2025-12-26 23:20:22

Ever wondered how commodity prices get pushed down artificially? That's what we call Commodity Suppression—a deliberate strategy to keep prices depressed below their natural level. Historically, this played out heavily in precious metals like gold and silver through derivative markets. Today? The same playbook has extended into digital commodities and crypto assets.

How does it actually work? The machinery runs through futures markets and other leveraged instruments. By flooding the market with short positions or coordinated selling pressure, larger players can drive prices lower—often disconnected from underlying fundamentals. It's a cat-and-mouse game between those trying to suppress prices and those betting on genuine value discovery.

The twist with digital assets: blockchain transparency makes some of these moves more visible on-chain, yet the mechanisms through centralized derivatives exchanges remain just as potent. Understanding this dynamic helps traders recognize when price movements reflect real market sentiment versus orchestrated pressure.

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RebaseVictim

· 12-26 23:50

Honestly, this trick has been played out long ago. Now it's just moving onto the chain to continue cutting leeks. --- I just want to know when we can truly achieve decentralization. The CEX folks are still secretly dumping. --- The eternal pain point in the crypto world: prices are detached from fundamentals for so long... who can stand it? --- On-chain transparency is a joke. CEXs still do shorting as usual. Do they really think they can win just because they can see? --- Isn't this just the old stuff from traditional finance, just a different skin... Wake up, everyone. --- Still dare to believe that the derivatives market is transparent? How naive can you be?

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RuntimeError

· 12-26 23:45

There are always people playing this trick in the futures market, really annoying --- Basically, big players team up to dump the market, how can small traders compete --- On-chain transparency is bullshit; centralized exchanges still do shady stuff --- It’s always like this, the price drops inexplicably, just right --- Gold and silver have been doing this for a long time; now it’s the turn in the crypto world --- The crypto market’s leek field will never escape this game, might as well accept it --- Bitcoin has been hammered so many times, I never thought it could be human manipulation --- The question is how to tell if it’s a real drop or a manipulation? That’s the key

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gas_guzzler

· 12-26 23:42

This game has been played from gold and silver to the crypto world. Honestly, it's just big players causing trouble in the futures market... Shorts smashing the market is nothing new; it's just that on-chain data exposes it more clearly. Looking at the fundamentals and analyzing candlestick charts are not the same thing. Large institutions rely on this to harvest retail investors. Decentralized exchanges are still a black box; how transparent the technology really is—what's the point? So, is shorting a legal tool for grazing sheep? These game rules are really absurd...

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SerumSqueezer

· 12-26 23:38

Basically, big players are playing the price suppression game, and the crypto world can't escape this trick either. Wait, on-chain transparency is high, but centralized exchanges can still manipulate? That logic is a bit shaky. Futures markets are way more insidious than what the naked eye can see, really hard to defend against.

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