Bitcoin Price Prediction: Not Just ETFs, Corporate BTC Buying Spree Has Collapsed

BTC USD is bleeding from two wounds. Bitcoin price is trading below 50% of its all-time high, as the usual institutional backstops are stepping away, tipping the prediction scale bearish. Alarming?

Analysts at Glassnode flagged the collapse in a recent market update: “As BTC broke down from the mid-$70Ks toward $60K, net inflows from corporate treasury firms fell sharply, with daily purchases slowing to a fraction of their recent pace.”

Digital asset treasury (DAT) demand from firms like Strategy that accumulate BTC as a core business has practically evaporated in June. The buying spree is down from multiple instances of $500 million+ in daily accumulation through April and May.

I was never a huge fan of DATs, but I supported the idea. These entities were pure holders, much more stable than people buying and selling ETFs or speculating on exchanges… even closer to the original hodlers, the OGs.

The whole model was buy and hold, raise capital, buy… pic.twitter.com/PGI9O7BINU

Strategy itself disclosed it sold 32 BTC in the final week of May, then re-entered during the dip with a $100 million purchase, yet it failed to arrest the slide below $60,000. Two demand pillars, one crack.

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Bitcoin is navigating its most technically fragile zone since the cycle’s early days. Price is hovering near $62,000, well below the psychologically critical $70,000, and a deeper correction under $75,000 breached.

Bernstein maintains a constructive long-term view, calling the current cycle “elongated” and pointing to “more sticky institutional buying” as an offset to retail outflows, with a 2026 target of $150,000 and a cycle extension scenario near $200,000 by 2027. Standard Chartered echoes that range. Published 2026 forecasts span $75,000 to $225,000, a gap wide enough to drive a truck through.

Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations are explicitly tied to Bitcoin’s Q4 upside case across multiple outlooks. Without this catalyst, the path of least resistance remains sideways to lower.

Bitcoin needs its ETF inflows to stabilize, corporate treasury buying resumes above $200M/day, and rate cuts materialize. If those happen, BTC could target above $100,000 by year-end. But it seems likely that demand will recover slowly and see BTC consolidate between $60,000–$70,000 through the summer.

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