{"id":584765,"date":"2026-04-16T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/bitcoin-funding-rate-stays-negative-even-as-btc-price-trades-above-75k-what-gives\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:53:09","slug":"bitcoin-funding-rate-stays-negative-even-as-btc-price-trades-above-75k-what-gives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/bitcoin-funding-rate-stays-negative-even-as-btc-price-trades-above-75k-what-gives\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin funding rate stays negative even as BTC price trades above $75K: What gives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDk4MGQtYzQ5MC03NDI5LWFkZGEtNjQ5YzMxOGIyZDM3LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin funding rate stays negative even as BTC price trades above $75K: What gives?\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s futures funding rate has remained negative even as BTC bounced back above $75,000. Should traders be worried?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Negative Bitcoin futures funding rates signal bear-market losses and forced liquidations rather than a shift in sentiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Institutional inflows into Bitcoin ETFs and corporate accumulation suggest that spot demand remains solid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-funding-rate-stays-negative-even-as-btc-price-trades-above-75k-what-gives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s futures funding rate has remained negative even as BTC bounced back above $75,000. Should traders be worried? Key takeaways: Negative Bitcoin futures funding rates signal bear-market losses and forced liquidations rather than a shift in sentiment.\u00a0 Institutional inflows into Bitcoin ETFs and corporate accumulation suggest that spot demand remains solid. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}