Bitcoin’s market has settled into a clingy, clingy‑market fixation, while the Coinbase Premium Index has taken a nosy self‑decremental selfie, hinting that institutions are giving it the cold shoulder again.
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And just to prove it’s not entirely a one‑dimensional wail, the few treasure‑holding companies that still bother with Bitcoin kept buying, bringing their total to just over 717,000 BTC. American Bitcoin and Strive even had a little party of their own, buying in this very year.
Meanwhile, SoSoValue’s data says the spot Bitcoin ETF (yeah, the ones that should’ve been good for you) has seen mass exoduses. The funds have shed a tidy $8 billion in assets since last October, and the shower is still going.
Bloomberg has it this way: institutions have largely shrugged Bitcoin off because it’s a terrible hedger against inflation, market stress, and the lobbying side effect that the currency’s e‑debasement will definitely be for.
Bitcoin’s futures open interest has also taken a nosedive, currently standing at $44 billion compared to the $95 billion high last year. Borrowed exposure on the CME is dead quiet, like the quiet before a prank that nobody cares to pull.
Bitcoin price technical analysis suggests a crash
The daily chart is flashing red. The coin is slowly putting together a bearish pennant-so basically a part‑time ranger that’s started to get busy. It’s already hammered the vertical line and is buzzing over to the triangle section, which probably has its own party of its own.
The Supertrend indicator has been stubbornly red since January 19, and it’s been parked below the 50‑day and 100‑day Exponential Moving Averages, like that friend who hates park‑ah‑park‑ah in your driveway.
Bottom line: Bitcoin will likely keep falling, with its first stop set at the year‑to‑date low of $60,000. A spill below will tip it into the psychological $50,000 valley, as Standard Chartered analysts mentioned last week – an irony that’s basically the only thing left that can still say “below what?”
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2026-02-18 17:45