Dominic Chu (Senior Markets Correspondent) 00:00.860
bitcoin prices under pressure again today just a hovering maybe around eighty seven thousand right now down twenty percent over the past three months mackenzie sagalos joins us now with a potential cautionary signal for crypto bulls heading into twenty twenty six mac what can
Dominic Chu (Senior Markets Correspondent) 00:15.420
you tell us
MacKenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:16.540
hey dom so the structural buyers that were supposed to put a floor under bitcoin are stepping back strategy the biggest corporate holder of BTC just this week disclosing that it's stockpiling cash instead of adding to its position they liquidated seven hundred and fifty million
MacKenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:30.710
dollars in shares to add to a newly formed reserve for dividends and debt payments that fund didn't exist a month ago and now has two point two billion dollars in its coffers in the spot bitcoin etfs aren't picking up the slack flows have been net negative for five consecutive
MacKenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:45.750
trading days so now you've got thinner liquidity the reliable buyers on the sidelines and more speculative retail as the marginal bid which means that every downdraft is hitting harder now the next potential forced seller event hits january fifteenth msci decides whether to boot
MacKenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 01:02.310
strategy and other crypto heavy companies from its indexes arguing that they look more like investment funds than operating businesses JP morgan estimates that could trigger up to nearly nine billion dollars in passive outflows from strategy if other index providers followed
MacKenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 01:16.750
their lead and it's not just strategy feeling the pressure the broader digital asset treasury trade is unwinding bitcoin immersion the biggest ethereum treasury play backed by tom lee is down more than eighty percent from his summer highs dom
Dominic Chu (Senior Markets Correspondent) 01:31.870
all right mackenzie sakalos thank you very much for that