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Bitcoin Hits $64.5K Week-to-Date Low as Strategy Selling Fears Resurface

6/17/2026

$BTC slid to a week-to-date low of $64,500 before stabilizing around $65,000, as price pressure built heading into the Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

Market analysis flagged a specific concern: the prospect of Strategy offloading additional bitcoin at some point, a scenario analysts warned could weigh on price.

What Moved the Market The mechanism here is worth separating from the noise. The immediate selling pressure aligned with FOMC timing — a pattern familiar to anyone who has watched risk assets ahead of rate decisions.

Traders de-risked into the meeting, and $BTC absorbed the brunt of that repositioning at the $65,000 level.

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