{"id":101376,"date":"2026-06-11T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=101376"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:03:10","slug":"bitcoin-etfs-still-hold-93-of-their-btc-are-institutions-not-bearish-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=101376","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ETFs Still Hold 93% Of Their BTC: Are Institutions Not Bearish After All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) ETF net assets have fallen back to election night levels, but analyst <strong>Scott Melker<\/strong> argues the dollar decline is price action not capitulation, with ETFs still holding 93% of their peak Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dollar Decline Is Misleading: Coins Tell A Different Story<\/h3>\n<p>Total ETF net assets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W5gOYsj2uCI&amp;t=720s\">peaked<\/a> at $169 billion in October 2025 and have since fallen 54% in dollar terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Bitcoin holdings only dropped from 1.37 million coins at the peak to 1.27 million today, a 7.2% decline. The $4.4 billion in net outflows over the record 13-session streak represents a real but small trim relative to total holdings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese ETFs still hold roughly 93% of the Bitcoin that they did at the very top,\u201d Melker said on Yahoo Finance. \u201cThe decline in price that\u2019s being reported is price. It &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53138894\/bitcoin-etfs-still-hold-93-of-their-btc-are-institutions-not-bearish-after-all?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" etfs still hold of their btc: are institutions not bearish after all>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ETF net assets have fallen back to election night levels, but analyst Scott Melker argues the dollar decline is price action not capitulation, with ETFs still holding 93% of their peak Bitcoin. The Dollar Decline Is Misleading: Coins Tell A Different Story Total ETF net assets peaked at $169 billion in October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-101376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}