When the Exchanges Ran Out of Digital Milk 🥛📉
Imagine the chaos: 5 million Bitcoins—a significant chunk of the circulating supply—suddenly vanishes from all major exchanges. It wasn't a hack; it was just... everyone deciding, simultaneously, that self-custody was suddenly more appealing than leaving funds with a third party. The exchanges would instantly resemble those post-apocalyptic grocery stores, not with canned goods missing, but with their digital shelves entirely bare.
The immediate market reaction would be less a correction and more a complete emotional breakdown. Trading volume would plummet to levels last seen in 2010. Whales would be frantically trying to buy the few hundred BTC left, only to find the "Ask" price required mortgaging their second yacht. Arbitrage bots would short-circuit, realizing their entire existence depended on easily accessible liquidity that no longer existed. The remaining exchange CEOs would probably be seen giving press conferences from inflatable pools, insisting that "liquidity is fine, we just have a temporary storage enthusiasm problem." It would be the ultimate, involuntary lesson in scarcity, turning a few million people into HODLers by force of physics.satoshi2901
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