Bitcoin Bear Market: Milder Trend Signals Institutional Shift
The post Bitcoin Bear Market: Milder Trend Signals Institutional Shift appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Something unusual is happening in the current bitcoin bear market — and it has less to do with price charts than with who is actually holding the asset. According to Bitwise Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon, this downturn is structurally the mildest bitcoin has ever seen, and the reasons why point to a fundamental shift in how the market works. Key takeaways The current bitcoin drawdown of 50% is significantly smaller than the 78% swing in 2022 and the 84% drop in 2018, making it bitcoin’s mildest structural bear market on record. Institutional clients are split: some are dollar-cost averaging into the dip, while others are waiting for regulatory clarity before committing capital. Since April, spot bitcoin ETFs have seen over $4 billion in outflows, while memory-chip ETFs attracted roughly $12 billion in inflows — a gap Bitwise expects to reverse. The Clarity Act, if passed