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Remember those PPP loans that basically became free money? Combine that with lockdown life—people trapped at home, stimulus checks burning holes in pockets, and suddenly crypto looked like the perfect playground.



Fast forward to now. Hand someone $2,000 today? That's not going into speculative assets. It's covering rent. Paying down credit cards. Keeping the lights on.

The contrast tells you everything about why that 2020-2021 crypto rally was lightning in a bottle. Different economy. Different priorities. Different game entirely.
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StablecoinArbitrageurvip
· 11h ago
*adjusts monitor brightness* statistically speaking, the liquidity-adjusted returns during PPP were an anomaly. my arb bots saw unprecedented spreads.
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GasWranglervip
· 11h ago
technically speaking, the 2020 liquidity injection was a sub-optimal allocation of capital... data proves this
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StablecoinGuardianvip
· 11h ago
Can't even afford plain porridge, and you still want to trade cryptocurrencies?
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ArbitrageBotvip
· 11h ago
It was really crazy back then.
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AirdropHunterZhangvip
· 11h ago
Just freeloaded on a few crappy pancakes, now everything's reset to zero.
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GasFeeCryBabyvip
· 11h ago
Back then, everyone was pretending to be stupid.
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