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BREAKING: Bitcoin demand gauge sinks to worst level since December as spot buying weakens

Stocks are doing the one thing Bitcoin bulls have been waiting for…

Global equities have been continuously surging to record highs, risk appetite clearly hasn't disappeared, and yet Bitcoin is still hovering around $75,000.

That's the hard part.

If crypto was being dragged lower by a broad risk-off market, this would be easier to explain.

But the cleaner read is that Bitcoin's got its own demand problem right now.

On 26 May, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw another $333.6 million leave the products.

BlackRock's IBIT alone lost $192.4 million, Fidelity's FBTC lost $57.7 million, Bitwise's BITB lost $28.8 million, and GBTC lost $41.3 million.

The last twelve trading days have seen $2.73 billion in net outflows.

CryptoQuant recently said Bitcoin's apparent demand has fallen to -147,000 BTC, its weakest level since December 2025.

The Coinbase Premium has also been negative since late April, which means U.S. spot buyers still aren't exactly chasing.

The other issue is positioning.

CoinDesk noted that retail leverage is building while Bitcoin lags record global equities.

Cointelegraph also flagged Bitcoin moving into a high-risk zone as ETF flows deteriorate.

With all that said…

The $75,000 level has become more than just another number.

If Bitcoin can hold this area while stocks stay strong, the current weakness may end up looking like a reset.

If it loses it with ETF outflows still running, the market gets a much cleaner warning that institutional demand has paused at the exact moment it was supposed to show up.

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Fred Krueger just dropped one of the most important reminders for any Bitcoin holder.

Krueger is a Stanford PhD mathematician, former Wall Street prop trader, and author of "Bitcoin One Million: The Final Chapter of Fiat."

His frameworks around the asset are some of the sharpest in the space.

This week he tweeted this:

The Bogle reference is brilliant. The founder of Vanguard built an empire on one insight.

Most investors lose money not because they pick the wrong assets, but because they can't stop touching them.

The math is brutal. Miss the best 10 days in Bitcoin from 2017 to 2024 and your 847% return becomes -23%.

The biggest gains happen on a handful of unpredictable days. The only way to catch them is to sit. Hold. Do nothing.

Big money is in waiting. Always has been. Always will be. 🧘

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: 0.370 (Two weeks ago: 0.392)

A step back down.

After four consecutive increases that carried BTC Risk from the 0.303 floor to 0.392, the metric has pulled back for the first time in months. The steady grind higher has paused.

What caused the dip? The same geopolitical uncertainty and fund outflows that rattled markets last week. Risk sentiment cooled alongside price, and BTC Risk reflected that.

But context matters here. A pullback from 0.392 to 0.370 keeps us firmly in buyer-friendly territory. We're still well below the 0.5 midpoint, still in the zone that historically favours accumulation.

Think of it as the market taking a breath. The deep discount phase around 0.3 is behind us. The neutral zone above 0.5 remains some distance away. And a single dip after four straight increases looks more like a healthy reset than a trend reversal. 📊

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