Every generation of trader gets a moment where the charts stop looking like price action and start looking like a neural discharge — an overloaded system short-circuiting under the weight of its own feedback loops. Friday was that moment for crypto. A tariff shock from President Trump — 100% on China, dropped like a geopolitical nuke — triggered one of those full-system margin flushes that vaporize stop losses faster than you can say “liquidation cascade.”

Bitcoin didn’t correct; it convulsed. The tape turned from a liquidity pool into a waterfall, and every overleveraged wallet found out what happens when the synthetic euphoria of borrowed conviction meets the cold math of forced selling. It wasn’t just bad positioning…