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Story: Bitcoin Falls to $73K as ETF Outflows and Whale Selling Hit Hard

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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Macro Pressure and the Gold Shift. Geopolitical tension between the US and Iran has rattled investor sentiment, killing whatever hope…

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Flash Crash, Legal Fights, and a Six-Hour Blackout. Beyond Bitcoin's slide, the past week handed the crypto industry a string of separate headaches.

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Bitcoin dropped to roughly $73,000 this week, dragged down by a brutal mix of institutional selling, macro fear, and whale-level exits that shook the broader crypto market.

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The numbers aren't pretty. US spot Bitcoin ETFs bled more than a billion dollars in a single day — a withdrawal pace that pretty much wiped out the optimism that had been…

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Bitcoin's 5.4% drop dragged nearly everything else with it.

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Geopolitical tension between the US and Iran has rattled investor sentiment, killing whatever hope traders had for near-term interest rate cuts.

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Ethereum barely held near $2,000. XRP posted losses in line with the broader selloff. Most altcoins basically mirrored Bitcoin's decline, and there wasn't much in the way of…

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Hyperliquid also expanded its platform to include macro prediction markets, letting users trade on events like monthly CPI figures.

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Sui Network went offline for nearly six hours. Again. The blockchain's history of outages is becoming kind of a recurring story at this point, and each new incident raises fresh…

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Meanwhile, a Google engineer faces criminal charges for allegedly using confidential search data to pocket $1.2 million in profits on Polymarket.

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And the courtroom fight between Galaxy Digital and BitGo over a collapsed $1.2 billion acquisition deal is still grinding on.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, for his part, pushed the conversation toward longer-term optimism, saying the industry needs major technological advances and policy changes to push…

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Bitcoin's 24-hour trading volume came in at $83 billion against that $2.54 trillion total market cap figure.

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