{"id":52440,"date":"2025-10-12T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52440"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:46:42","slug":"altcoins-cratered-in-oct-10-crypto-flash-crash-as-bitcoin-held-up-wiston-capital-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52440","title":{"rendered":"Altcoins Cratered in Oct. 10 Crypto Flash Crash as Bitcoin Held Up, Wiston Capital Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday\u2019s crypto sell-off was a fast, leverage-driven cascade that crushed altcoins while bitcoin held up comparatively better \u2014 and the next phase hinges on a handful of signals, according to Wiston Capital Founder Charlie Erith.<\/p>\n

In a Sunday post<\/a> titled \u201cCrypto Crumble,\u201d Erith said the market excluding bitcoin, ether and stablecoins fell about 33% in roughly 25 minutes on Oct. 10 before bouncing to a loss of around 10.6%. He added that about $560 billion, or 13.1%, has been erased from total crypto market value since Oct. 6 and cited $18.7 billion in liquidations during the episode. <\/p>\n

He linked the immediate trigger to President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social threat<\/a> of an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports, but argued the slide was already in motion \u2014 equities were still climbing while crypto \u201cfelt distinctly frail,\u201d a divergence he took as advance warning.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin, he said, \u201cbehaved largely as expected.\u201d It fell, but less than the long tail, leaving bitcoin near a long-running uptrend from late 2022 and boosting its market share as non-bitcoin tokens absorbed \u201cimmense technical damage.\u201d Erith said his fund emerged \u201clargely unscathed\u201d because positioning had already been defensively tilted.<\/p>\n

What Erith is watching next<\/h2>\n

Erith said he is tracking bitcoin\u2019s 365-day exponential moving average as a line that separates bullish from corrective regimes. He added that a pullback toward the $100,000 area and a touch of that average would not, by itself, overturn his longer-term view provided the level holds \u2014 but a sustained break would raise the risk of a deeper reset.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to market breadth via bitcoin\u2019s share of total crypto value. According to Erith, the sell-off accelerated a rotation toward higher-liquidity assets, lifting bitcoin dominance. He said a continued rise in that share alongside weak breadth would argue for caution in high-beta tokens until non-bitcoin charts rebuild.<\/p>\n

Beyond bitcoin\u2019s own levels, Erith highlighted Strategy\u2019s equity as a proxy for leverage and sentiment in the ecosystem. He noted that roughly four years ago a decisive move below its 365-day average preceded a major bitcoin drawdown. In his view, holding above that trend line would support the resilience narrative; a break below could foreshadow renewed selling pressure.<\/p>\n

Volatility is the other gauge. Erith said the VIX \u2014 the equity \u201cfear index\u201d \u2014 has started to climb and that historically better entries arrive when volatility spikes rather than during the early rise. That framing implies patience on adding risk while equity-volatility stress plays out.<\/p>\n

On positioning, Erith said he remains invested but is avoiding leverage and is carrying cash \u201cwaiting for the dust to settle.\u201d He said moves of this sort have, in his experience, sometimes preceded broader downturns, which is why he prefers to see the above signals stabilize before increasing exposure.<\/p>\n

Erith said the sell-off inflicted heavy damage on altcoins, while bitcoin\u2019s month-to-date decline is modest and comparable to large-cap tech, which he views as evidence of growing resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday\u2019s crypto sell-off was a fast, leverage-driven cascade that crushed altcoins while bitcoin held up comparatively better \u2014 and the next phase hinges on a handful of signals, according to Wiston Capital Founder Charlie Erith. In a Sunday post titled \u201cCrypto Crumble,\u201d Erith said the market excluding bitcoin, ether and stablecoins fell about 33% in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-52440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}