Svmuu News Bitcoin The latest round of declines has exposed the cost of the scale and legitimacy brought by Wall Street; retail buyers, who once helped absorb sharp drops, have largely disappeared. According to data from Deutsche Bank AG, as many investors have rotated into AI-related investments, the pool of new retail buyers has largely dried up, and institutional demand has begun to lose momentum.
Analyst Marion Laboure noted that marginal buyers are no longer retail investors but rather ETF allocators or corporate treasury departments; investors have withdrawn over $6 billion from the Bitcoin ETF.Bitcoinis currently trading at $75,699 below Strategy’s average cost, and the market has begun to price in the possibility of forced liquidations among leveraged fund holders. With retail participation stagnant, prices are increasingly influenced by institutional capital flows and competition in the AI sector. (Bloomberg)