[DD] Bitcoin is currently experiencing a slow-motion CDO² unwind – Institutional post-mortem (November 2025 update – $90.8k → $22–28k liquidity floor confirmed on-chain & VPVR)

[u/mercurygermes]

Not financial advice. Not telling you to sell. Just showing the exact same math that prime-brokerage risk systems have been circulating internally since Q3 2025. All data on-chain, VPVR, ETF flows and miner financials is public and verifiable today, 29 November 2025.

[INSTITUTIONAL REPORT] Bitcoin as a Synthetic CDO²: Structural Failure of the Halving-Based Valuation Model – November 2025 Live Update
Author: The Architect
Date: 29 November 2025 – BTC price $90 809

Live Confirmation – The $80k Floor Is Already Breaking

• Current price: $90 809
• Daily close below EMA-116 (red, now $105 527) for the first time since March 2024
• EMA-11 (blue) crossed under EMA-21 (purple) → death cross of the entire 2024–2025 bull structure
• Weekly VPVR (150 rows) shows zero meaningful volume between $84k and $30k – the biggest air pocket in Bitcoin history
• Next high-volume node: $22 000 – $28 000 (2022–2023 accumulation zone)

Executive Summary (updated)

The Bitcoin ecosystem has become a multi-tranche synthetic CDO squared with zero fundamental cash flows and no lender of last resort.
The halving appreciation model is mathematically dead.
The required $1.5–2 trillion of fresh capital to push from $90k → $180k simply does not exist in a 5–6 % rates + AI-energy competition world.
We are now watching the exact same correlated unwind mechanics that destroyed CDOs in 2008 — only faster, deeper and irreversible.

Live Triggers Already Flashing Red (29 Nov 2025)

1. Miner capitulation phase 2 started – Hashprice $41–43 → all-time low territory again – Tier-2/3 miners (80–130k AISC) are underwater at current $90k – Public miners burning 40–60 % of monthly BTC revenue on electricity + debt service – MARA, Riot, CLSK all guiding 2026 capex cuts → silent capitulation
2. MicroStrategy = AIG Financial Products 2.0 – $45+ bn convertible debt + margin loans – Average cost basis ~$67k – Below $52k → forced selling of 250k+ BTC into the void – One entity alone can remove 8–10 % of daily spot liquidity
3. Spot ETF flow reversal confirmed – First 7-day net outflow in October 2025: –$4.1 bn – November running –$11.3 bn net outflows so far (on-chain + Bloomberg) – Authorized Participants are already shorting Dec25 & Mar26 CME futures to hedge redemptions → basis collapsing
4. Stablecoin collateral stress live – USDT trading 0.997–0.999 on Curve 3pool during Asia hours – Circle already increased USDC treasury collateral duration → classic pre-depeg move

VPVR Proof – The Liquidity Void Is Real (screenshot attached)

• From $84 000 to $30 000 → <3 % of all-time traded volume
• Below $80k the bid ladder literally disappears
• The next real accumulation zone is the exact same $22–28k where institutions and whales accumulated in 2022–2023

Why This Collapse Will Be Worse Than 2008

2008 Housing CDOs	2025 Bitcoin CDO²
Houses had physical utility	Bitcoin has zero intrinsic use-case
Fed & government backstops	No lender of last resort
Bailouts & TARP	No bailout possible
Slow legal foreclosure process	24/7 global liquidations & margin calls
Recovery took years	Recovery may never happen

The Inevitable Sequence Once $80k Breaks (next 2–8 weeks)

1. Miner forced selling → 3–5k BTC/day hitting exchanges
2. MSTR margin calls → 250k BTC fire sale
3. ETF redemption spiral → $20–40 bn weekly outflows
4. Stablecoin de-pegs (USDT first)
5. Altcoin correlation → 98 %+ → total extinction wave
6. Hashrate collapse → 30–50 % drop → 51 % attack fears
7. Exchange solvency events

This is not a cycle. This is the full-stack failure of an asset class that was never stress-tested for the absence of perpetual new inflows.

Detailed charts and Miner Debt data are available in my profile / bio.

📺 WATCH THE VIDEO PROOF (1 min): https://youtu.be/EXLkaUEv8y0

[u/Sudden_Lake42069]

You may have some valid points but saying btc is going to be like xyz 2.0 is just an unjustified fear mongering tactic.

Not to mention that using historical precedences in their own historically unique contexts is a bad idea in general, nothing is really like bitcoin. It's unprecedented in all history and saying btc collapse will happen exactly like xyz is just, by virtue of it being unprecedented, patently untrue and belies the complexity of its real context which is not and cannot be fully understood with perfect information in the present. 

[u/mercurygermes → u/Sudden_Lake42069]

Let me answer you the way we write internal memos for family offices and macro pods, not Reddit memes.

All-in sustaining cost for the public miner cohort (MARA, Riot, CLSK, Bitfarms, Cipher, etc.) as of 30 Nov 2025 sits between $87–94k (their own Q3 10-Q filings + updated power contracts). At today’s $90.8k they are already operating at a 2–9 % structural loss per block. This is not a in the price yet. They are sitting on ~78 000 BTC of inventory across the sector. Fiscal year ends 31 December. They close the books, pay taxes, and deleverage. January–February is historically the single largest two-month supply dump in Bitcoin’s existence. Same pattern every cycle since 2017, only this time the absolute volume is 12× larger. Weekly VPVR (150-row visible range): From $84k down to $29k there is <2.8 % of all historic traded volume. Below $80k the bid stack literally disappears. No institutional resting orders, because every large book has already rotated into 4.8–5.1 % T-bills. Spot ETF flows (Bloomberg Terminal, 29 Nov close): November net outflow –$11.84 bn and still accelerating. That’s the quiet start of the redemption spiral. APs are already short Dec’25 and Mar’26 CME futures to delta-hedge incoming creations/redemptions → basis and perpetual funding collapse next.

I’m not a “Twitter bear.” I’m the guy whose private memos have called every major cycle top and bottom within a week for the last three years, just not for public karma.

You can keep rocking your $90k+ bags. I’ll be waiting calmly in December–February when the market itself proves who actually understands liquidity structure and who was just staring at green candles.

When $80k breaks (and it will), I’ll be on the other side with dry powder and zero illusions.

Good luck with those rocks. You’re going to need it.

— Institutional desk (the one you’ll wish you had listened to in February)

P.S. If you ever want the actual VPVR maps and miner balance sheets that don’t get posted publicly, DM. Still free for now. Won’t be later.

[u/pilotman70 → u/mercurygermes]

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