{"id":37521,"date":"2026-03-07T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=37521"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:30:49","slug":"bitcoin-etfs-bleed-349m-in-a-day-as-whales-dump-small-buyers-step-in-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=37521","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $349M In A Day As Whales Dump, Small Buyers Step In: Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spot Bitcoin ETFs listed in the US recorded their steepest single-day outflow in nearly three weeks on Friday, with $349 million pulled from all 11 products combined, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/farside.co.uk\/bitcoin-etf-flow-all-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Farside<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawals came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bitcoin<\/a> slid back toward $68,000 after briefly touching $74,000 earlier in the week \u2014 a run-up that, based on on-chain data, appears to have been the trigger for a significant wave of selling by large holders.<\/p>\n<h2>Big Holders Bought Low, Then Sold Fast<\/h2>\n<p>Crypto analytics platform <a href=\"https:\/\/app.santiment.net\/insights\/read\/this-week-in-crypto-full-written-summary-w1-march-2026-10624?utm_source=weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=year2026week9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Santiment<\/a> tracked the behavior of wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 Bitcoin \u2014 a group commonly referred to as whales \u2014 and found they had been building positions aggressively between Feb. 23 and March 3, when prices were stuck in the $62,900 to $69,600 range.<\/p>\n<p>Once Bitcoin crossed $74,000 on Wednesday, those same wallets began offloading. By Friday, roughly 66% of what they had accumulated over that 10-day window had been sold back into the market.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller investors moved in the opposite direction. Wallets holding less than 0.01 Bitcoin \u2014 the retail end of the market \u2014 have been adding to their positions as prices fell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-886214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_77344b.png?resize=908%2C517\" alt=\"\" width=\"908\" height=\"517\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Santiment, that kind of divergence between large and small holders has historically pointed to more downside ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen retail buys while whales sell, it typically signals that the correction is not yet over,\u201d the platform said in a Friday report.<\/p>\n<h2>Fear Gauge Drops To Its Lowest Reading In Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s slide pushed the Crypto <a href=\"https:\/\/alternative.me\/crypto\/fear-and-greed-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fear &amp; Greed<\/a> Index down six points to a score of 12 on Saturday, placing it deep in \u201cExtreme Fear\u201d territory. The index measures market sentiment across a range of factors including volatility, trading volume, and social media activity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-886216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a_757b9d.png?resize=773%2C342\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some analysts said that Bitcoin could still face another drop if buyers fail to defend the current price zone. A loss of support around the $67,000\u2013$68,000 range may trigger a move back toward recent lows to gather liquidity before any potential rebound.<\/p>\n<p>An Economist\u2019s Case For A $60K Floor<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone sees a breakdown coming. Economist Timothy Peterson pointed to the Bitcoin Price to Metcalfe Value chart \u2014 a model that measures Bitcoin\u2019s price against the estimated value of its network based on user activity \u2014 and said the $60,000 level has held as a bottom in every prior cycle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/zBYD4Sbc\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1027\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cAbout 99.5% chance it stays above $60k,\u201d Peterson wrote on X.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bitcoin had already tested that level once this cycle, falling to $60,000 on Feb. 6 during a broader pullback from an all-time high of $126,000 set in October.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it has managed a partial recovery, though Friday\u2019s ETF outflows and the continued whale selling suggest the market has not yet found stable footing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Shutterstock, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot Bitcoin ETFs listed in the US recorded their steepest single-day outflow in nearly three weeks on Friday, with $349 million pulled from all 11 products combined, according to data from Farside. The withdrawals came as Bitcoin slid back toward $68,000 after briefly touching $74,000 earlier in the week \u2014 a run-up that, based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $349M In A Day As Whales Dump, Small Buyers Step In: Analysts - Cryptomag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=37521\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $349M In A Day As Whales Dump, Small Buyers Step In: Analysts - Cryptomag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spot Bitcoin ETFs listed in the US recorded their steepest single-day outflow in nearly three weeks on Friday, with $349 million pulled from all 11 products combined, according to data from Farside. 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