, and forced liquidations. Price discovery migrates away from the blockchain and into derivatives markets.
Wall Street is not speculating on Bitcoin’s direction. It is applying the same playbook used in every derivatives-dominated market such as gold, silver, oil, and equities: create effectively unlimited paper supply, short into rallies, trigger liquidations, cover at lower prices, and repeat. This is not trading; it is inventory manufacturing
As a result, a single real #Bitcoin can now simultaneously underpin multiple financial claims: an ETF share, a futures contract, a perpetual swap, options delta exposure, a broker loan, and a structured product all at the same time. That is multiple claims layered on one underlying asset, forming a fractional-reserve pricing system that merely wears a Bitcoin label.
The key point is not that Bitcoin has changed on-chain. It is that the mechanism determining its price has changed. Ignoring this structural reality leads to misreading the market.
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