Daily Crypto Discussion - August 25, 2025 (GMT+0)

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[u/Successful_Pin_2641]

We pump market open, don't sell

[u/Olskoolah]

Bart Simpson almost complete.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/Olskoolah]

whats a bart simpson ?

[u/Olskoolah → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

When price chart looks like Bart’s haircut. Big up, sideways, big down.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/Olskoolah]

which means for the future what?

[u/kironet996 → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

that it will start printing Marge's haircut.

[u/Olskoolah → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

Nothing. Was just a trap to bring in buyers so they could dump at higher price.

[u/ieatvegans]

This week we finally get $5k ETH.

[u/ozera202]

“Health correction “ STFU . Most of the coins have not passed 2024 December levels .

[u/jwz9904 → u/ozera202]

healthy for ETH

[u/noviwu97 → u/ozera202]

Don't marry your bags

[u/panthera_N]

nice

[u/Kaliberrrr]

Boss, I'm tired. I cant keep up with stacking sats. My wallet is empty. I sold everything already, except my kidney

[u/kipha01 → u/Kaliberrrr]

Sell your kidney

[u/WaitingOnPizza → u/kipha01]

It's the only hway.

[u/holiquetal]

really weak performance by the internet coins in the last 12 hours. I'm disappointed

[u/e07f]

he bought??? DAMP IT

[u/Mysterious_Ad_4658]

BTC Dominance has firmly broken and closed below the ascending wedge on its weekly timeframe, now siting right on its 100 week moving average. expecting a bounce from that level shortly then we will get the final capitulation for alt season starting hopefully in october time, can see the bounce lasting most of september even into early october.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/Mysterious_Ad_4658]

eli5 in english please

[u/Mysterious_Ad_4658 → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

expect to have the opportunity to sell your alts up multiple x's around november time

[u/solidstatepr8 → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

Coin might go up, or down

[u/Okra_Silent → u/Mysterious_Ad_4658]

Listen to this guy. 

[u/cascading_disruption]

Yesterday heaven, r/cc bullish. Later yesterday + today, flash crash, r/cc bearish.

This sub is for "price go up" only people. Nobody talks about crypto tech any more.

Pink pony club should be the name of r/cc...

[u/MichaelAischmann → u/cascading_disruption]

Tech talk isn't appreciated here. It's all about back/over, burger & ramen.

[u/RockemSockemRowboats → u/cascading_disruption]

This sub is like chicken little every time there’s a slight dip. Bears are thirsty

[u/jwz9904 → u/cascading_disruption]

soon we will be all in for the tech and the friendships too

[u/Impossible_Soup_1932]

After 4+ years in crypto I finally took more profit than what I put in. It’s all good from here on out

[u/KalEl729]

I hope that whale gets fucked

[u/panthera_N]

there is no more cash to buy the dip

[u/DryMyBottom → u/panthera_N]

not even here, spent it all to buy the top

[u/JerkyJunkie]

Marketmakers simply doing what they do obliterating longs and covering shorts. Shaking out the new, and the fearful. While giving opportunity to big money, and the original faithful! The patient and the faithful are rewarded. Some of us remember 67% drawdowns, and either holding, or doubling down. This is just a normal Sunday!

[u/jwheel888 → u/JerkyJunkie]

They definitely dont want us in the game. Too bad, im not fear selling

[u/JerkyJunkie → u/jwheel888]

They never have wanted us to be, only to be the ones who either continue to keep the game going, or the few of us they allow to collect breadcrumbs so that the illusion doesn’t fall apart… If we stick hard enough to the original plan, don’t play into the game for once, don’t not just sell our stacks, but ourselves/freedom along with it. This will be the first opportunity since coming off the gold standard to at least slightly even the playing field. If not all of the faith, and patience that has been put in not just monetarily, but through educating the others around us as to the opportunity will have been nothing but likely the last opportunity…

[u/robis87]

This is only such a warm up

[u/MichaelAischmann]

I bought the dip but it keeps dipping.

[u/kironet996 → u/MichaelAischmann]

keep buying

[u/Simke11]

The future of finance, brought to you by whales and bots.

[u/tesseramous → u/Simke11]

I think the whole 'future of finance thing' refers to the core system, the code. Not these fiat ramps that have been built around it.

[u/Consistent-Beyond129]

The unsuspecting retail got some serious PTSD from the sharp wick. Trust issues FR

[u/kingjoeg]

This has been a terrible bull run year. We’re still at December 2024 prices or lower for most crypto’s except ETH right now

[u/Lagna85 → u/kingjoeg]

still at -50% December 2024.

[u/Pretenderinchief]

This has been one of the craziest sundays I’ve seen in a while. I know everyone here is like being “are You new here blah blah” and although I’m not, it’s been a while since such obvious long short games have been played on a Sunday.

[u/LivingTheTruths → u/Pretenderinchief]

Especially after friday close. Just gave everything back while Markets literally untouched

[u/Material-Gift6823 → u/Pretenderinchief]

I feel nothing 

[u/ithastogoupfromhere → u/Material-Gift6823]

best base for trading without emotions

[u/LinoStar69 → u/Pretenderinchief]

Meh, -3% in 15 minutes is nothing. Back in 2021 it used to be -15 to -20% in 15 minutes lol

[u/Illustrious-Boss9356]

Everyone talking about Strategy recent buys underwater and the whole debt service issue thing...

Wouldn't it be genius for Strategy to quietly sell calls on BTC like say, 15% out of the money? The premiums could easily cover the debt/pref service (at least the current pay portion), AND if BTC actually went on a big run up, Saylor could sell Bitcoin to keep the price below strike until expiration.

Makes sense to me but I'm an idiot so probably doesn't work.

[u/jwz9904]

i thought the longs would have been flushed already

[u/Consistent-Beyond129]

With btc dom so less why aren’t the alts doing their own independent thing yet. Its crap ffs

[u/tesseramous → u/Consistent-Beyond129]

Why would altcoins ever do their own thing. They are only play ideas totally connected and subordinate to bitcoin and it has always been that way.

Also the bitcoin dominance is still very high at 57.5% which is 4 times bigger than the biggest altcoin

[u/AnusMistakus → u/Consistent-Beyond129]

too many trading bots, alt is just levered BTC

[u/piggleii]

From now till US market open, price will bleed as the shorts pile in anticipating a dump when America starts trading.

NFA

[u/Simke11 → u/piggleii]

Which they will because people love to panic sell.

[u/pref1Xed]

A whale reportedly dumped 24k BTC worth over 2.7 billion causing massive long liquidations.

As always the poor and middle class are at the mercy of rich shitheads with too much money and too much time. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure we will bounce back and I will hold but it seems like momentum has been lost temporarily. Very annoying...

[u/PeachScary413 → u/pref1Xed]

Yeah, that's the cover story they are running with.. what actually happened was that I bought 👆

[u/spirax919 → u/pref1Xed]

smart man he is

I'm sure we will bounce back

yeah....because those same whales you denounce will buy and drive up the price for you

[u/Simke11 → u/spirax919]

It's only manipulation when it goes down, when it goes up it's fundamentals and store of value.

[u/panthera_N → u/pref1Xed]

they will be the ones panic selling ETH and buying BTC when ETH/BTC ratio peaks and starts dropping to 0.02 🤣

[u/Olskoolah → u/pref1Xed]

I’m sure whale also took a short right before dumping knowing it was low volume weekend. Brilliant strategy but should be illegal.

[u/Tsjanith → u/pref1Xed]

But hey, at least it established strong momentum to the downside.

Silver linings and such

[u/DryMyBottom]

I guess the dip will be a lot deeper when burgers wake up

[u/VV88VDH → u/DryMyBottom]

Unironically I think they will save it today

[u/DryMyBottom → u/VV88VDH]

we can only hope 🤞🏻

[u/tesseramous → u/DryMyBottom]

Burgers?

[u/pumse1337 → u/tesseramous]

Hamburgers

[u/DryMyBottom → u/tesseramous]

yup 🇺🇸

[u/PovasTheOne]

WTF HAPPENED? Holy fuck i am so fucking tired of this fucking bullshit

[u/PeachScary413]

Guys.. is this alt season?

[u/piggleii → u/PeachScary413]

Seems like it. BTC dominance going down.

[u/DryMyBottom → u/PeachScary413]

ofc it is, as in… ALTered season 🙃

[u/devCheckingIn]

Where is everybody?

[u/ICE-FlGHT → u/devCheckingIn]

Apparently everyone, every algo and their mom are buying eth and selling btc. 🤷

[u/LinoStar69]

So no one here took profits at ATH ?

[u/GrapefruitOwn6261 → u/LinoStar69]

I’ve been selling btc since 104k. Not sold any alts since December 2024 though

[u/Simke11 → u/LinoStar69]

I kind of expected that level to hold for more than couple of hours

[u/Simke11]

This shit is hilarious

[u/bizaroo933]

This is what happens if market makers are allowed to manipulate the market like this without going to jail. Only thing I see this cycle how to liquidate longs and shorts, nothing else.

[u/CountGensler → u/bizaroo933]

lmao

[u/Glittering_Pick_9738 → u/bizaroo933]

true story. Crypto is becoming a joke. See-saw liquidations with zero overall growth (in most currencies).

[u/Captain_Fredl]

HEALTHY correction, thats all

[u/DryMyBottom → u/Captain_Fredl]

that’s a lot of… health

[u/ozera202 → u/Captain_Fredl]

How many more God dam healthy corrections you guys need to say , we barely increase to December levels ffs.

[u/Captain_Fredl]

Already lower than last friday. What a performance

[u/jwz9904 → u/Captain_Fredl]

surely we can't blame powell now

[u/Captain_Fredl]

Back to the scheduled programm before Powell speech🥳

[u/dirodvstw]

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I honestly think that these new highs Bitcoin had been making recently was just pricing in all the dollar devaluation. If you look at the EUR chart you can clearly see we haven’t moved from December/January highs… it’s sad, but it is what it is. Might really be in a double top scenario here, just like 2021. Hope not, but it’s getting closer to that day by day now.

[u/Baumpaladin → u/dirodvstw]

I pointed this out a handful of times. Looking at BTC/USD/EUR as a triangle will show you that in reality USD has been shitting itself over the past months.

USD/EUR went from around 1.02 at the start of the year to around 1.17 as of now. If you are a European and bought at the highs in December or January, you'd still be down like 15% after USD pairs reach their old highs.

[u/dirodvstw → u/Baumpaladin]

People that bought in January with USD are in profit while people that bought in EUR are still at a loss

[u/verysillyman]

Well, happy new ATH to ETH, aand it’s gone…

[u/DBRiMatt → u/verysillyman]

Did you take screenshot or profit?

[u/Beginning_Ad2169]

Honestly people that say buy and hold for a long time, only worked like half decade ago when prices were low or last bear market, when u buy in a bull run, it’s mental torture cuz gains can disappear all within a few hours

[u/Simke11 → u/Beginning_Ad2169]

It worked pretty well if you bought in '22, '23 and even parts of '24. That's certainly not half a decade ago.

[u/MarioWilson122 → u/Beginning_Ad2169]

Yeah this year it made more sense to just swing trade trying to hold is painful. Unless you are capable on looking at your portfolio every few weeks or months like i hear some do.

[u/kironet996 → u/MarioWilson122]

yeah, I sold my BTC and ETH already and switched to trading, now I don't give a crap which way it goes, I can always make money(following proper risk & money management ofc).

[u/Illustrious-Boss9356 → u/Beginning_Ad2169]

It also depends what your expectations are. A 15% gain over an entire year is an AMAZING return. Yet people here expect that shit weekly.

Cmon now. If you believe in the coin/token/nft then buy and hold it. Dollars are not becoming more valuable over a long term horizon. Be patient and stop whining.

[u/nagai → u/Illustrious-Boss9356]

Risk adjusted returns? 15% over a year is terrible if you're exposed to the risk associated with your average shit coin.

[u/Lagna85]

Crypto in this market cycle is all about how to best liquidate the longs and the shorts.

[u/solidstatepr8]

I've been wondering how much of an "alt season" there will really be with 30,000 new shitcoins per day flooding out of bucket shops like Solana these days. The whole market is diluted with this junk.

At least with the ICO era they had to come up with something at at least looked like a real business on paper to get people to invest. There were far, far fewer coins drawing attention. Now anyone with a nickle and zero knowledge can fire up some crypto garbage to feed the casino.

I dont really have a point but I've been thinking about it this last week or so. That said Ive been carrying Curve ecosystem baggage for years that I wouldn't mind seeing actually do something finally.

[u/Imaginary-Seaweed-29 → u/solidstatepr8]

feels like everyone who is trying to make this point is forgetting how much money was spread out between all sorts of shitty NFTs, crypto games, metaverses etc in 2021

the latter is less relevant now, this time there were probably more shitcoins with pump fun, next cycle it could be something else entirely

[u/solidstatepr8 → u/Imaginary-Seaweed-29]

Sure, as always no one knows the future. Ive no doubt the next NFT or Pumpfun hype will manifest somewhere as it always does.

[u/Imaginary-Seaweed-29 → u/solidstatepr8]

but yeah i guess the point was that the spreading out of money on shit isnt anything new and that it doesnt mean it would make an alt season weaker

[u/solidstatepr8 → u/Imaginary-Seaweed-29]

Genrally I'd agree, I guess my point was more that there has been an exponential increase in this stuff this time around without a similar surge in retailers to come buy it. 10s of thousands of crappy coins to gamble on means they're not coming to the "blue chips" probably, more established alts could be more suppressed than expected for a disappointing "season". Like say I don't have a big thesis or anything, just some idle thoughts.

[u/evm1989 → u/solidstatepr8]

I share your opinion about 'alt season' (i'm in crypto since 2016 btw). I had this thought already before this bull run and that's why I bought lots of ETH this time instead of more spread out in some alt coins.

I'm happy for all the alt coin holders if there is gonna be a alt season, but I just don't see it this time, because of your arguments. Most people are still down on their alt coins, who is gonna buy them?

[u/MichaelAischmann]

Hope the new week will bring us some green. Recovery after the flash crash has already started.

[u/Olskoolah]

I really thought Europe would save us (said nobody ever)

[u/slunksoma → u/Olskoolah]

Bank Holiday in the UK.

[u/Theredeemer08 → u/slunksoma]

UK has no influence on markets, its a joke economy

[u/PeachScary413]

WE ARE SOOO BACK

[u/0ld_0wl → u/PeachScary413]

Back to ramen.

[u/piggleii → u/PeachScary413]

how?

[u/DryMyBottom → u/PeachScary413]

…to wendy’s?

[u/e07f]

this is nuts

[u/Beginning_Ad2169]

Is it true that exchanges manipulate prices to liquidate longs/shorts?

[u/LinoStar69 → u/Beginning_Ad2169]

Exchanges make money with fees. They have the cheatcode to know where SL and liquidation are so ofc they do

[u/evm1989]

Already sold 60% now of my stack at good prices (ethereum). Like last week im happy i sold again, but still confident we will go higher again. Its crypto though so you never know, that’s why taking profit is important, or diamond hands and don’t look at the charts every day and hold a longer time.

[u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96]

Someone wants you to sell. If they wanted you to buy BTC would be at $150k+ and ETH at $6k+

[u/b1mm3rl1f3]

Highest weekly close, ever for ETH with $2.2B of shorts to be liq @ $5k. BTC to $117k soon

[u/kellzone]

Boy, this was predictable, huh?

[u/DryMyBottom]

are you buying the dip or waiting for a deeper dip?

asking for a friend 👀

[u/Imaginary-Seaweed-29 → u/DryMyBottom]

not buying but only because i already used enough fiat for btc this month

[u/jwz9904]

when will this stop?

[u/bizaroo933]

So ‘CME gap always needs to be filled’ is only if Bitcoin is above CME gap. If its below its CME gap it stays like that and doesnt need to be filled lol. Clown market

[u/kingjoeg]

Terrible crypto market, so disappointing

[u/MinimalGravitas]

Asset	24h	7d	30d	60d	90d	120d
BTC	-2.9%	-3.0%	-5.1%	+3.8%	+1.9%	+18.1%
ETH	-3.7%	+6.7%	+22.6%	+85.8%	+74.9%	+139.8%

BTC is not just down today, it's down on the week and the month.

ETH has not just performed better in dollar terms on every timescale since April, but in the last 4 months the value of ETH/BTC has more than doubled.

If the people you are listening to are only recently talking about how well ETH is doing then they aren't worth your time. The most important factor influencing how well you do in crypto is avoiding getting manipulated and 'psyoped' into making bad choices.

The 'seasons' changed months ago, if you didn't notice then I'd suggest you spend some time genuinely looking into your chosen sources of 'information' to figure out why.

[u/Consistent-Beyond129]

I am exhausted with these shenanigans. Its tiring. I just wanna be able to sleep ffs

[u/piggleii → u/Consistent-Beyond129]

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land

[u/Environmental_gobrrr]

this will follow with burgers dump?

[u/ivan971 → u/Environmental_gobrrr]

No, it will pump on US market open

[u/LivingTheTruths]

There’s literally no fresh longs left but its still flushing lmao

[u/jwz9904]

what a crazy sunday

[u/panthera_N]

I'm scared

[u/Odd-Astronomer-7969]

That was some alt season

[u/jwz9904 → u/Odd-Astronomer-7969]

the whale condemned ETH after it reached ATH

[u/dimi727]

Curious who sold .. the crash was scary not gonna lie.

Moving an asset under the lows of the last weeks within 8 minutes is crazy!

Let's see if it was Just a stupid wale (c'mon, sell OTC if you have that many coins) or if it was an insider before the Stock market follows tomorrow....

[u/Suspicious-Holiday42]

This bullrun is such a joke

[u/no_choice99 → u/Suspicious-Holiday42]

Wake me up when ETH does a x2 from its previous ATH and Algorand hits 3 usd again, then I'll say ''Ok, we're in a bull run''. Meanwhile we're in a bull s..t.

[u/whataboutbenson]

Jesus, you guys are babies. Absolutely pathetic.

[u/light_death-note]

Final Destination: Altseason

[u/Litsco → u/light_death-note]

“This time it’s personal”

[u/Captain_Fredl]

Next big liquidity cluster down is at 10.800$ and upward to 117.400$ levels. Guess where the market will be heading at market opening 🤭

[u/jwz9904 → u/Captain_Fredl]

when markets open we will be rescued

[u/mannone]

Im such a bad ”trader” with my playaccount, roundtripping profits all day 🫡

[u/Captain_Fredl]

Tbh im only down 15% overall in the last 30 days. Not that bad 🤣

[u/CryptographerNo9254]

Today dump is manipulation by exchanges. They liquidated longs for no reason so as those doing inside trading of shorting BTC and Ethereum can benefit.

[u/tesseramous → u/CryptographerNo9254]

Make sure to trade with your tinfoil hat and this wont happen

[u/Captain_Fredl → u/CryptographerNo9254]

It was dumped by binance

[u/pref1Xed → u/CryptographerNo9254]

Apparently a whale sold 24k bitcoin worth over 2.7 billion.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/CryptographerNo9254]

do you call it manipulation when crypto price increases, as well ?

[u/NuSk8]

Classic, wait till everyone buys in and then dump billions off it. Make the rich richer I’m sure they’ll find happiness soon

[u/Suspicious-Holiday42]

So August 2025 is the new november 2021

[u/bizaroo933]

Hahahaha. I have no words for this

[u/tesseramous]

How does a die-hard og bitcoin whale from 2011 who went through all the ups and downs of every cycle and already has enough money to be set for life as a billionaire suddenly wake up decide to dump bitcoin and pay taxes to go into high risk altcoin bets

[u/piggleii → u/tesseramous]

How do you know he's paying taxes?

[u/ThinCrusts → u/tesseramous]

Greeeeed baby

[u/tesseramous → u/ThinCrusts]

Ugh billionaires being greedy is so weird. If I had that kind of money I'd be so happy just to live a relaxed life off of what i had and turn the computer off and never look at another chart again.

[u/MichaelAischmann → u/tesseramous]

We don't know if the whale needs to pay taxes. Could be living in a tax haven.

Idk if I could sit on a billion & not cash out to enjoy my life.

After that, why not gamble a little on alts. Alt season is due after all.

[u/veegaz]

It's SO SO over 💀💀💀

[u/CGI_OCD → u/veegaz]

Omg so original!!!!....jfc

[u/Pretenderinchief]

Volatility is the theme for September. Tradfi and crypto will both experience it. Ready to ride the rollercoaster to Valhalla. (Or the local Wendy’s)

[u/SolanaToTheMooon]

It’s gonna be funny when BTC goes back down to 108k then runs back up to 140k after ETH its makes its run

[u/Tsjanith → u/SolanaToTheMooon]

Oh. Hilarious

[u/Consistent-Beyond129]

Oh yeah good ol’ slow bleed to death

[u/Tsjanith → u/Consistent-Beyond129]

I see no slow

[u/devCheckingIn]

So because some poopyhead sold his BTC -- and because a zillion bots sell off other assets when BTC moves down -- $70 bn got wiped off of crypto market cap in a few minutes.

[u/wotboisRevenge → u/devCheckingIn]

Sauce?

[u/CipherScarlatti → u/devCheckingIn]

It'll go back up.

[u/LivingTheTruths]

I used to advocate for bitcoin and eth. But after the volatility and randomly losing its shit I tell people to stay tf out if they can’t handle big price swins

[u/LinoStar69]

100k by Friday

[u/mallison945]

Yes,yes, move that sweet liquidity into alts

[u/wvutrip → u/mallison945]

Nothing moving into alts my man. Eth going to suck up all potential altcoin liquidity and kill alt season.

[u/pumse1337 → u/wvutrip]

eth up = totally fine

[u/piggleii]

It's a tragedy for me to see the green is over.

[u/FlanBackground4478]

Why dont we dump on whales rarher than whlaes dump on us

[u/kipha01 → u/FlanBackground4478]

The whales will win regardless