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Alarm bells are going off around bitcoin, with most of the headlines focusing on the biggest bitcoin treasury company's very big decision to sell a small amount of bitcoin.

Why it matters: A bitcoin sale by Michael Saylor's Strategy has drawn outsize attention, but geopolitical uncertainty and competition from stocks are posing bigger near-term risks to the cryptocurrency's price.

State of play: Some $2.8 billion left U.S.-listed spot-bitcoin ETFs in nine-straight sessions through May 28 — the longest stretch of withdrawals in the funds' two-year history, Bloomberg noted.