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$BTC Pulls Back Toward $60,000 as Strategy Shares and Rate Fears Converge

6/18/2026

Bitcoin retreated toward the $60,000 level, with Bloomberg attributing the move to selling pressure tied to Strategy shares and resurfacing interest-rate fears.

The pairing of an equity-linked bitcoin holder under pressure with a hawkish rate narrative is a double headwind $BTC has absorbed before. Neither driver came from the protocol itself — this is a macro trade.

Strategy Shares: The Equity-Crypto Feedback Loop Strategy occupies an unusual position in the market as a publicly traded company whose equity is, in practice, a leveraged expression of bitcoin exposure.

When its shares face selling pressure, the concern is that the underlying bitcoin position could become a source of forced or anticipated liquidation.

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