By Alex Ioannou

BTC USD is bleeding again, and the chart isn’t pretty. Bitcoin is trading just above $61,000, down roughly -2.9% in 24 hours, with sellers firmly in control of short-term price action. The interesting part? Smaller investors are doing something surprising, and on-chain data hints at what might come next.

The selloff has been relentless. Bitcoin wiped out over $120M in long liquidations within a single 24-hour window, as the price broke through a key descending trendline that has capped momentum since mid-March.

ETF flows continue to be negative, too; net outflows exceeding $70M in yesterday’s session suggest institutions are no longer providing the dip-buying cushion they once did. Macro headwinds are real: rising geopolitical tensions and a hawkish US trade stance have pushed capital toward safety.

Can Bitcoin Price Recover From $61K or Is a Deeper Drop Coming?

Price is caught in a bearish short-term structure. Bitcoin trades below a descending resistance line that has held since mid-March, with RSI hovering near 38, weak but not yet deeply oversold. That middle zone is uncomfortable: not panicked enough to signal a clean bottom, not strong enough to confirm a reversal.

Key levels to watch: immediate support sits at the $59,000–$60,000 zone (already under pressure given current prices), with a failure there opening the door toward $58,000 and potentially lower. Resistance above is stacked: a descending trendline near $63,500–$65,000, then the psychologically loaded $70,000 pivot, and finally the major reclaim zone at $82,000–$84,000 that bulls need to reassert any longer-term narrative.

$BTC tries to hold the 60.8K PDL.

I'm leaning bearish for today as Bitcoin isn't looking convincing here.

We can all see the liquidity resting above us at 65K and 68K+, so it would be typical to frontun that and dump from here.

We're still trading within the previous daily… pic.twitter.com/6Wsjwn2VsB

— Lennaert Snyder (@LennaertSnyder) June 10, 2026

Three scenarios are on the table right now:

• Bull case: BTC USD holds current levels, retail accumulation builds a floor, and a weekly close above $67,500 flips short-term momentum. Whale wallets re-enter, confirming trend reversal.

• Base case: Choppy consolidation between $60,000–$67,000 as the market digests leverage and waits for a macro catalyst. Slow, painful sideways grind.

• Bear case: Failure to hold $60,000 triggers a capitulation flush, with the low $50,000s likely in play.

Worth noting is that historical Bitcoin bear traps have often been most convincing right before the reversal. Santiment data show that wallets holding less than 0.01 BTC increased their collective holdings by 0.36% over two weeks. Whales (10–10,000 BTC wallets) trimmed by 0.20% over the same period — that divergence is the real tension in this market right now.

Bitcoin Hyper Targets Early Mover Upside While BTC USD Tests Critical Support

Here is the uncomfortable truth about buying BTC USD at $61,000: even in a recovery scenario, the upside to prior highs is roughly 35–40% from here. That is nothing, but it is a very different risk/reward than earlier in the cycle. For investors watching Bitcoin’s ceiling get lower with each rejection, early-stage Bitcoin infrastructure plays are attracting serious attention as an alternative.

Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) is positioning itself as the first Bitcoin Layer 2 with Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) integration, combining Bitcoin’s security with execution speeds its developers claim surpass Solana’s.

The pitch is straightforward: Bitcoin is slow, expensive, and not programmable; Bitcoin Hyper aims to fix all three through extremely low-latency processing, low-cost transactions, and a Decentralized Canonical Bridge for seamless BTC transfers.

The presale has raised $32,813,535.06 at a current price of $0.0136814 per token, with staking rewards available for early participants. The project has been turning heads for its Bitcoin L2 approach,

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