Bitcoin’s Wild Ride: How Market Makers Turned a Dip into a Disaster

According to Markus Thielen, the brain behind 10x Research, these market makers were busy being “short gamma” between $60,000 and $75,000. If that sounds like financial gibberish, think of it as standing on a ladder that’s missing a few rungs. As Bitcoin tumbled, these ladder-standers had to sell Bitcoin in the spot and futures markets to keep their balance, which, of course, only made the ladder wobble more. It’s like trying to stop a sneeze by yelling “DON’T SNEEZE!”-it just makes things worse.



