Bitcoin Panic: Does Even the Gods Slow Down?

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Key Highlights

  • Pompliano unearths the dread‑laden blot that Bitcoin’s Fear and Greed Index has nosedived to a mere 5, the kind of number that makes a monk weep.
  • He reports that the grand stewards of capital-those “large asset managers”-are now, absurdly enough, infiltrating the very chains of the economy they once scorned.

A modern-day dandy of the American Dream, Anthony Pompliano, proclaims that while the masses throw themselves into the maw of despair-retail investors are surrendering to the abyss-faculty of the institutional behemoths keep breathing easy, untouched by the tides of chaos.

In a fateful video on X, Pompliano flickered the bleak light upon the Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index, proclaiming its fall to a scarring 5-an echo of previous episodes of market volatility, yet far deeper and more… trying.

Bitcoin’s fear & greed index plummeted to 5, which shows retail is freaking out.

But the structural market data points suggest something different is happening with institutions. – Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) February 19, 2026

“Everyone is worried about the price of Bitcoin,” he muses, describing an anxious crowd held hostage by their own financial anxieties-an almost tragic comedy of the modern ages.

Sentiment at historic lows

Using the hound of research from Binance as his witness, Pompliano notes that this murderous index has slipped beneath the most fateful valleys of previous financial storms. History records such ferocious readings as being the soundtrack of heavy sells and, occasionally, a fragile peace that follows once the trembling stares of financiers have grown weary.

What distinguishes this all‑out chaos is what Pompliano sees: an ecosystem that appears, like a stage with a new, relentless director, markedly different from previous bear periods. Bitcoin’s price, market architecture, and metrics of adoption endure at a higher structural plateau, even while the extreme fear of the day is quite literally written in stone.

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2026-02-19 22:28