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Almost all #Bitcoin sell pressure on November 3 and 4 came from #Binance

CVD shows around minus 7,500 BTC there while Coinbase, OKX and Bybit stayed flat. BTC fell and more than 400 million in longs were liquidated.

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Almost all #Bitcoin sell pressure on November 3 and 4 came from #Binance

CVD shows around minus 7,500 BTC there while Coinbase, OKX and Bybit stayed flat.
BTC fell and more than 400 million in longs were liquidated.

This is is a signal of deep structural risk.
On-chain data shows large inflows of BTC to Binance, a classic sign of upcoming sell pressure.

At the same time small retail deposits collapsed by 80 percent.

Whales dominate trading and Binance alone handles more than half of all global BTC spot volume.

That means one single exchange effectively sets the world price for Bitcoin.

And here’s the real problem, no one outside Binance can fully verify what happens inside its system.

Order books, trade data, internal flows, even the role of its own market makers are completely opaque.

There is no independent audit, no regulator watching live order activity, and no proof that the reported volumes are real.

Large players like Wintermute, Jump and other funds use Binance as their main execution hub.

Some analysts suspect coordinated activity, inflows followed by sharp dumps that trigger liquidations and panic.
Retail traders sell in fear while insiders and bots buy back cheaper.

Binance’s stablecoin reserves have quietly increased by 9 billion dollars in the past month, ready to flip the market when timing suits.

This is not decentralization anymore. Not even about alts..we are talking about Bitcoin.

It is centralized control of Bitcoin’s price through an unregulated black box.

If Binance manipulates order flow or delays matching internally, nobody can see it, nobody can prove it, and nobody can stop it.

Bitcoin’s price discovery depends on one opaque entity that answers to no one.

Watch the inflows and the CVD data, not the headlines.

Because when Bitcoin moves only because Binance or the Binance users moves, the market is no longer free.

- by $MASTR project

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We can only speculate why this sell pressure came only from #Binance

Maybe it’s whales exiting through the deepest books.
Maybe it’s internal market makers reshuffling positions.
Maybe it’s coordinated dumping to trigger liquidations and scoop cheap BTC.

Or maybe it’s just how broken the structure has become when one exchange controls more than half of global spot volume.

The truth is no one outside Binance can verify what’s really happening inside.

No public audit, no real-time transparency, no proof of internal trading limits.

That’s the problem.
When the market depends on a single opaque venue, even normal moves start to look engineered.

And the data right now says exactly that; Bitcoin’s price didn’t fall everywhere.
It fell at Binance.

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The chart was apparently from @traderview2 ; credit where it’s due.

For interested ppl, search for cumulative volume delta (CVD) metric across major exchanges. If interested in todays data.

The CVD indicator (difference between market buy and market sell volumes) is explained in detail, when CVD rises it indicates buying pressure, when it falls it signals selling pressure.

One data source as example: CryptoQuant offers a “Spot Taker CVD” indicator for Bitcoin (90-day view) which shows recent flows.

Doesn’t change a thing content-wise though.
Heads up to him.

Cold beer’s waiting if it was your chart 🍺🤝

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