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The Bull Shark in the Liquidity #substack #shorts

23 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker warns retail investors about hidden dangers in cryptocurrency liquidity pools using a bull‑shark metaphor. He likens the shark’s ability to swim in freshwater to the way liquidity can move into seemingly safe venues, catching investors off guard. The speaker references Tom Lee of Fundstrat, noting Lee’s 36‑year experience and his firm’s BMNR treasury, which holds about 5% of Ethereum’s supply, to argue that the market isn’t in a classic "bubble" but rather a state of limited awareness. He compares the market’s temporary anesthesia—where participants are unaware of underlying risks—to a medical procedure, suggesting that when the “anesthesia” wears off, investors will realize they were in a bubble without truly experiencing it. The overall message is a cautionary call for vigilance and skepticism toward mainstream bubble narratives.

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Now they might paddle out and try and catch some waves, but if you stay too long, bad things can happen. But retail could also think like, yeah, well, I'm just gonna go hang out in that, you know, that river or that lake in that liquidity. And that's why I say it's a bull shark. Yeah, it's a bull, but it's a bull shark 'cause those things can swim in freshwater and they're very dangerous. And so when people think they're safe in other waters, Then watch out. And that's why I say, I've been saying that for a while now, it's a bull shark. And you hear the key word in the mainstream, bubble this, bubble that. Well, I agree with what Tom Lee says because he has his money where his mouth is. He is the leader at Fundstrat. He leads BMNR, a public digital asset treasury traded on the stock market. And they own like 5% of Ethereum supply. So when he says, hey, I've got 36 years experience, never seen a bubble when people say it's a bubble, then yeah, I agree with that. I haven't said that before. I'm like, is it really a bubble if people are aware of that? It's more like a doctor putting you under for anesthesia for a procedure. They control the time, then you wake up, you don't know what happened. They're like, oh yeah, we had a bubble, something happened. You didn't really experience it. So