Bitcoin sank to $67,922 within a day, its lowest point since mid-August, and lost about 9.5% over the week. The price is back where the summer recovery began.
The selloff hit the whole market. Ethereum trades near $1,950, Solana slipped below $80, and total crypto market capitalization shrank 4.6% in a day to $2.39 trillion.
A $67,922 low and 21% off the autumn peak
According to Decrypt, bitcoin has rolled back roughly 21% from its autumn peak near $86,000. It still sits 16% above the June bottom near $59,000, so most of the summer gain is erased, but not all of it. The daily relative strength index (RSI) fell to 25.4, and anything under 30 counts as oversold.
The chart is a run of lower highs and lower lows. An ADX reading of 25.3 says the trend is already established.
The break below $69,000 came from a concentrated liquidation of leveraged longs. That is how Tim Sun, a senior analyst at Hashkey, put it to Decrypt. The deeper cause, he said, is weaker demand.
Three pillars of the rally are weakening at once
Sun named three sources of capital that carried the rally, namely ETFs, stablecoin supply and corporate treasuries. All three are under pressure now.
"ETFs, stablecoin liquidity and corporate treasuries have served as the primary capital pillars supporting this Bitcoin rally. With all three coming under simultaneous pressure, the market is losing the marginal buying power that previously propelled prices higher."
- Tim Sun, senior analyst at Hashkey, comment to Decrypt
One by one. Thursday saw $47.7 million leave the funds, extending the streak. Cumulative net inflows still stand near $55.5 billion, so institutions have not run, but they are nervous.
Stablecoin supply, led by USDT, is shrinking too, which means less fresh money for buying crypto. The third factor is Strategy: index provider MSCI is removing the company from its indexes, even though Decrypt counts $19.5 billion in profit for it. Strategy shares lost about 5% on the news.
Inflation brings a rate hike back into the conversation
Core consumer prices rose 0.3% in October against a 0.2% forecast. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said earlier that he backs a hike of at least 25 basis points at the December 8-9 meeting, and with data like this a bigger move may be needed.
The market already prices it in. As of November 13, futures show a 91.9% chance of a quarter-point hike and 8.1% for a half-point. The current target range is 3.75-4.00%.
The producer price index added pressure: wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, below the forecast, but 6.5% year over year, the biggest annual jump since 2022. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said he does not see a path back to 2%, because inflation has spread beyond energy and tariffs.
Jensen Huang's exit added panic in tech
A separate blow came from outside crypto. Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia CEO and left the board after reports about his affairs. CFO Colette Kress took over as interim chief.
Nvidia shares tumbled. AMD and Broadcom rose, while Nvidia-backed CoreWeave sank. Sun said the turmoil in tech cut risk appetite and set off position-cutting that piled more pressure on bitcoin. Cointelegraph reported that BTC briefly touched its lowest level since August 20.
What has to change for a bounce
None of the three causes is resolved, so signals for a reversal have to be tracked separately.
- ETF flows. Several days of net inflows in a row would show the selling is running out of steam.
- The Fed meeting on December 8-9, where the market is almost sure of a 25 basis point hike.
- The return of "long-term allocation capital", as Sun called it: without it, bounces stay short.
- Calm in tech stocks after the leadership change at Nvidia.
The Myriad prediction platform gives 74% odds that bitcoin closes today in the $68,000-$70,000 range.
The bottom line in numbers
Down 21% from the peak, down 9.5% on the week, $1.49 billion out of ETFs and a near-certain rate hike in December. An RSI of 25.4 hints that selling is stretched, but an oversold market can stay that way for weeks. If ETFs do not return to buying, the price risks a test of the June bottom near $59,000. That is a scenario, not a forecast.
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