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Bitcoin -50%, Record ETF Exits & MiCA Wipes 80% of EU Platforms
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Bitcoin sits 50% below its all-time high despite the most crypto-friendly U.S. administration ever, as June ETF outflows hit a record $4.06 billion and MiCA clears out 80% of European crypto platforms. Today's briefing covers the macro forces crushing prices, whale accumulation signals, SBI mining pool closure, India's double rejection, Brazil's tighter rules, and Solana's breakout.
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Bitcoin is down fifty percent from its all-time high, sitting near sixty thousand dollars, even as the most crypto-friendly administration in U.S. history racks up win after win on regulation. That's the central tension in markets right now, and it's worth understanding precisely why policy tailwinds haven't translated into price support.
On the institutional side, June posted record spot ETF outflows of four point zero six billion dollars. That's worse than February twenty twenty-five, which was the previous low.
There's a structural story developing in Bitcoin mining that deserves attention. SBI Crypto is closing its mining pool on July thirty-first, displacing roughly two point two percent of total Bitcoin hashrate.
Europe's regulatory picture sharpened on July first. The MiCA transitional deadline left just two hundred and forty-four authorized crypto asset service providers standing from a pre-MiCA registration base of over three thousand.
India presented a different regulatory posture this week. The Reserve Bank of India formally rejected granting legal status to crypto before a parliamentary standing committee, reaffirming over a decade of opposition in its most direct public testimony yet.
Brazil finalized a tighter regulatory package for crypto platforms, effective January first, twenty twenty-seven. Higher capital buffers, formal risk management requirements, and expanded reporting obligations bring the framework closer to traditional finance parity.
One counter-narrative in an otherwise weak market: Solana is up roughly fifteen percent since early June while Bitcoin hit twenty-one-month lows. Protocol upgrades and a hundred and twenty percent surge in tokenized real-world asset transfers on-chain, now at eight point five three billion dollars, are driving that momentum.
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