Bitcoin extended its slide below $71,000 in early Asian hours Tuesday, down 3.4% in the past 24 hours and 7.5% on the week, as the aftermath of Strategy’s first disclosed bitcoin sale weighed on the market while stocks paused at record highs and oil pushed further on the stalled U.S.-Iran ceasefire negotiations.
$BTC traded near $70,830 by Tuesday morning, with the 24-hour range stretching from a low of $70,120 to a high of $73,458, per CoinDesk data. Ether (ETH) hovered just below $2,000 at $1,996, sat flat at $0.10, XRP fell 3% to $1.28 and Solana’s SOL slipped 1.7% to $80.47.
Monday’s 8-K filing from Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, disclosed the company’s first publicized sale of bitcoin in the five years…






