#  @TheOtherParker_ Parker Parker posts on X about bitcoin, polymarket, if you, crypto the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1300496005755031552/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -62% - [--] Month [---------] +15,682% - [--] Months [---------] +2,621% - [--] Year [---------] +56,971% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1300496005755031552/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +96% - [--] Month [---] +244% - [--] Months [---] +240% - [--] Year [---] +2,600% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1300496005755031552/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +40% - [--] Month [-----] +530% - [--] Months [-----] +808% - [--] Year [-----] +15,282% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1300496005755031552/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) #3794 [finance](/list/finance) 34.95% [stocks](/list/stocks) 14.56% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) #6004 [financial services](/list/financial-services) 1.94% [countries](/list/countries) 1.94% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 1.94% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 0.97% [currencies](/list/currencies) 0.97% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.97% **Social topic influence** [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #1686, [polymarket](/topic/polymarket) 7.77%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 6.8%, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #2633, [solana](/topic/solana) #684, [in the](/topic/in-the) 5.83%, [gamma](/topic/gamma) #97, [liquidity](/topic/liquidity) #410, [$ibit](/topic/$ibit) #16, [$btc](/topic/$btc) #894 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@joequant](/creator/undefined) [@laurashin](/creator/undefined) [@theotherparker](/creator/undefined) [@milkroad](/creator/undefined) [@martypartymusic](/creator/undefined) [@defidevcorp](/creator/undefined) [@polymarket](/creator/undefined) [@kalyugenjoyer](/creator/undefined) [@breadmakerray](/creator/undefined) [@kalshi](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@factualman6404](/creator/undefined) [@krommufc](/creator/undefined) [@shaynecoplan](/creator/undefined) [@mansourtarek](/creator/undefined) [@luanalopeslara](/creator/undefined) [@hugomartingale](/creator/undefined) [@jrod1156](/creator/undefined) [@joeaxc](/creator/undefined) [@johnstonfredj](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [iShares BTC Trust (IBIT)](/topic/$ibit) [DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV)](/topic/$dfdv) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Bitcoin kept the lights on for hundreds of thousands of people. This is the future. Every grid needs a large contingency of bitcoin miners to serve as demand-response. The economics are approaching a level (and might already be there maybe @BitcoinPierre can weigh in) where it's cheaper to overbuild power + bitcoin miners than to build out giant natgas peaker plants to handle this type of power demand surge. This is just another facet of "Crypto in the background". Bitcoin and crypto are having an impact on people's lives without them even knowing about it. That's progress and success. When" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2017197851932274775) 2026-01-30T11:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Wow a whole hour. Come give it a listen if you want to hear the latest on $DFDV especially if you're a skeptic Masterclass: Understanding the Solana Treasury Model with Parker White (@TheOtherParker_) COO & CIO of @defidevcorp #sponsored https://t.co/KMSOoEoVru Masterclass: Understanding the Solana Treasury Model with Parker White (@TheOtherParker_) COO & CIO of @defidevcorp #sponsored https://t.co/KMSOoEoVru" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2018769980230406548) 2026-02-03T19:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "http://x.com/i/article/2019206344591699970 http://x.com/i/article/2019206344591699970" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019222408209789330) 2026-02-05T01:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The only logical explanation for crypto nuking is that Epstein didn't kill himself and actually isn't even dead and is blackmailing all the world's rich to short crypto to distract from the files being released" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019276825445429394) 2026-02-05T05:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I'm not a great price picker in the short term and am a terrible trader. I do like these levels for accumulating a little but could certainly go lower. I typically prefer to start accumulating slow at levels I like and then increase the pace of accumulation as a bottom pattern forms over the course of at least a month. Haven't seen that bottom pattern yet though. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019335252884484328 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019335252884484328" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019335252884484328) 2026-02-05T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I'm sure for the right size it can be facilitated. There's a reason Blackrock et al pushed for it so hard with Gensler when they launched and continued to push as soon as he was gone. Covered calls you'd be fine but shorting vol via a straddle or something akin would cause a problem" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019656642552614939) 2026-02-06T06:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When you sell a call the MM is now long a call and so they delta hedge by shorting the underlying. Since the MM is long both delta and gamma they increase their short position (sell more underlying) as the price rises. The more calls that are sold the more underlying short position required from the MM" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019658335763722573) 2026-02-06T06:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@krommufc I'm not too familiar with this theory. That wouldn't have any explanation for or impact on what happened today though. Could have contributed to the general weakness over the last [--] months if true" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019672083345879461) 2026-02-06T07:18Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements "@wassielawyer @j0nallen @RyanTheGentry Yes that's why we need to get all these assets onchain. I'm a huge RWA bull fwiw (check out $DFDVx - shameless plug). Going to be a awhile before DeFi has more liquidity than TradFi though. We need more DeFi market makers out there" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019673744361541780) 2026-02-06T07:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Appreciate the thoughts here. [--]. The in-kind isn't a lynchpin to this hypothesis but valid point nonetheless. May not have been a big contributing factor. [--]. I hear you but if it's a fund (not the one you're DDing) with a small number of employees they could keep it under wraps especially if their existence as a fund depended on it. Having the BTC options piece isolated (potentially) would mean the rest of the firm might be safe and could continue to operate but if word got out one of their funds blew up the firm might also be completely dead so very very high incentive to keep it quiet. 3." [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019777192591552655) 2026-02-06T14:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ThinkingUSD I think it's very likely that an options fund on IBIT blew things up. Maybe didn't start it (probably did though) but certainly accelerated the cascade since mid Jan or even earlier. https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019587226871447687 This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019587226871447687 This was the" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019786756196057318) 2026-02-06T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Polymarket @shayne_coplan or @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara how do we get a market going for which fund blew up Happy to provide some names in a DM. Resolution criteria would be a 13F filing before June [--] that shows xyz fund having an IBIT position greater than $250M that goes below $10M in a single quarter. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019797338332774477 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019797338332774477" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019797338332774477) 2026-02-06T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@HugoMartingale @Polymarket @shayne_coplan @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara Would prefer to share in a DM to avoid speculation here" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019801077546107267) 2026-02-06T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@HugoMartingale @Polymarket @shayne_coplan @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara DM sent" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019801498935279781) 2026-02-06T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AlanaDLevin Good parallel. I also think about May [----] as having a similar vibe although no bodies floated to the surface during that sharp pullback. The velocity in May [----] felt similar. Complete and total terror while equities ripped" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019815286833352843) 2026-02-06T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It definitely sucks to have to wait until May [--] for 13F filings for Q1. We might see some weird stuff on Feb [--] for Q4 but no guarantees that someone actually blew up trading IBIT on 10/10. 10/10 seemed to be a little more crypto-native driven than IBIT driven. Agreed can't wait for all of this to be on chain. This tradfi opacity is what caused the GFC and will continue to cause issues because market participants get spooked and don't know who's dead so everyone pulls back. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019827103324344556 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019827103324344556" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019827103324344556) 2026-02-06T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Isn't that just the USD value of the OI so as price collapsed OI would naturally collapses as well Seems like it would be much more smoothed denominated in BTC. Regardless maybe you're right that it was a long time coming and just a coincidence that Nasdaq asked to waive off the typical waiting period. Still seems fishy and really bad timing if just complete coincidence" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019842228768895178) 2026-02-06T18:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Wow that was fast @Polymarket https://polymarket.com/event/which-crypto-hedge-fund-blew-up https://polymarket.com/event/which-crypto-hedge-fund-blew-up" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019856986175860784) 2026-02-06T19:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "$SOL trading at a -100% annualized funding rate on Hyperliquid and $BTC at a -50%. Lots of shorts need to cover still" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019867110349107335) 2026-02-06T20:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@KO_Markets Glad you liked it. Obv contrived to fit the situation exactly but loose matches still create the situation" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019889103291273716) 2026-02-06T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Fwiw I definitely think USDe had something to do with the collapse on 10/10. The USDe pricing mechanism on Binance was the main factor there though causing massive liquidations in positions that otherwise should not have been liquidated. I don't think it went much beyond that mostly because that was absolutely a big enough issue to cause very real lasting problems if some funds were completely deleted due to the issue" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019973453559034210) 2026-02-07T03:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@hex0rbat Yessir. Hence the polymarket expirations" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020151409845715385) 2026-02-07T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Yeah @dgt10011 did misunderstand the [--] day point. Thanks for clarifying. My hypothesis isn't that a prime blew up it's that a fund blew up and the prime forced the liquidation. If you're a fund that has a giant hole (from 10/10) and a huge investor redemption request that could in theory kill the fund completely (few assets left or completely tarnished reputation for losing so much) you might do some crazy things to try to get out of the hole before being required to meet the redemption request from the LP. Story as old as time almost. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020182760443494421" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020182760443494421) 2026-02-07T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Crazy times. The firm I was at had a small allocation to LJMIX in client portfolios as part of our liquid alts sleeve. I actually did some of the DD on the firm. Probably the most chaotic week of my [--] years there as the previously very stable mutual fund was down 80% overnight. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020203235995430922 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020203235995430922" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020203235995430922) 2026-02-07T18:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@JRod1156 @HuobiGlobal Yes that is where the list for the Polymarket was gathered I believe" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020208554624573872) 2026-02-07T18:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Atlantisann It most certainly does work the other way around. Queue GME army" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020286569920504076) 2026-02-08T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@joequant @DoveyWan Could be a family office-type fund with only a few or no LPs yes. But also let's give it a few weeks to see if a body floats to the surface. They only just died on Thursday" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020328979002266002) 2026-02-08T02:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Good synopsis for the Korean audience although the silver and yen side of the equation are likely secondary but important details. Btw the Bithumb issue was hilariously bad timing but seemingly completely unrelated. 📉💥 [--] : [--] [-----] . [----] FTX . [--] : . BlackRock https://t.co/oT0ysQClLb 📉💥 [--] : [--] [-----] . [----] FTX . [--] : . BlackRock https://t.co/oT0ysQClLb" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020399184969605277) 2026-02-08T07:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@lax2yvr They absolutely can be yes. Long calls and long puts are safer bc there is defined downside (only what you paid to buy with). Generally speaking though DCA + Hodl + touch grass = Great Success" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020549860240634023) 2026-02-08T17:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Simple short straddles would be short gamma. Accumulator strategies (selling otm puts) popular in Asia are also short gamma. I know there were are some more exotic structured products floating around as well. There are so many different strategies that could be run though so impossible to say for sure. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020694454181753246 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020694454181753246" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020694454181753246) 2026-02-09T03:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@joequant There are a few that fit the bill but I only feel pretty confident about one. There could be others though" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020694958123229295) 2026-02-09T03:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@depressivehacks @laurashin As I was saying a month and a half ago yes. Will gladly admit I am wrong if we have a bear market for another [--] months. I don't thats going to happen unless equities puke" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021093693332259201) 2026-02-10T05:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I think it will take a few weeks to come out organically. Let's see what happens on the Polymarket. Re: the prime broker the fund(s) would still have to report via 13F if they held IBIT. The only way around the 13F would be holding a TRS instead of IBIT itself. I would have to imagine whoever had the issue isn't showing up to Consensus. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021245945577669104 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021245945577669104" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021245945577669104) 2026-02-10T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "RT @BitPaine: very interesting read" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021645516728328689) 2026-02-11T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "RT @TheOtherParker_: @futurenomics This is healthy actually. Every regulatory regime should undergo a complete overhaul every [--] years. Zer" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021743307911749835) 2026-02-12T00:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "WTF happened October [--] to February [--] Part [--] of the HK Fund Blow up. This is the other side of the story. BTC (-48.38%) underperformed the S&P [---] (+0.53%) by a whopping 49.05% in [---] days What the actual fuck. BTC was supposed to be rapidly institutionalizing but this is the largest multi-quarter depeg from the S&P [---] ever. And all with ZERO explanation. No cause only effect. There is always a cause though we just have to find it. Typically when a hedge fund blows up in catastrophic fashion the market isnt the killer its something - or someone - specific an actual killer. Amaranth Advisors" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020884199075434559) 2026-02-09T15:35Z [----] followers, 164.4K engagements "Bitcoin is Energy Money. @IterIntellectus Thats why I say the system wont use dollars as currency in the future. Just mass and energy. @IterIntellectus Thats why I say the system wont use dollars as currency in the future. Just mass and energy" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022317972287807524) 2026-02-13T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The ironic thing about the Jane Street SEBI case for market manipulation is that SEBI was tipped off when Jane Street sued Millennium for allegedly stealing the India options strategy. If Jane Street simply hadn't sued the strategy may have never been widely uncovered" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022328408362151943) 2026-02-13T15:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It's so over for Gold. Gold is "no longer actual gold" Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says. "Bitcoin outperformed gold by 5% in the first three hours of trading on Friday Feb 13th" 😂 Gold is "no longer actual gold" Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says. "Bitcoin outperformed gold by 5% in the first three hours of trading on Friday Feb 13th" 😂" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022386039747391678) 2026-02-13T19:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is super interesting actually. From Perplexity: "Under the Hong Kong SFC's Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds (which governs authorized hedge funds) the maximum interval between a properly documented redemption request and the payment of redemption money may not exceed [--] calendar days. This is a hard regulatory ceiling not a suggestion." So if the blow up occurred on the 10th-ish and then there was a big redemption request from the fund a few days later (maybe the 15th or shortly after) then the very last day this fund could have met the redemption request would have been Jan 15th or" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019611524872974676) 2026-02-06T03:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This whole event reminds me of another event from my past life in TradFi. Crazy enough it happened on Feb 5/6 [----] EXACTLY [--] years ago. VIX spiked 117% in one day marking on of the largest ever single day moves on the VIX ever. Ppl watching called it "vol-mageddon". One of the main culprits was a LJM Advisors who ran a liquid alternative mutual fund called "LJM Preservation and Growth Fund" ticker LJMIX. They weren't a large fund and had been in operation since [----] so were not inexperienced. The fund's strategy was to short vol via a variety of different options strategies on via SPX" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019794604741259760) 2026-02-06T15:25Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements "After talking to multiple folks I am much more convinced now that an HK-based fund who is a large holder of IBIT blew up. Moving from hypothesis to strong theory at this point. This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020517247132058010) 2026-02-08T15:17Z [----] followers, 32.8K engagements "@kalyugenjoyer @HyperliquidX Yeah and Solana et al" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020895215171592655) 2026-02-09T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@kalyugenjoyer Citadel Virtu etc. Need everyone trading in spot BTC not just IBIT and CME futures" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020895371728183767) 2026-02-09T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Buy when there's blood in the streets More breakdown. @TheOtherParker_ has been thoroughly reading the tea leaves on #Bitcoin vol recently and how its exposed to typical capital market mechanics. #HODL; now long even more $IBIT spot and related. More breakdown. @TheOtherParker_ has been thoroughly reading the tea leaves on #Bitcoin vol recently and how its exposed to typical capital market mechanics. #HODL; now long even more $IBIT spot and related" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020985785609224380) 2026-02-09T22:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yep [--] year cycle had nothing to do with it. Just a big boy making a big boy trade and winning bigly. Classic hedge fund on hedge fund action and we are the minnows caught in the crossfire between two sharks "This crash has nothing to do with the '4-year cycle'. It's the massive growth in BTC derivatives and a fund taking advantage of it" @TheOtherParker_ https://t.co/gNuh8qfmoE "This crash has nothing to do with the '4-year cycle'. It's the massive growth in BTC derivatives and a fund taking advantage of it" @TheOtherParker_ https://t.co/gNuh8qfmoE" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020989089093149038) 2026-02-09T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Huh now what is this" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021243678166069477) 2026-02-10T15:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@grok can you summarize this" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021244941243167151) 2026-02-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "From Grok (apparently slow today): - The post shares a July [----] Oxford Law blog on SEBI's interim order accusing Jane Street-linked entities of manipulating India's Bank Nifty index on [--] expiry days from 2023-2025 through timed stock/futures buys and sells to profit from short options positions. - SEBI deemed the trades a "deliberate device" distorting price discovery ordering a [----] crore ($554 million) escrow deposit and market bans which Jane Street met by July [--] [----] prompting partial restriction lifts. - The case signals heightened global scrutiny on algorithmic trading urging HFT" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021246239787057457) 2026-02-10T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Come join if any of these look interesting. Lots of great speakers to listen to in the background while you work. Think of this as Breakpoint without the travel" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021271592769122726) 2026-02-10T17:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Now in Japanese. Thanks @Yu_Ayato BTC IBITBlackRockBTC BTC IBITBlackRockBTC" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021379394980413734) 2026-02-11T00:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Once again dumping overnight with good sized candles on low volume. Options ex tomorrow. I wonder what's going to happen at the open" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021472956598321555) 2026-02-11T06:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Dumping will continue until there are no more longs to liquidate. If you're going levered long on Binance. Please stop. If you must have leverage but a DAT at least they can't get liquidated. Otherwise stay humble and stack to cold storage" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021488406019387859) 2026-02-11T07:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@BitTintin Well if you think about it a position is liquidated when it reaches 100x so when $1B is liquidated that's only $10M of capital transferred to the exchange. Kinda a surprisingly small amount" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021496367663939917) 2026-02-11T08:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Binance isn't special here bybit okx mexc etc all do the same thing. There are no rules against trading against your own customers so everyone needs to do it to survive. At a higher level though the liquidation levels are decently well known so anyone can realistically trade against them so I don't think Binance et al are so major culprits here. All the big funds trade against retail to relieve them from their over levered positions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021530211612033452 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021530211612033452" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021530211612033452) 2026-02-11T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I think we see the $59s (retest of the lows) on BTC. Let's see if we get a bounce there. If not down to the [---] wk" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021535661275439532) 2026-02-11T10:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Could openclaw single handedly monetize the [----] AI Capex spend The lobster is not slowing down much is it :D https://t.co/R1HylRCXHO The lobster is not slowing down much is it :D https://t.co/R1HylRCXHO" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021552602249564655) 2026-02-11T11:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Interestingly if you look at BTC / Nasdaq we are well below the [---] wk and are approaching the lows of [----] meaning you would have been better off just buying QQQ in [----] after FTX blew up instead of BTC. Feels very over stretched but these things can go on longer and go lower than we think. Staying long term and accumulating with spot not leverage is the only play here https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021560605132333348 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021560605132333348" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021560605132333348) 2026-02-11T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The financial advice given is short term (build a savings buffer). The only long term solution is to acquire something scarce. AI is ushering in the age of abundance. So you need to get some scarce. A unique skill will work. Easier though is a scarce asset. Bitcoin is the ultimate scarce asset. Solana is a one-of-a-kind network. You can acquire these now and lock in your slice of the future no matter what happens. These assets and networks aren't going away. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021568561010082011) 2026-02-11T12:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Some interesting call buying & put closing occurred yesterday for the 20th expiry - $120M of calls. Inflation and jobs come out on the 13th with @truflation showing a likely big deceleration in inflation. Someone seems to be betting on a pop from the releases but curious that the 20th was selected instead of the 13th. Gives some room over the weekend to push https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615212215058661 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615212215058661" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021615212215058661) 2026-02-11T16:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Lenders are the first to float to the surface then their counterparties show up. My guess is that at least one of their clients blew up and they couldn't liquidate them in time" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021643909143879899) 2026-02-11T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The main fix is more spot 24/7 liquidity on venues that are much tougher to manipulate either regulated in the US or better yet on chain where it's really tough to hide activity. 24/7 CME futures trading on BTC will be a big help. Clarity will be another help. Increasing liquidity on chain will help. It's a very solvable problem. In fact there's only a short window to exploit the problem hence the speed here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021652268127596976 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021652268127596976" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021652268127596976) 2026-02-11T18:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "STRC really is becoming a money market backed by BTC. So stable. Wow. Someone should launch a stablecoin backed by it. Just closed my $STRC trade. A nice 5.6% capital gain in [--] days. I could have waited to get the monthly dividend but wanted to rotate the profits into $MSTR. I will always buy STRC below $95 and ride it back to par. Easy money. https://t.co/CHFD6M9SfD Just closed my $STRC trade. A nice 5.6% capital gain in [--] days. I could have waited to get the monthly dividend but wanted to rotate the profits into $MSTR. I will always buy STRC below $95 and ride it back to par. Easy money." [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021659500613447753) 2026-02-11T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SonnysCrib True but I have to hope ppl aren't still exposed" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021729080929067305) 2026-02-11T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Uh wat The Fed is almost completely ignoring one of their mandates (full employment). Payroll gains for [----] have been revised down to +181k . in the full history of payroll data the only year that has been weaker when it comes to gains is [----] https://t.co/sIWgsxG483 Payroll gains for [----] have been revised down to +181k . in the full history of payroll data the only year that has been weaker when it comes to gains is [----] https://t.co/sIWgsxG483" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021729461759357384) 2026-02-11T23:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is healthy actually. Every regulatory regime should undergo a complete overhaul every [--] years. Zero-base budgeting style. Allows you to completely remove all the cruft that should no longer be there. Case-in-point the Investment Company Act of [----]. Why are we using a law that is [--] years old to regulate emerging investment vehicles On a related note though many pieces of regulation simply aren't needed once the activity is moved onchain and becomes transparent and easily auditable. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021743172125442347 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021743172125442347" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021743172125442347) 2026-02-12T00:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The "Big Bitcoin Short". Has a nice ring to it. The Bitcoin Big Short In this @Unchained_pod episode @TheOtherParker_ joins @laurashin to break down: 😬 How the Feb. [--] may be tied to a non-crypto Hong Kong fund 👀 Whether an OG bitcoiner is involved 🤔 Why the Hong Kong fund has not been discovered 🥲 How another fund The Bitcoin Big Short In this @Unchained_pod episode @TheOtherParker_ joins @laurashin to break down: 😬 How the Feb. [--] may be tied to a non-crypto Hong Kong fund 👀 Whether an OG bitcoiner is involved 🤔 Why the Hong Kong fund has not been discovered 🥲 How another fund" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021765700256464911) 2026-02-12T01:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@joshuawwy How did you calculate this" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021869041154195589) 2026-02-12T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Another interesting aspect to support the hypothesis is the realized volatility regime. This summer realized vol on $BTC (and $IBIT) completely collapsed to its absolute lowest levels on record. This was due to a massive short vol position built up in IBIT. Remember IBIT is the FOURTH most liquid options market in the world behind SPY QQQ and SPX Index options. That short vol position massively compressed the price which lowered volume and created a powder keg. Then on Oct [--] it completely blew up. If the fund(s) were shorting vol heavily (as any OG Bitcoiner looking to generate income on" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019623223675990366) 2026-02-06T04:04Z [----] followers, 43.6K engagements "@cryptonite_1 Every time a dummy blows up coins are transferred to smarter hands. It should get better with time. It's just that IBIT options with no cap (removed Jan [--] interestingly) were a nuclear weapon just handed to the apes with no guardrails" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019678124922069326) 2026-02-06T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@EricBalchunas @JSeyff How about on the odd timing around lifting the cap and getting the [--] day waiver" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019805081512915104) 2026-02-06T16:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@KO_Markets Maybe $250M or more. When you look at the balance sheet of some of these large funds that's chump change" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021006100544344510) 2026-02-09T23:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "TL;DR on this and the HK fund hypothesis: [--]. IBIT options and related OTC options are now FAR more liquid than spot BTC. [--]. Giant hedge fund figured out they could go short with derivatives in size and then push the price of spot down (dealers helping with delta hedging) to make big money on their options shorts. Rinse and repeat with bigger and bigger size as the trade became more profitable. [--]. HK-based hedge fund on the other side of the trade blew up on 02/05. Lots of other stuff going on as a confluence of factors/accelerants but this was the core of what happened. WTF happened October" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021598096682279119) 2026-02-11T14:52Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements "TL;DR on part 2: A hedge fund likely bought massive amounts of cheap short-dated IBIT puts when implied volatility was at historic lows in early October building leveraged downside exposure through exchange options and opaque OTC derivatives. They then pushed BTC spot prices down overnight and on weekends when liquidity was thinnest forcing options dealers to dump IBIT at the NY open to delta-hedge which cascaded the price further into their puts. This cycle repeated weekly (and later M/W/F after new expiries launched) with each leg down giving the fund more profits to roll into the next" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021602626430029962) 2026-02-11T15:10Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements "Not HK-based but if they are a lender who did they lend to. BLOCKFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client deposits and withdrawals citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-based firm which serves [----] institutional clients and handled $60 bn in [----] trading https://t.co/kK2BLQkE3t BLOCKFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client deposits and withdrawals citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-based firm which serves [----] institutional clients and" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021640742075314358) 2026-02-11T17:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@BaggerWalmart Part of our Treasury accelerator program. We've since gotten 100% of the SOL + staking rewards back along with some cash and zstk stock" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022313824414830739) 2026-02-13T14:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Factualman6404 I'm certainly not buying gold unless it's jewelry or maybe just enough for a gold-plated AK47 in the next bull market" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022464812819816617) 2026-02-14T00:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This year the Super Bowl had two half time shows effectively. What if there are more next year I would love to see my favorite metal core bands do a show. No more pop bs" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022469588664062335) 2026-02-14T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Here's how the Gamma Squeeze could have worked here. Just a made up example for those not familiar with Gamma Squeezes. Lets say its September [----]. Bitcoin is trading around $120k MSTR is buying DATs are doing well rates are starting to come down etc. Lots of bullish catalysts. You have a giant stack of BTC and want to generate some income. So you sell some WAY out of the money puts at $80k for [---] days out. No way BTC falls that far that fast. With ivol around 40% you make about 10% annualized on this trade if youre 10x levered. Maybe you also write similarly way OTM calls with the same" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019835623767724298) 2026-02-06T18:08Z [----] followers, 92.5K engagements "The cap being lifted goes both ways too btw. An army of Robinhood apes can pretty easily create a gamma squeeze to the upside especially if there are a bunch of panicked institutions on the other side that have been heavily shorting by buying puts. Anecdotally I have seen many signs of institutions buying significant downside protection via puts. The leads to the dealers being short gamma meaning every move is amplified because they have to sell to the downside and buy to the upside. You know what further amplifies this Long call buying by the WSB apes. And with the 25k contract cap limit. 5/" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019885561821991171) 2026-02-06T21:27Z [----] followers, 57.7K engagements "This is one of the least understood instruments in finance right now. If you want to find market mispricing go to where everyone is fudding or fomoing. DATs and STRC are being majorly fudded. Stretch Your Income To Eleven. $STRC https://t.co/CjzW5v3EfL Stretch Your Income To Eleven. $STRC https://t.co/CjzW5v3EfL" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022006065353961989) 2026-02-12T17:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This could easily backfire. The dynamics that we see on BTC right now could move to single stocks where lower liquidity overnight periods could have price pushes that lead to a gamma squeeze at the open. Things could get wild. BREAKING: CME Group to launch single stock futures this summer enabling leveraged long and short trading 24/5. BREAKING: CME Group to launch single stock futures this summer enabling leveraged long and short trading 24/5" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022006537900695981) 2026-02-12T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "RT @RichardByworth: @MikeYoumans35 @LukeGromen I think M2 liquidity is healthy. gold and Silver implying such. I subscribe to the fact that" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022010158692675824) 2026-02-12T18:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Tough week for risk assets $SOL and $DFDV. Geez My personal thesis on DFDV is this: [--]. Solana is going to go up bigly over the next decade at least to $10k because the world is going more digital (not less) and Solana is going to capture a huge slice of the global digital value transfer pie. [--]. A DAT that myself and my buddies/long time colleagues control (via voting) and own (20% of the common stock together) is by far the best way to grow my exposure to SOL. If we can hit [--] SPS by Dec [----] then I will be very very wealthy based on my current share count alone. My sincere hope is that" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/1989688586875379726) 2025-11-15T13:35Z [----] followers, 24K engagements "It's the weekend. Financial markets are all closed. Not crypto" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020349389194375281) 2026-02-08T04:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I thought crypto and blockchains had no use case Vegas did $130M on the Super Bowl. Prediction markets did $1.33B. 10x Vegas [--]. @Kalshi - $871M [--]. @Polymarket - $312M [--]. @opinionlabsxyz - $92M [--]. @predictdotfun - $31M [--]. @Novig - $19M [--]. @SX_Bet - $5M [--]. @Overtime_io - $443K Vegas did $130M on the Super Bowl. Prediction markets did $1.33B. 10x Vegas [--]. @Kalshi - $871M [--]. @Polymarket - $312M [--]. @opinionlabsxyz - $92M [--]. @predictdotfun - $31M [--]. @Novig - $19M [--]. @SX_Bet - $5M [--]. @Overtime_io - $443K" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022030193028947972) 2026-02-12T19:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally SOL trades with beta) + the relatively lower liquidations on CeFi exchanges this leads me to believe that the nexus of the problem lies with a large IBIT holder. IBIT has become the #1 venue for BTC options trading so my guess is that a hedge fund trading IBIT options is the culprit. If you look at the 13F filings for IBIT" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019587226871447687) 2026-02-06T01:41Z [----] followers, 2.1M engagements "Addition to the "HK Fund" hypothesis. I have a hunch that much of the "OG Bitcoiner Selling" this summer was actually not selling. On July [--] '25 the SEC finally allowed the Bitcoin ETFs to accept in-kind creation/redemption. This was a big point of contention when the ETFs originally launched under Gensler if you remember. One of the HUGE benefits to IBIT over native BTC is the liquid options market. IBIT has one of the most liquid options markets on the planet entirely dwarfing that of native BTC. In fact the IBIT options market is THE FOURTH most liquid options market on planet earth only" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019617960197849321) 2026-02-06T03:43Z [----] followers, 137.4K engagements "Kinda sus. Nasdaq requested that the SEC allow them to remove the options contract caps on the major BTC and ETH ETFs and requested that they do so immediately without the standard [--] day waiting period. The SEC obliged. The contract caps were removed on Jan [--]. $BTC went cliff diving on Jan [--]. Why the urgency by Nasdaq a very buttoned up organization that isn't typically in a rush especially with the crypto markets as weak as they were These guys aren't dumb to the massive leverage options can inject. Maybe one or more funds had already blown up and a prime broker was panic requesting this" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019681418314678713) 2026-02-06T07:55Z [----] followers, 284.2K engagements "Here's the Bitcoin IVOL (VIX for Bitcoin) falling prior to 10/10. Cheap vol = cheaper puts" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2020899499015594168) 2026-02-09T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "First the lender(s) float to the surface (Blockfills maybe others). Then the hedge funds float to the surface. In the last cycle Luna was the lender 3AC was the hedge fund. Then blockfi Celsius Voyager were the lenders and Alameda/FTX was the hedge fund. Fwiw I don't think we are talking anywhere near the same scale as last cycle. This is likely smaller and more contained. WTF happened October [--] to February [--] Part [--] of the HK Fund Blow up. This is the other side of the story. BTC (-48.38%) underperformed the S&P [---] (+0.53%) by a whopping 49.05% in [---] days What the actual fuck. BTC was" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021711090602717604) 2026-02-11T22:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Things are quite bleak. Remember what you are feeling is almost never unique. When you feel fear most everyone else is feeling fear. Emotions are this normal primal response to the events that a human experiences. So if you have an emotional response use that as a signal. It's how all non-pyscotic members of humanity are feeling. Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is [--]. Extreme Fear Current price: $67334 https://t.co/MXbPz2cTmf Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is [--]. Extreme Fear Current price: $67334 https://t.co/MXbPz2cTmf" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022008359055241243) 2026-02-12T18:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Agent Hackathon with @colosseum is super clever. I admire how quickly it was spun up. More importantly though I LOVE seeing the Solana community (and @SolanaFndn) support the latest trend in tech. We need more of this. Some might argue that this is just "crypto chasing AI bc crypto itself is dead." However I see it as "the Solana community experimenting with technology that could make the Solana economy better." Eventually everything will touch AI in some way so the faster the Solana economy can integrate it the better" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022016352308105527) 2026-02-12T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""THE SKY IS FALLING FOR BRICK AND MORTAR" Some of you may remember but back in early [----] the "online retail will kill brick a mortar" narrative was strong. Everyone got nuked in [----]. For example Walmart was down 37% Costco was down 24% Home Depot was down 21% peak to trough in [----]. Many many other names were nuked as well. Since the lows in [----] though Walmart is up 760% (crossing a $1T mkt cap) Costco is up 918% and Home Depot is up 434%. The Nasdaq [---] with heavy concentration of the fastest growth AI names on the planet is only up 545%. Many other names that fell in [----] didn't recover" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022083545557348511) 2026-02-12T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Maybe beating a dead horse at this point but great Q&A at the end of Breakout on the market meltdown. LIVE with @TheOtherParker_ - The Asian IBIT blow up thesis https://t.co/1BouhBUZjH LIVE with @TheOtherParker_ - The Asian IBIT blow up thesis https://t.co/1BouhBUZjH" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022132918055993598) 2026-02-13T02:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "CPI at 2.4% below expectations of 2.5%. Biggest contributor to increase was housing which we know is 2-3 months lagged relative to @truflation data. February and March inflation prints are likely to be very interesting" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022315286729535536) 2026-02-13T14:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "$1T in volume on VOO you say IBIT traders time to step up your game. Risk appetite has arguably never been stronger: The 10-day average of notional options volume on S&P [---] stocks is up $530 billion the highest in at least [--] years. This measures the total Dollar value of options contracts traded on individual S&P [---] stocks reflecting the https://t.co/ZIB7FXOewT Risk appetite has arguably never been stronger: The 10-day average of notional options volume on S&P [---] stocks is up $530 billion the highest in at least [--] years. This measures the total Dollar value of options contracts traded on" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022375803842105658) 2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Remember that feeling back in early October when it was SO obvious that Bitcoin was about to hit $200k and Solana was going to teleport to $500 Don't you wish you had sold then What is trading today on max excitement Mag [--] trading at ATH P/Es Gold and Silver Might be a good idea to take a little profits in those areas just in case. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022408435883749498 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022408435883749498" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022408435883749498) 2026-02-13T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Now do $DFDV Further capitulation on ASST today. Second day in a row with a solid drop while MSTR/BTC remain mostly flat. Liking the entry even more now. -6% on a -1% Bitcoin move. EV mNAV is now only at 6% premium and MC mNAV is now at 0.65x. 48% amplification of Bitcoin. Bitcoin move https://t.co/aLPzFiUoZH Further capitulation on ASST today. Second day in a row with a solid drop while MSTR/BTC remain mostly flat. Liking the entry even more now. -6% on a -1% Bitcoin move. EV mNAV is now only at 6% premium and MC mNAV is now at 0.65x. 48% amplification of Bitcoin. Bitcoin move" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2021955199401877945) 2026-02-12T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Pump up the jam Global Liquidity - China increases M2 by $1.26 trillion overnight - Feb 13th https://t.co/4SiiMk5uO2 Global Liquidity - China increases M2 by $1.26 trillion overnight - Feb 13th https://t.co/4SiiMk5uO2" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022349568168591637) 2026-02-13T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3 day market weekend coming. Max illiquidity. If a push was going to happen this month this would be the weekend to do it. Big negative gamma on Friday 20th meaning amplified volatility in either direction. Which way is the push going to be Lots of positioning to the downside such that the put profits will outweigh the call losses if prices are pushed down. But we don't know what the positioning in the OTC market looks like. Maybe it's time for a bounce on the back of lower inflation" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022397440834601188) 2026-02-13T19:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The crypto VC types have a confidence crisis right now. Some of them are bearish on crypto + leaving crypto because there are no new narratives that they can use to launch new tokens to dump on retail's head. These same VC types railed against memecoins because they "have no purpose" which is just VC speak for "we can't get early access to them so they have no purpose to us." Many of these VC types are abandoning crypto in a very vocal manner. Fantastic. Fuck em. Crypto no longer needs VC money. I'll say it again crypto no longer needs VC money. Let's stop venerating whiny bitch ass mfers." [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022727018669052256) 2026-02-14T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What will be the innovation that ignites the next bull market then Financial Products - same as it's always been. (Some call it Financial Engineering). This time though it will be centered around two key themes - (1) derivatives and (2) yield being offered to an increasingly wide range of investors across an ever expanding range of platforms e.g. DeFi crypto CeFi Fintech and now most importantly TradFi. The next marginal buyer of crypto will be TradFi. TradFi wants two key things: (1) more volatility (to trade or upside vol for long term asset allocatooors) and (2) more yield. They aren't" [X Link](https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2022727021122719985) 2026-02-14T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. 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@TheOtherParker_ ParkerParker posts on X about bitcoin, polymarket, if you, crypto the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence cryptocurrencies #3794 finance 34.95% stocks 14.56% exchanges #6004 financial services 1.94% countries 1.94% travel destinations 1.94% celebrities 0.97% currencies 0.97% technology brands 0.97%
Social topic influence bitcoin #1686, polymarket 7.77%, if you 6.8%, crypto #2633, solana #684, in the 5.83%, gamma #97, liquidity #410, $ibit #16, $btc #894
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @joequant @laurashin @theotherparker @milkroad @martypartymusic @defidevcorp @polymarket @kalyugenjoyer @breadmakerray @kalshi @grok @factualman6404 @krommufc @shaynecoplan @mansourtarek @luanalopeslara @hugomartingale @jrod1156 @joeaxc @johnstonfredj
Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Solana (SOL) iShares BTC Trust (IBIT) DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) BlackRock Inc (BLK)
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"Bitcoin kept the lights on for hundreds of thousands of people. This is the future. Every grid needs a large contingency of bitcoin miners to serve as demand-response. The economics are approaching a level (and might already be there maybe @BitcoinPierre can weigh in) where it's cheaper to overbuild power + bitcoin miners than to build out giant natgas peaker plants to handle this type of power demand surge. This is just another facet of "Crypto in the background". Bitcoin and crypto are having an impact on people's lives without them even knowing about it. That's progress and success. When"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Wow a whole hour. Come give it a listen if you want to hear the latest on $DFDV especially if you're a skeptic Masterclass: Understanding the Solana Treasury Model with Parker White (@TheOtherParker_) COO & CIO of @defidevcorp #sponsored https://t.co/KMSOoEoVru Masterclass: Understanding the Solana Treasury Model with Parker White (@TheOtherParker_) COO & CIO of @defidevcorp #sponsored https://t.co/KMSOoEoVru"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"http://x.com/i/article/2019206344591699970 http://x.com/i/article/2019206344591699970"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The only logical explanation for crypto nuking is that Epstein didn't kill himself and actually isn't even dead and is blackmailing all the world's rich to short crypto to distract from the files being released"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not a great price picker in the short term and am a terrible trader. I do like these levels for accumulating a little but could certainly go lower. I typically prefer to start accumulating slow at levels I like and then increase the pace of accumulation as a bottom pattern forms over the course of at least a month. Haven't seen that bottom pattern yet though. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019335252884484328 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019335252884484328"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I'm sure for the right size it can be facilitated. There's a reason Blackrock et al pushed for it so hard with Gensler when they launched and continued to push as soon as he was gone. Covered calls you'd be fine but shorting vol via a straddle or something akin would cause a problem"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When you sell a call the MM is now long a call and so they delta hedge by shorting the underlying. Since the MM is long both delta and gamma they increase their short position (sell more underlying) as the price rises. The more calls that are sold the more underlying short position required from the MM"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@krommufc I'm not too familiar with this theory. That wouldn't have any explanation for or impact on what happened today though. Could have contributed to the general weakness over the last [--] months if true"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:18Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements
"@wassielawyer @j0nallen @RyanTheGentry Yes that's why we need to get all these assets onchain. I'm a huge RWA bull fwiw (check out $DFDVx - shameless plug). Going to be a awhile before DeFi has more liquidity than TradFi though. We need more DeFi market makers out there"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Appreciate the thoughts here. [--]. The in-kind isn't a lynchpin to this hypothesis but valid point nonetheless. May not have been a big contributing factor. [--]. I hear you but if it's a fund (not the one you're DDing) with a small number of employees they could keep it under wraps especially if their existence as a fund depended on it. Having the BTC options piece isolated (potentially) would mean the rest of the firm might be safe and could continue to operate but if word got out one of their funds blew up the firm might also be completely dead so very very high incentive to keep it quiet. 3."
X Link 2026-02-06T14:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ThinkingUSD I think it's very likely that an options fund on IBIT blew things up. Maybe didn't start it (probably did though) but certainly accelerated the cascade since mid Jan or even earlier. https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019587226871447687 This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally https://x.com/TheOtherParker_/status/2019587226871447687 This was the"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Polymarket @shayne_coplan or @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara how do we get a market going for which fund blew up Happy to provide some names in a DM. Resolution criteria would be a 13F filing before June [--] that shows xyz fund having an IBIT position greater than $250M that goes below $10M in a single quarter. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019797338332774477 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019797338332774477"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@HugoMartingale @Polymarket @shayne_coplan @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara Would prefer to share in a DM to avoid speculation here"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@HugoMartingale @Polymarket @shayne_coplan @Kalshi @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara DM sent"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AlanaDLevin Good parallel. I also think about May [----] as having a similar vibe although no bodies floated to the surface during that sharp pullback. The velocity in May [----] felt similar. Complete and total terror while equities ripped"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It definitely sucks to have to wait until May [--] for 13F filings for Q1. We might see some weird stuff on Feb [--] for Q4 but no guarantees that someone actually blew up trading IBIT on 10/10. 10/10 seemed to be a little more crypto-native driven than IBIT driven. Agreed can't wait for all of this to be on chain. This tradfi opacity is what caused the GFC and will continue to cause issues because market participants get spooked and don't know who's dead so everyone pulls back. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019827103324344556 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019827103324344556"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Isn't that just the USD value of the OI so as price collapsed OI would naturally collapses as well Seems like it would be much more smoothed denominated in BTC. Regardless maybe you're right that it was a long time coming and just a coincidence that Nasdaq asked to waive off the typical waiting period. Still seems fishy and really bad timing if just complete coincidence"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wow that was fast @Polymarket https://polymarket.com/event/which-crypto-hedge-fund-blew-up https://polymarket.com/event/which-crypto-hedge-fund-blew-up"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"$SOL trading at a -100% annualized funding rate on Hyperliquid and $BTC at a -50%. Lots of shorts need to cover still"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@KO_Markets Glad you liked it. Obv contrived to fit the situation exactly but loose matches still create the situation"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Fwiw I definitely think USDe had something to do with the collapse on 10/10. The USDe pricing mechanism on Binance was the main factor there though causing massive liquidations in positions that otherwise should not have been liquidated. I don't think it went much beyond that mostly because that was absolutely a big enough issue to cause very real lasting problems if some funds were completely deleted due to the issue"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@hex0rbat Yessir. Hence the polymarket expirations"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yeah @dgt10011 did misunderstand the [--] day point. Thanks for clarifying. My hypothesis isn't that a prime blew up it's that a fund blew up and the prime forced the liquidation. If you're a fund that has a giant hole (from 10/10) and a huge investor redemption request that could in theory kill the fund completely (few assets left or completely tarnished reputation for losing so much) you might do some crazy things to try to get out of the hole before being required to meet the redemption request from the LP. Story as old as time almost. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020182760443494421"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Crazy times. The firm I was at had a small allocation to LJMIX in client portfolios as part of our liquid alts sleeve. I actually did some of the DD on the firm. Probably the most chaotic week of my [--] years there as the previously very stable mutual fund was down 80% overnight. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020203235995430922 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020203235995430922"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@JRod1156 @HuobiGlobal Yes that is where the list for the Polymarket was gathered I believe"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Atlantisann It most certainly does work the other way around. Queue GME army"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@joequant @DoveyWan Could be a family office-type fund with only a few or no LPs yes. But also let's give it a few weeks to see if a body floats to the surface. They only just died on Thursday"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Good synopsis for the Korean audience although the silver and yen side of the equation are likely secondary but important details. Btw the Bithumb issue was hilariously bad timing but seemingly completely unrelated. 📉💥 [--] : [--] [-----] . [----] FTX . [--] : . BlackRock https://t.co/oT0ysQClLb 📉💥 [--] : [--] [-----] . [----] FTX . [--] : . BlackRock https://t.co/oT0ysQClLb"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lax2yvr They absolutely can be yes. Long calls and long puts are safer bc there is defined downside (only what you paid to buy with). Generally speaking though DCA + Hodl + touch grass = Great Success"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Simple short straddles would be short gamma. Accumulator strategies (selling otm puts) popular in Asia are also short gamma. I know there were are some more exotic structured products floating around as well. There are so many different strategies that could be run though so impossible to say for sure. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020694454181753246 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020694454181753246"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@joequant There are a few that fit the bill but I only feel pretty confident about one. There could be others though"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@depressivehacks @laurashin As I was saying a month and a half ago yes. Will gladly admit I am wrong if we have a bear market for another [--] months. I don't thats going to happen unless equities puke"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I think it will take a few weeks to come out organically. Let's see what happens on the Polymarket. Re: the prime broker the fund(s) would still have to report via 13F if they held IBIT. The only way around the 13F would be holding a TRS instead of IBIT itself. I would have to imagine whoever had the issue isn't showing up to Consensus. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021245945577669104 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021245945577669104"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @BitPaine: very interesting read"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @TheOtherParker_: @futurenomics This is healthy actually. Every regulatory regime should undergo a complete overhaul every [--] years. Zer"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"WTF happened October [--] to February [--] Part [--] of the HK Fund Blow up. This is the other side of the story. BTC (-48.38%) underperformed the S&P [---] (+0.53%) by a whopping 49.05% in [---] days What the actual fuck. BTC was supposed to be rapidly institutionalizing but this is the largest multi-quarter depeg from the S&P [---] ever. And all with ZERO explanation. No cause only effect. There is always a cause though we just have to find it. Typically when a hedge fund blows up in catastrophic fashion the market isnt the killer its something - or someone - specific an actual killer. Amaranth Advisors"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:35Z [----] followers, 164.4K engagements
"Bitcoin is Energy Money. @IterIntellectus Thats why I say the system wont use dollars as currency in the future. Just mass and energy. @IterIntellectus Thats why I say the system wont use dollars as currency in the future. Just mass and energy"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The ironic thing about the Jane Street SEBI case for market manipulation is that SEBI was tipped off when Jane Street sued Millennium for allegedly stealing the India options strategy. If Jane Street simply hadn't sued the strategy may have never been widely uncovered"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's so over for Gold. Gold is "no longer actual gold" Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says. "Bitcoin outperformed gold by 5% in the first three hours of trading on Friday Feb 13th" 😂 Gold is "no longer actual gold" Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says. "Bitcoin outperformed gold by 5% in the first three hours of trading on Friday Feb 13th" 😂"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is super interesting actually. From Perplexity: "Under the Hong Kong SFC's Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds (which governs authorized hedge funds) the maximum interval between a properly documented redemption request and the payment of redemption money may not exceed [--] calendar days. This is a hard regulatory ceiling not a suggestion." So if the blow up occurred on the 10th-ish and then there was a big redemption request from the fund a few days later (maybe the 15th or shortly after) then the very last day this fund could have met the redemption request would have been Jan 15th or"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This whole event reminds me of another event from my past life in TradFi. Crazy enough it happened on Feb 5/6 [----] EXACTLY [--] years ago. VIX spiked 117% in one day marking on of the largest ever single day moves on the VIX ever. Ppl watching called it "vol-mageddon". One of the main culprits was a LJM Advisors who ran a liquid alternative mutual fund called "LJM Preservation and Growth Fund" ticker LJMIX. They weren't a large fund and had been in operation since [----] so were not inexperienced. The fund's strategy was to short vol via a variety of different options strategies on via SPX"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:25Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements
"After talking to multiple folks I am much more convinced now that an HK-based fund who is a large holder of IBIT blew up. Moving from hypothesis to strong theory at this point. This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:17Z [----] followers, 32.8K engagements
"@kalyugenjoyer @HyperliquidX Yeah and Solana et al"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@kalyugenjoyer Citadel Virtu etc. Need everyone trading in spot BTC not just IBIT and CME futures"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Buy when there's blood in the streets More breakdown. @TheOtherParker_ has been thoroughly reading the tea leaves on #Bitcoin vol recently and how its exposed to typical capital market mechanics. #HODL; now long even more $IBIT spot and related. More breakdown. @TheOtherParker_ has been thoroughly reading the tea leaves on #Bitcoin vol recently and how its exposed to typical capital market mechanics. #HODL; now long even more $IBIT spot and related"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yep [--] year cycle had nothing to do with it. Just a big boy making a big boy trade and winning bigly. Classic hedge fund on hedge fund action and we are the minnows caught in the crossfire between two sharks "This crash has nothing to do with the '4-year cycle'. It's the massive growth in BTC derivatives and a fund taking advantage of it" @TheOtherParker_ https://t.co/gNuh8qfmoE "This crash has nothing to do with the '4-year cycle'. It's the massive growth in BTC derivatives and a fund taking advantage of it" @TheOtherParker_ https://t.co/gNuh8qfmoE"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Huh now what is this"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@grok can you summarize this"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"From Grok (apparently slow today): - The post shares a July [----] Oxford Law blog on SEBI's interim order accusing Jane Street-linked entities of manipulating India's Bank Nifty index on [--] expiry days from 2023-2025 through timed stock/futures buys and sells to profit from short options positions. - SEBI deemed the trades a "deliberate device" distorting price discovery ordering a [----] crore ($554 million) escrow deposit and market bans which Jane Street met by July [--] [----] prompting partial restriction lifts. - The case signals heightened global scrutiny on algorithmic trading urging HFT"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Come join if any of these look interesting. Lots of great speakers to listen to in the background while you work. Think of this as Breakpoint without the travel"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Now in Japanese. Thanks @Yu_Ayato BTC IBITBlackRockBTC BTC IBITBlackRockBTC"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Once again dumping overnight with good sized candles on low volume. Options ex tomorrow. I wonder what's going to happen at the open"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dumping will continue until there are no more longs to liquidate. If you're going levered long on Binance. Please stop. If you must have leverage but a DAT at least they can't get liquidated. Otherwise stay humble and stack to cold storage"
X Link 2026-02-11T07:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BitTintin Well if you think about it a position is liquidated when it reaches 100x so when $1B is liquidated that's only $10M of capital transferred to the exchange. Kinda a surprisingly small amount"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Binance isn't special here bybit okx mexc etc all do the same thing. There are no rules against trading against your own customers so everyone needs to do it to survive. At a higher level though the liquidation levels are decently well known so anyone can realistically trade against them so I don't think Binance et al are so major culprits here. All the big funds trade against retail to relieve them from their over levered positions. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021530211612033452 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021530211612033452"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I think we see the $59s (retest of the lows) on BTC. Let's see if we get a bounce there. If not down to the [---] wk"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Could openclaw single handedly monetize the [----] AI Capex spend The lobster is not slowing down much is it :D https://t.co/R1HylRCXHO The lobster is not slowing down much is it :D https://t.co/R1HylRCXHO"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Interestingly if you look at BTC / Nasdaq we are well below the [---] wk and are approaching the lows of [----] meaning you would have been better off just buying QQQ in [----] after FTX blew up instead of BTC. Feels very over stretched but these things can go on longer and go lower than we think. Staying long term and accumulating with spot not leverage is the only play here https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021560605132333348 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021560605132333348"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The financial advice given is short term (build a savings buffer). The only long term solution is to acquire something scarce. AI is ushering in the age of abundance. So you need to get some scarce. A unique skill will work. Easier though is a scarce asset. Bitcoin is the ultimate scarce asset. Solana is a one-of-a-kind network. You can acquire these now and lock in your slice of the future no matter what happens. These assets and networks aren't going away. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some interesting call buying & put closing occurred yesterday for the 20th expiry - $120M of calls. Inflation and jobs come out on the 13th with @truflation showing a likely big deceleration in inflation. Someone seems to be betting on a pop from the releases but curious that the 20th was selected instead of the 13th. Gives some room over the weekend to push https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615212215058661 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615212215058661"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lenders are the first to float to the surface then their counterparties show up. My guess is that at least one of their clients blew up and they couldn't liquidate them in time"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The main fix is more spot 24/7 liquidity on venues that are much tougher to manipulate either regulated in the US or better yet on chain where it's really tough to hide activity. 24/7 CME futures trading on BTC will be a big help. Clarity will be another help. Increasing liquidity on chain will help. It's a very solvable problem. In fact there's only a short window to exploit the problem hence the speed here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021652268127596976 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021652268127596976"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"STRC really is becoming a money market backed by BTC. So stable. Wow. Someone should launch a stablecoin backed by it. Just closed my $STRC trade. A nice 5.6% capital gain in [--] days. I could have waited to get the monthly dividend but wanted to rotate the profits into $MSTR. I will always buy STRC below $95 and ride it back to par. Easy money. https://t.co/CHFD6M9SfD Just closed my $STRC trade. A nice 5.6% capital gain in [--] days. I could have waited to get the monthly dividend but wanted to rotate the profits into $MSTR. I will always buy STRC below $95 and ride it back to par. Easy money."
X Link 2026-02-11T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SonnysCrib True but I have to hope ppl aren't still exposed"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Uh wat The Fed is almost completely ignoring one of their mandates (full employment). Payroll gains for [----] have been revised down to +181k . in the full history of payroll data the only year that has been weaker when it comes to gains is [----] https://t.co/sIWgsxG483 Payroll gains for [----] have been revised down to +181k . in the full history of payroll data the only year that has been weaker when it comes to gains is [----] https://t.co/sIWgsxG483"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is healthy actually. Every regulatory regime should undergo a complete overhaul every [--] years. Zero-base budgeting style. Allows you to completely remove all the cruft that should no longer be there. Case-in-point the Investment Company Act of [----]. Why are we using a law that is [--] years old to regulate emerging investment vehicles On a related note though many pieces of regulation simply aren't needed once the activity is moved onchain and becomes transparent and easily auditable. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021743172125442347 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021743172125442347"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The "Big Bitcoin Short". Has a nice ring to it. The Bitcoin Big Short In this @Unchained_pod episode @TheOtherParker_ joins @laurashin to break down: 😬 How the Feb. [--] may be tied to a non-crypto Hong Kong fund 👀 Whether an OG bitcoiner is involved 🤔 Why the Hong Kong fund has not been discovered 🥲 How another fund The Bitcoin Big Short In this @Unchained_pod episode @TheOtherParker_ joins @laurashin to break down: 😬 How the Feb. [--] may be tied to a non-crypto Hong Kong fund 👀 Whether an OG bitcoiner is involved 🤔 Why the Hong Kong fund has not been discovered 🥲 How another fund"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@joshuawwy How did you calculate this"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Another interesting aspect to support the hypothesis is the realized volatility regime. This summer realized vol on $BTC (and $IBIT) completely collapsed to its absolute lowest levels on record. This was due to a massive short vol position built up in IBIT. Remember IBIT is the FOURTH most liquid options market in the world behind SPY QQQ and SPX Index options. That short vol position massively compressed the price which lowered volume and created a powder keg. Then on Oct [--] it completely blew up. If the fund(s) were shorting vol heavily (as any OG Bitcoiner looking to generate income on"
X Link 2026-02-06T04:04Z [----] followers, 43.6K engagements
"@cryptonite_1 Every time a dummy blows up coins are transferred to smarter hands. It should get better with time. It's just that IBIT options with no cap (removed Jan [--] interestingly) were a nuclear weapon just handed to the apes with no guardrails"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@EricBalchunas @JSeyff How about on the odd timing around lifting the cap and getting the [--] day waiver"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@KO_Markets Maybe $250M or more. When you look at the balance sheet of some of these large funds that's chump change"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"TL;DR on this and the HK fund hypothesis: [--]. IBIT options and related OTC options are now FAR more liquid than spot BTC. [--]. Giant hedge fund figured out they could go short with derivatives in size and then push the price of spot down (dealers helping with delta hedging) to make big money on their options shorts. Rinse and repeat with bigger and bigger size as the trade became more profitable. [--]. HK-based hedge fund on the other side of the trade blew up on 02/05. Lots of other stuff going on as a confluence of factors/accelerants but this was the core of what happened. WTF happened October"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:52Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements
"TL;DR on part 2: A hedge fund likely bought massive amounts of cheap short-dated IBIT puts when implied volatility was at historic lows in early October building leveraged downside exposure through exchange options and opaque OTC derivatives. They then pushed BTC spot prices down overnight and on weekends when liquidity was thinnest forcing options dealers to dump IBIT at the NY open to delta-hedge which cascaded the price further into their puts. This cycle repeated weekly (and later M/W/F after new expiries launched) with each leg down giving the fund more profits to roll into the next"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:10Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements
"Not HK-based but if they are a lender who did they lend to. BLOCKFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client deposits and withdrawals citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-based firm which serves [----] institutional clients and handled $60 bn in [----] trading https://t.co/kK2BLQkE3t BLOCKFILLS HALTS WITHDRAWALS AMID CRYPTO TURMOIL Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills has suspended client deposits and withdrawals citing recent market volatility. The Chicago-based firm which serves [----] institutional clients and"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BaggerWalmart Part of our Treasury accelerator program. We've since gotten 100% of the SOL + staking rewards back along with some cash and zstk stock"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Factualman6404 I'm certainly not buying gold unless it's jewelry or maybe just enough for a gold-plated AK47 in the next bull market"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This year the Super Bowl had two half time shows effectively. What if there are more next year I would love to see my favorite metal core bands do a show. No more pop bs"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here's how the Gamma Squeeze could have worked here. Just a made up example for those not familiar with Gamma Squeezes. Lets say its September [----]. Bitcoin is trading around $120k MSTR is buying DATs are doing well rates are starting to come down etc. Lots of bullish catalysts. You have a giant stack of BTC and want to generate some income. So you sell some WAY out of the money puts at $80k for [---] days out. No way BTC falls that far that fast. With ivol around 40% you make about 10% annualized on this trade if youre 10x levered. Maybe you also write similarly way OTM calls with the same"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:08Z [----] followers, 92.5K engagements
"The cap being lifted goes both ways too btw. An army of Robinhood apes can pretty easily create a gamma squeeze to the upside especially if there are a bunch of panicked institutions on the other side that have been heavily shorting by buying puts. Anecdotally I have seen many signs of institutions buying significant downside protection via puts. The leads to the dealers being short gamma meaning every move is amplified because they have to sell to the downside and buy to the upside. You know what further amplifies this Long call buying by the WSB apes. And with the 25k contract cap limit. 5/"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:27Z [----] followers, 57.7K engagements
"This is one of the least understood instruments in finance right now. If you want to find market mispricing go to where everyone is fudding or fomoing. DATs and STRC are being majorly fudded. Stretch Your Income To Eleven. $STRC https://t.co/CjzW5v3EfL Stretch Your Income To Eleven. $STRC https://t.co/CjzW5v3EfL"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This could easily backfire. The dynamics that we see on BTC right now could move to single stocks where lower liquidity overnight periods could have price pushes that lead to a gamma squeeze at the open. Things could get wild. BREAKING: CME Group to launch single stock futures this summer enabling leveraged long and short trading 24/5. BREAKING: CME Group to launch single stock futures this summer enabling leveraged long and short trading 24/5"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @RichardByworth: @MikeYoumans35 @LukeGromen I think M2 liquidity is healthy. gold and Silver implying such. I subscribe to the fact that"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Tough week for risk assets $SOL and $DFDV. Geez My personal thesis on DFDV is this: [--]. Solana is going to go up bigly over the next decade at least to $10k because the world is going more digital (not less) and Solana is going to capture a huge slice of the global digital value transfer pie. [--]. A DAT that myself and my buddies/long time colleagues control (via voting) and own (20% of the common stock together) is by far the best way to grow my exposure to SOL. If we can hit [--] SPS by Dec [----] then I will be very very wealthy based on my current share count alone. My sincere hope is that"
X Link 2025-11-15T13:35Z [----] followers, 24K engagements
"It's the weekend. Financial markets are all closed. Not crypto"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I thought crypto and blockchains had no use case Vegas did $130M on the Super Bowl. Prediction markets did $1.33B. 10x Vegas [--]. @Kalshi - $871M [--]. @Polymarket - $312M [--]. @opinionlabsxyz - $92M [--]. @predictdotfun - $31M [--]. @Novig - $19M [--]. @SX_Bet - $5M [--]. @Overtime_io - $443K Vegas did $130M on the Super Bowl. Prediction markets did $1.33B. 10x Vegas [--]. @Kalshi - $871M [--]. @Polymarket - $312M [--]. @opinionlabsxyz - $92M [--]. @predictdotfun - $31M [--]. @Novig - $19M [--]. @SX_Bet - $5M [--]. @Overtime_io - $443K"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This was the highest volume day on $IBIT ever by a factor of nearly 2x trading $10.7B today. Additionally roughly $900M in options premiums were traded today also the highest ever for IBIT. Given these facts and the way $BTC and $SOL traded down in lockstep today (normally SOL trades with beta) + the relatively lower liquidations on CeFi exchanges this leads me to believe that the nexus of the problem lies with a large IBIT holder. IBIT has become the #1 venue for BTC options trading so my guess is that a hedge fund trading IBIT options is the culprit. If you look at the 13F filings for IBIT"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:41Z [----] followers, 2.1M engagements
"Addition to the "HK Fund" hypothesis. I have a hunch that much of the "OG Bitcoiner Selling" this summer was actually not selling. On July [--] '25 the SEC finally allowed the Bitcoin ETFs to accept in-kind creation/redemption. This was a big point of contention when the ETFs originally launched under Gensler if you remember. One of the HUGE benefits to IBIT over native BTC is the liquid options market. IBIT has one of the most liquid options markets on the planet entirely dwarfing that of native BTC. In fact the IBIT options market is THE FOURTH most liquid options market on planet earth only"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:43Z [----] followers, 137.4K engagements
"Kinda sus. Nasdaq requested that the SEC allow them to remove the options contract caps on the major BTC and ETH ETFs and requested that they do so immediately without the standard [--] day waiting period. The SEC obliged. The contract caps were removed on Jan [--]. $BTC went cliff diving on Jan [--]. Why the urgency by Nasdaq a very buttoned up organization that isn't typically in a rush especially with the crypto markets as weak as they were These guys aren't dumb to the massive leverage options can inject. Maybe one or more funds had already blown up and a prime broker was panic requesting this"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:55Z [----] followers, 284.2K engagements
"Here's the Bitcoin IVOL (VIX for Bitcoin) falling prior to 10/10. Cheap vol = cheaper puts"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"First the lender(s) float to the surface (Blockfills maybe others). Then the hedge funds float to the surface. In the last cycle Luna was the lender 3AC was the hedge fund. Then blockfi Celsius Voyager were the lenders and Alameda/FTX was the hedge fund. Fwiw I don't think we are talking anywhere near the same scale as last cycle. This is likely smaller and more contained. WTF happened October [--] to February [--] Part [--] of the HK Fund Blow up. This is the other side of the story. BTC (-48.38%) underperformed the S&P [---] (+0.53%) by a whopping 49.05% in [---] days What the actual fuck. BTC was"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Things are quite bleak. Remember what you are feeling is almost never unique. When you feel fear most everyone else is feeling fear. Emotions are this normal primal response to the events that a human experiences. So if you have an emotional response use that as a signal. It's how all non-pyscotic members of humanity are feeling. Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is [--]. Extreme Fear Current price: $67334 https://t.co/MXbPz2cTmf Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is [--]. Extreme Fear Current price: $67334 https://t.co/MXbPz2cTmf"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Agent Hackathon with @colosseum is super clever. I admire how quickly it was spun up. More importantly though I LOVE seeing the Solana community (and @SolanaFndn) support the latest trend in tech. We need more of this. Some might argue that this is just "crypto chasing AI bc crypto itself is dead." However I see it as "the Solana community experimenting with technology that could make the Solana economy better." Eventually everything will touch AI in some way so the faster the Solana economy can integrate it the better"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""THE SKY IS FALLING FOR BRICK AND MORTAR" Some of you may remember but back in early [----] the "online retail will kill brick a mortar" narrative was strong. Everyone got nuked in [----]. For example Walmart was down 37% Costco was down 24% Home Depot was down 21% peak to trough in [----]. Many many other names were nuked as well. Since the lows in [----] though Walmart is up 760% (crossing a $1T mkt cap) Costco is up 918% and Home Depot is up 434%. The Nasdaq [---] with heavy concentration of the fastest growth AI names on the planet is only up 545%. Many other names that fell in [----] didn't recover"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe beating a dead horse at this point but great Q&A at the end of Breakout on the market meltdown. LIVE with @TheOtherParker_ - The Asian IBIT blow up thesis https://t.co/1BouhBUZjH LIVE with @TheOtherParker_ - The Asian IBIT blow up thesis https://t.co/1BouhBUZjH"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CPI at 2.4% below expectations of 2.5%. Biggest contributor to increase was housing which we know is 2-3 months lagged relative to @truflation data. February and March inflation prints are likely to be very interesting"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"$1T in volume on VOO you say IBIT traders time to step up your game. Risk appetite has arguably never been stronger: The 10-day average of notional options volume on S&P [---] stocks is up $530 billion the highest in at least [--] years. This measures the total Dollar value of options contracts traded on individual S&P [---] stocks reflecting the https://t.co/ZIB7FXOewT Risk appetite has arguably never been stronger: The 10-day average of notional options volume on S&P [---] stocks is up $530 billion the highest in at least [--] years. This measures the total Dollar value of options contracts traded on"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Remember that feeling back in early October when it was SO obvious that Bitcoin was about to hit $200k and Solana was going to teleport to $500 Don't you wish you had sold then What is trading today on max excitement Mag [--] trading at ATH P/Es Gold and Silver Might be a good idea to take a little profits in those areas just in case. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022408435883749498 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022408435883749498"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Now do $DFDV Further capitulation on ASST today. Second day in a row with a solid drop while MSTR/BTC remain mostly flat. Liking the entry even more now. -6% on a -1% Bitcoin move. EV mNAV is now only at 6% premium and MC mNAV is now at 0.65x. 48% amplification of Bitcoin. Bitcoin move https://t.co/aLPzFiUoZH Further capitulation on ASST today. Second day in a row with a solid drop while MSTR/BTC remain mostly flat. Liking the entry even more now. -6% on a -1% Bitcoin move. EV mNAV is now only at 6% premium and MC mNAV is now at 0.65x. 48% amplification of Bitcoin. Bitcoin move"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Pump up the jam Global Liquidity - China increases M2 by $1.26 trillion overnight - Feb 13th https://t.co/4SiiMk5uO2 Global Liquidity - China increases M2 by $1.26 trillion overnight - Feb 13th https://t.co/4SiiMk5uO2"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3 day market weekend coming. Max illiquidity. If a push was going to happen this month this would be the weekend to do it. Big negative gamma on Friday 20th meaning amplified volatility in either direction. Which way is the push going to be Lots of positioning to the downside such that the put profits will outweigh the call losses if prices are pushed down. But we don't know what the positioning in the OTC market looks like. Maybe it's time for a bounce on the back of lower inflation"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The crypto VC types have a confidence crisis right now. Some of them are bearish on crypto + leaving crypto because there are no new narratives that they can use to launch new tokens to dump on retail's head. These same VC types railed against memecoins because they "have no purpose" which is just VC speak for "we can't get early access to them so they have no purpose to us." Many of these VC types are abandoning crypto in a very vocal manner. Fantastic. Fuck em. Crypto no longer needs VC money. I'll say it again crypto no longer needs VC money. Let's stop venerating whiny bitch ass mfers."
X Link 2026-02-14T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What will be the innovation that ignites the next bull market then Financial Products - same as it's always been. (Some call it Financial Engineering). This time though it will be centered around two key themes - (1) derivatives and (2) yield being offered to an increasingly wide range of investors across an ever expanding range of platforms e.g. DeFi crypto CeFi Fintech and now most importantly TradFi. The next marginal buyer of crypto will be TradFi. TradFi wants two key things: (1) more volatility (to trade or upside vol for long term asset allocatooors) and (2) more yield. They aren't"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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