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Bitcoin Slides Below $60K, $1.5 B Liquidations Amid Jobs Report

6/5/2026

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Summary

Bitcoin Slides

Bitcoin fell 5.5% in 24 hours, slipping below $60,000 for the first time since October 2024.
The price reached $59,743 before a slight rebound.
The drop triggered about $1.5 billion in liquidated derivatives positions and sent altcoins sharply lower.
The U.S. jobs report showed 172,000 jobs added in May with unemployment steady at 4.3%, while the S&P 500 fell 1.7% and other major indices declined.

Summary

Antonelli: AI Displaces

Market strategist Michael Antonelli said AI has displaced crypto as the investment trend, shifting capital away.
Strategy Inc., co-founded by Michael Saylor, sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million, raising doubts about corporate Bitcoin treasuries.
Privacy-focused tokens slumped after a Zcash security flaw, with Zcash down over 50% and Monero down 17%.
The Cardano Foundation cancelled its summit after a failed community vote, pushing ADA to a six-year low.

Summary

Bitcoin Resistance

Bitcoin must clear the $65,000 resistance, a March 28 swing low, to give buyers control.
Strategy stock tests support between $116.49 and $101.39 at $115.87, down 8.4% today.
NASDAQ eyes hourly support near 26,048, matching the 200-hour average and a 38.2% retracement, with a break below its low of 26,103.91 targeting 25,694.60.
NASDAQ fell 2.66% while oil prices fell.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.64% while oil prices fell.

Summary

Bitcoin Billboard

A Bitcoin billboard illuminated Times Square in New York on Dec. 9, 2025, signaling the cryptocurrency’s mainstream visibility.
Bitcoin traded at $62,500, a 50% decline from its $126k all-time high reached in Oct. 2025.
Charles-Henry Monchau, chief investment officer of Syz Group, said forced selling and hot-money shifts to AI stocks, Korean memory chips and large IPOs drove the fall.

History

Historical Context

After Bitcoin surged to $19,783 on 17 December 2017, a sharp sell-off in January 2018 erased about 80 % of its value by September, marking the Great Crypto Crash. Corporate bets followed—MicroStrategy bought $2.4 billion of BTC in 2020 and Tesla invested $1.5 billion in early 2021—prompting regulators such as the U.S. Federal Reserve to monitor crypto volatility as systemic risk.

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Bitcoin Slides

Bitcoin fell 5.5% in 24 hours, slipping below $60,000 for the first time since October 2024.
The price reached $59,743 before a slight rebound.
The drop triggered about $1.5 billion in liquidated derivatives positions and sent altcoins sharply lower.
The U.S. jobs report showed 172,000 jobs added in May with unemployment steady at 4.3%, while the S&P 500 fell 1.7% and other major indices declined.

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