Bitcoin’s decline continued a structural pattern observed in markets: Bitcoin trades 24/7, every day of the week, while stocks, bonds, and commodities markets are closed on weekends. This makes Bitcoin one of the few large liquidity assets that can be immediately liquidated during geopolitical risk surges when traditional markets are shut.As a result, whenever major geopolitical events erupt over the weekend, Bitcoin often acts as a “pressure valve” for market risk sentiment—absorbing sell-offs that might otherwise spill over into stocks, commodities, and currencies when markets reopen. This drop brought Bitcoin back to levels not seen since the sharp decline on February 5 (when it briefly fell below $60,000), continuing its typical pattern of falling first and rebounding later under macro shocks.