Markets had a flood of liquidations on Monday, and traders lost over $1.5 billion in positions. So, why are liquidations spiking? Is this a warning or a blip? 

Also, could a flood of DAT issuance be setting the stage for not just a crypto winter, but a crypto “nuclear” winter? If so, hedge funds and market structure could accelerate the pain. 

This week on Bits + Bips, Steven Ehrlich, Ram Ahluwalia, Austin Campbell, and Vinny Lingham talk about why mNAVs could compress and whether even MicroStrategy’s stack is more fragile than it looks. 

They debate the bull case for gold (yes, even at these ATHs), how tokenized stocks and changing reporting cadences could open new insider edges, and what the U.S. macro picture looks like. 

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Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, CEO and Founder of Lumida

Steven Ehrlich, Executive Editor at Unchained

Guests:

Austin Campbell, Founder and Managing Partner of Zero Knowledge Consulting

Vinny Lingham, Co-founder of Praxos Capital

Timestamps:

🎬 0:00 Intro

💥7:39 Why Monday’s liquidations spiked and what triggered $1.5B in losses

📊 11:18 How a shift away from quarterly reporting could change markets

🕵️ 14:16 How tokenized stocks might hand insiders a massive edge

🐻 22:05 Why Vinny is bearish right now and why Ram disagrees

🥇 24:25 Why gold might still have upside, even at record highs

📉 28:59 Whether the flood of DATs will end in brutal consolidation

⚡ 35:49 Could even MicroStrategy blow up under market stress?

✅ 48:17 What SEC clearing the path for ETFs really signals for crypto

📈 54:23 Ram’s stock picks in this environment

⚠️ 56:00 Why Austin sees a looming breakdown in the U.S. economy

😌 58:02 Why Vinny doesn’t feel the need to take big risks right now

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