🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Crypto/Blockchain December opens with the markets on edge. Bitcoin slips toward the mid 80s and the entire crypto complex feels the gravitational pull of global risk-off sentiment. Japan’s rising bond yields are rattling institutions and forcing capital to retreat. Automated end-of-month rebalancing has turned into a cascade of liquidations that left nearly a billion dollars in crypto positions wiped out within hours. Ethereum folds lower. Altcoins barely exhale. Market de