The professor's response is witty, humorous, and incisive.
Broomie
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~ I ASKED MY ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WHY IS BITCOIN DOWN TODAY (HE'S BRITISH AND OOOOOLD AF) ~
Ah, Bitcoin’s in a bit of a slump today, is it? Not entirely surprising, old sport. Markets are rather like a well-aged Stilton—temperamental, prone to crumbling under the wrong conditions.
Now, today’s wobble seems to be down to a few things. First, there’s this fuss in the tech sector—some new AI upstart in China, DeepSeek, has everyone in a tizzy, and when tech stocks fall, Bitcoin often follows like an eager pup. Then, of course, there’s the Federal Reserve, behaving like an overzealous maître d’, keeping interest rates high and making traditional investments look more appealing than our dear old crypto.
And then we have the liquidations—oh, the drama! Leverage traders getting squeezed, their positions closing automatically, causing a domino effect. Rather like a poorly stacked tower of éclairs, if you will.
What happens next? Well, my dear fellow, that’s the million-pound question. It may rally, it may dawdle, but Bitcoin’s been through worse scrapes. Best not to panic—have a brandy, perhaps a bit of treacle tart, and let the markets do their dance.