How To Make It Through The Crypto Pain
563: Strategies For Navigating The Crypto Bear Market
Afternoon all.
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Today we’re going to talk about the elephant in the room for global markets that most of us care about.
Crypto.
The last several days have been ugly for digital assets. Bitcoin has broken below key support levels and briefly traded into the low to mid $60,000s, while Ethereum has fallen back toward and below the $2,000 level.
Many of the higher beta altcoins have been hit even harder, with speculative names getting absolutely smoked as traders rush for the exits.
Though there are a few exceptions we will cover today.
As always in crypto, price declines have been amplified by excessive leverage and the arrival of institutions. More than $1.5 billion worth of positions have been liquidated across the market in roughly 24 hours, impacting over 200,000 traders.
Crypto markets have officially erased over $2 trillion in market cap since the record high seen in October 2025 (Kobeissi Letter).
Bitcoin and Ethereum alone accounted for well over $1 billion of the damage as forced selling cascaded through the system.
While the primary culprit of this dump eludes many, the suspected catalysts are familiar to most of us who have been around for a bit.
Persistent ETF outflows, renewed geopolitical tensions, macro uncertainty, and a broader risk off environment that has pushed capital toward cash, bonds, gold, and select AI equities. When fear enters the market, crypto is still the asset class that tends to get sold first and hardest, even if this has been going on for some time now.
Perhaps most importantly, sentiment has completely flipped.
I would describe it as horrific lol.
Just a few months ago investors were talking about institutional adoption, strategic reserves, and higher six figure Bitcoin targets. Today the conversation has shifted to liquidations, technical support levels, and whether a deeper correction is coming for our bags.
Today we are going to cover:
What is going on underneath the surface
Timelines for a potential recovery
Strategies for surviving these down periods
Bright spots in the chaos you need to pay attention to
This year marks my 8th year in crypto. While I am far from an expert I have seen quite a bit in my time and we have managed to get this publication to the top of the charts in the crypto section on Substack.
This is no small feat considering how many people and organizations write about crypto and publish their research online. Tens of thousands of you have continued to ride with us through uptrends and downtrends. We will prevail this time as well.
Crypto is not over. Bitcoin has not failed.
But, the current market is chewing people up alive and we can talk about some of the best ways for smartly navigating it so you can make it the other side.
What is going on underneath the surface
Shit looks dark for sure, Cardano’s founder basically said peace out, the selling isn’t stopping, and we have to watch equities chug higher and higher while our internet magic coins force us to eat McDonalds or 711 meat sticks for dinner.
According to data from CoinGecko, the cryptocurrency market currently sits at roughly $2.3 trillion in total value, down about 4% over the last 24 hours and roughly one-third below levels seen a year ago.
Pretty insane steady drop now for months.
Bitcoin remains the dominant force in the space (though dominance is shifting) with a market capitalization of approximately $1.3 trillion, accounting for nearly 56% of the entire crypto market.
Meanwhile, we have stablecoins that have grown into a massive asset class of their own, with a combined valuation of around $315 billion, representing close to 14% of all cryptocurrency market value and providing much of the liquidity that keeps the ecosystem functioning.
We started to go over some of the reasons for the constant selling last week but as a refresher: