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Story: Bitcoin Drops Below $60K as $1.9 Billion Leaves Spot ETFs in Days

By Julie Binoche

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ETF Outflows and the Hedge Debate. The hedge argument for Bitcoin is taking a real beating.

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Why $60,000 Is the Number That Matters. Sixty thousand dollars is more than just a round number.

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Tech Sector Pressure Spills Into Crypto. The tech sector selloff is doing real damage. Major tech companies are seeing stock prices fall as…

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Bitcoin is bleeding. Nearly $1.9 billion walked out of spot Bitcoin ETFs in a short stretch, and the $60,000 support level is now looking shaky at best.

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The scale of the outflow matters here. When that much capital exits ETFs that fast, it's basically a vote of no confidence — or at least a sign that big investors are rethinking…

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The hedge argument for Bitcoin is taking a real beating. For years the pitch was simple: Bitcoin moves independently of traditional markets, it's scarce, it's uncorrelated, it…

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It's not that Bitcoin has never recovered from outflow episodes. It has. But the pattern here — ETF money leaving while equities wobble — kind of chips away at the idea that…

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No specific analyst or firm went on record with a number or a target in the source material, so the exact bottom is unclear.

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Sixty thousand dollars is more than just a round number. It's a psychological threshold — the kind of level where retail confidence either holds or cracks.

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And the ETF structure makes this dynamic a bit different than past cycles. Spot ETF holders are, in many cases, more traditional investors — pension allocators, wealth managers,…

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Read also: XRP Drops Below RSI 30 as Binance Supply Hits 4-Month Low and ETF Inflows Top $1.45 Billion

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That's a structural shift in who holds Bitcoin now, and it's probably not fully priced into most people's mental models of how Bitcoin behaves under stress.

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The tech sector selloff is doing real damage. Major tech companies are seeing stock prices fall as investors get nervous about earnings, growth forecasts, and the broader macro…

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It's worth saying plainly: Bitcoin wasn't supposed to work this way. The whole original premise was non-correlation. But markets don't care about premises. They care about flows.

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Whether that correlation holds or breaks depends on what happens next in equities. If tech stabilizes, Bitcoin probably gets some breathing room.

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