I moved to Florida in 2006 and have distinct memories of meeting sleazy and disgusting mortgage brokers from Countrywide, real estate agents, etc flaunting their fast cash while thinking all along "this doesn't seem right". I basically watched "The Big Short" in realtime... Same goes for Theranos (it's been 10 years, where is your product?) and WeWork (wait aren't you just leasing out office space?).
Crypto is 14 years in and absent a few extremely rare use cases like fleeing a dictatorship, dealing with currency destabilization in developing nations, etc no one uses it for anything other than trading on exchanges, which at this point seems like Russian roulette.
It's as though the last remaining "widespread" use case for crypto has now almost been effectively wiped out.
There's a run on the bank, people want out, and the easiest way to get out is to sell your shitcoins and your bitcoin, and wire transfer dollars to your bank account.
With all the selling of bitcoin to raise cash, the price of bitcoin must drop.
And yet the bitcoin price is up six percent in the last seven days, so there must be some other mechanism at work.