Mt. Gox wakes up, ETFs bleed $3.4B — Bitcoin is facing a perfect storm of selling pressure
Three red flags are hitting Bitcoin at once: the collapsed exchange Mt. Gox just moved $739 million of Bitcoin out of storage (hinting at imminent selling), Bitcoin ETF investors have been pulling money out for 11 straight days totaling $3.4 billion, and BTC has already dropped below $71,000.
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Bitcoin is facing a rare triple threat. First, Mt. Gox just moved $739 million from cold storage for the first time since March — historically, these moves precede large creditor distributions that flood the market with selling pressure. Second, the biggest Bitcoin ETF selloff since they launched is underway: $3.4 billion pulled out over 11 consecutive sessions. That's institutional money heading for the exits. Third, a major corporate holder (Strategy) disclosed its first-ever Bitcoin sale, adding to the sell momentum. Meanwhile, investor appetite is rotating hard into AI stocks — Alphabet just raised $80 billion for AI, and Anthropic beat OpenAI to an IPO filing. Capital is flowing one direction and it's not toward crypto right now.