Biggest corporate Bitcoin holder starts selling, funds bleeding billions — brace for more crypto downside
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the company famous for buying and holding billions of dollars of Bitcoin, just sold some for the first time in four years. At the same time, investors pulled $1.67 billion out of crypto funds last week — the second-biggest exit of 2026 — and Bitcoin ETFs have now lost nearly $3 billion in just ten days.
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When the biggest corporate Bitcoin holder on the planet breaks a four-year habit and starts selling, it signals a genuine shift in conviction — not just routine trading. The numbers back it up: $1.67 billion pulled from crypto funds in a single week, Bitcoin ETFs bleeding nearly $3 billion over ten days, and the selling is heavily concentrated in the U.S., which is usually the driver of crypto rallies. In past cycles, heavy ETF outflows clustering like this have marked the start of multi-week drawdowns of 15% or more. Coins and crypto-adjacent stocks like Coinbase and MicroStrategy tend to fall even harder than Bitcoin itself when institutional money heads for the exits.