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Bitcoin Price Plunges To $59K, Sparking Fears Of Deeper Decline
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Key facts
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported non-farm payrolls rose to 172,000 in May 2026, more than double the Wall Street estimate of 85,000
- From $62,500, BTC fell sharply to around $59,000 following the release
- At the time of reporting, Bitcoin was trading at $59,990, down 6% in 24 hours, its lowest price since October 2024
- Spot Bitcoin ETFs have now recorded 14 consecutive sessions of outflows, with cumulative negative flows approaching $5 billion
Summary
Capital rotation into artificial intelligence may have played a bigger role in Bitcoin’s latest selloff than most market watchers initially assumed. Michael Saylor, whose company Strategy recently sold a portion of its Bitcoin holdings, pushed back on criticism and pointed instead to an unprecedented flow of money into AI infrastructure as a key factor behind the drop. He argued that capital markets have been funding the AI buildout at historic scale, roughly $400 billion over six months, and that the pressure on Bitcoin was a rotation of capital, not a sign of structural damage to the asset. SBI Holdings Chair Yoshitaka Kitao echoed that view, pointing to the upcoming IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI as likely draws pulling money away from crypto.