The thing is, the long-termers are up a lot in Fiat terms from last year still, and I find

it likely that they're going to be discount shopping like crazy.

I know that I spent my morning frantically working to find an exchange where I could

myself re-up.

If that's the case, and buyers come in and scoop these discounted assets to get to some

healthy-feeling levels, even if they're below what they were before. It could be that we look back in a few months and realize that bigger bull market

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What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, May 19th, and boy, oh boy. There are some days that you

remember for a long time in this industry.

Last year, we had Black Thursday, March 12th, where Bitcoin fell from above 11,000 all the way

touching down below 4,000. That was the COVID bottom, and of course, we started marching from

there. Now we have Wednesday, May 19th, the bloodbathening, and the question is, of course, we started marching from there. Now we have Wednesday, May 19th, the bloodbathening,

and the question is, of course, is this the end of the crypto bull market? Right now, I honestly

can't even tell how far down we are because every tracking app and every exchange website is

somewhere between offline and intermittent. Gas prices are through the roof as people try to

exit their positions. Liquidations have been massive and are still rolling in. There seems now to have been

a slight reprieve, but honestly, who knows? Because people were saying that last night as well.

So like I said, I think there are two questions on everyone's mind. The first is what the hell

cause this? The second is whether this is one of those

big bull market corrections before we rock it off to the moon, or a shift back to a bear market.

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