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"textContent": "Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations. Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly […]\n\nThe post Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this capitulation or just a leverage reset? appeared first on CryptoSlate.",
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