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BREAKING: Bitcoin ETF outflows snap nine-day streak ahead of FOMC as market tests resolve

The last two days has seen Bitcoin fall from a high of $79,000 to $76,000.

After a strong April run, that move doesn’t come as a complete shock.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs had been on a nine-day inflow streak. Bitcoin had pushed back toward $80,000. The rebound story was getting easier to believe.

Then the streak snapped…

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $263 million in net outflows on Monday, ending a nine-day run of inflows. That streak had pulled in roughly $2.1 billion while Bitcoin rallied ~10%.

One down day after a run like that is not unusual.

Markets don’t usually move in straight lines, especially when Bitcoin is trying to reclaim a big psychological level.

Bitcoin also slipped back below $77,000 after failing to reclaim $80,000.

That is the current point of contention for the market:

Both arguments are fair right now.

But the Fed adds another layer to it.

With the FOMC decision close, traders are already watching rates, inflation, and broader risk appetite.

That doesn’t have to become the whole story, but it helps explain why the market suddenly looks more cautious near resistance.

So the clean version of the rebound story is gone for now.

But that doesn’t mean the rebound is broken.

If Bitcoin can hold the mid-$70,000s and buyers step back in, this week may end up looking like a routine reset inside a broader recovery.

If it keeps fading and loses that support, the failed $80,000 reclaim will start to matter a lot more.

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Fred Krueger has been one of the loudest, most direct voices on Bitcoin throughout this entire bear market. And this week, he went on a tear.

For context, Krueger is a Stanford PhD mathematician, former Wall Street prop trader at Salomon Brothers, serial entrepreneur with over 10 successful exits, and author of "The Big Bitcoin Book" and "Bitcoin One Million: The Final Chapter of Fiat."

He's been deep in Bitcoin for years and has a knack for cutting through noise with surgical precision.

This week, he posted 3 tweets in a row that summed up the bull case better than most full-length essays.

Read that one again. 17 years. A series of miracles. And nobody is catching up.

That's the Bitcoin moat in 13 words.

Every other crypto, every "Ethereum killer," every new chain or shiny altcoin is competing against an asset that has had a 17-year head start, has survived multiple existential threats, and now has the largest network of miners, holders, and institutional support of any digital asset in history.

Krueger then took aim at where most retail money ends up flowing:

This one stings. Trump coin down 96% from peak. Down 12% in 24 hours while the President himself was celebrating it at a "meme coin gala." Krueger nailed the absurdity of it. Even meme coins backed by the most powerful office on the planet collapse to zero.

Meanwhile, over time, Bitcoin keeps grinding higher.

And then he closed the trilogy with the simplest, most direct tweet of all:

That's the entire thesis. The bears have been wrong on Bitcoin for 17 years. They were wrong at $1. They were wrong at $1,000. They were wrong at $10,000. They were wrong at $69,000. And they'll be wrong on this drawdown too.

Every cycle, the same playbook. Bears predict doom. Bitcoin survives. Bitcoin compounds. Bitcoin sets new highs. Bears come back to predict doom again.

Krueger's framing is simple but devastating. There is no second best.

Bitcoin had a 17-year head start.

Nobody is catching up. And anyone betting against it now is betting against the most resilient asset in modern financial history.

The bears are dead wrong. 🐻

Today we're looking at BTC Risk - a simple way to gauge where we are in the cycle.

BTC Risk compresses years of price action into a number between 0 and 1:

It doesn't call exact tops or bottoms. It shows you when risk-reward is tilted in your favour.

Current BTC Risk: 0.369 (Two weeks ago: 0.342)

Climbing steadily.

BTC Risk has now risen for three consecutive reporting periods - from the 0.303 low all the way to 0.369. The grind higher is becoming a trend, not a blip.

During the depths of the drawdown, this metric was compressing toward levels associated with generational buying opportunities. Now it's walking back up the ladder.

At 0.369, we're still in buyer-friendly territory. Anything below 0.5 historically favours accumulation over distribution. But the trajectory has clearly changed. The market is repricing risk to the upside for the first time in months.

What's driving it? Price reclaiming the $76,000 level. Four consecutive weeks of institutional inflows. The fundamental picture is starting to match the risk reset.

BTC Risk doesn't tell you when to buy. It tells you how stretched the opportunity is. And right now it's saying the deep discount phase is behind us - but the window hasn't closed yet. 📊

Robinhood Shares Slide on 34% Decrease in Crypto Revenue. Retail brokerage Robinhood missed earnings expectations by a cent as crypto transaction revenue fell 34% from the prior quarter, even as prediction markets helped offset the slowdown.

CFTC's AI will review U.S. crypto registration applications, chairman tells CoinDesk. CFTC Chair Michael Selig told CoinDesk that AI tools could flag incomplete crypto registration applications and help market surveillance

OKX lets institutions use BlackRock’s BUIDL fund as trading collateral. OKX added BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund to a Standard Chartered custody framework, letting eligible institutions use yield-bearing collateral while trading.

US SEC seeks comment on NYSE Arca proposal for 85% eligible-asset rule in crypto ETF listings. The SEC opened comment on a rule that could let commodity trusts hold a 15% sleeve of assets outside existing generic listing standards, widening the design space for crypto ETFs.

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