Bitcoin (BTC) was conceived in the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis—a technological rebuttal to ‘Wall Street excess’ and a blueprint for value transfer without central banks or gatekeepers. Yet nearly two decades later, much of today’s crypto market activity is being driven not by that original promise, but by an ecosystem of highly leveraged speculation that borrows Bitcoin’s language while discarding its restraint.
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