Bitcoin Price Crashes To $67,000 Range, Down 13% In A Week

Bitcoin price has fallen below $68,000 on Tuesday, its lowest level since early April, battered by a multitude of forces. Some of them include Strategy’s first Bitcoin sale in three and a half years, a record ETF outflow streak, and fresh on-chain movement from the long-dormant Mt. Gox estate.

The catalyst that some think rattled markets was a disclosure from Strategy filed with the SEC on Monday. The company sold 32 Bitcoin between May 26 and May 31, fetching an average bitcoin price of $77,135 per coin for total proceeds of roughly $2.5 million. 

The sale is intended to fund distributions on STRC, Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock carrying an 11.5% annual variable dividend.

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