honestly just been staring at the charts on chain data for this last bit of 2025 and something feels so weird. btc is hitting these massive all time highs but the vibe is just… dead? like where is the retail hype?
it feels like we aren't even trading a decentralized currency anymore. we're just trading high tech tracking slips. every time we try to moon, the institutional bots just suppress the hell out of it, and then they gobble up the supply every time it dips. it’s like crypto has finally been tamed by the big players.
i keep thinking about how we spent a decade trying to be our own bank, but what if we just ended up building a way for the actual banks to monitor every single cent we own even more efficiently?
are we actually winning here? or did we just spend 15 years building the infrastructure for a perfect surveillance state? i want to be bullish, i really do, but it feels like that "trillion dollar market cap" was just the price blackrock and the others paid to buy out the revolution. am i crazy for thinking this or is anyone else feeling this shift?
did we just help the banks build a better cage for us?
byu/CommissionNo6328 inCryptoMarkets
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All of this was evident from the beginning of 2024 when the financial giants entered this arena.
The rest is logical, but all is not lost. There are still ways to resist this Wall Street takeover: [**The Trojan Horse of Wall Street: Why Bitcoin Institutional Adoption is a Defeat, Not a Victory.**](https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/the-trojan-horse-of-wall-street-why)
yeah the vibe is definitely off. this is why i’ve been looking more at smaller L1s like SEI that still have that builder energy. btc just feels like a boomer asset now controlled by suits
Yeah. The whole point was to be independent of the system, not be swallowed up by it.
So are you worried about the lack of retail hype & price action as mentioned in the first few sentences or the appeal to decentralization & privacy that you use toward the end?
These are very different and largely oppositional forces. You can’t want to be punk but with mainstream adoption anymore than you can expect absurdly financial returns without big money moving in.
Where there is opportunity, people will seize it thereby creating friction which reduces the opportunity until it no longer exists. That’s just how markets achieve their equilibrium.