Institutions flee Bitcoin as war breaks out — short the crypto dip
Wall Street funds are dumping their Bitcoin at a record pace right as a massive global crisis in the Middle East is exploding. When恐慌 hits the market and institutions pull their money out of risky assets, Bitcoin usually continues to fall alongside stocks.
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Institutional investors have been fleeing Bitcoin, resulting in a $2.7 billion sell-off in Bitcoin ETFs, and there is no sign of demand recovery. This massive institutional dumping is happening simultaneously with a massive geopolitical shock—US military strikes on Iran and the collapse of a ceasefire—which has sent stock futures diving. When institutional money flees to the sidelines due to global panic, high-risk assets like Bitcoin tend to suffer double-digit drawdowns as investors rush to cash.