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Keep Calm, Bulls Are Here, Say Analysts, As USD 19B Liquidated In One Week
23.4.2021
Options expiring, US tax speculations, China blackout, and the combination of these are blamed for the crypto market turning bloody today, to say the least - yet numerous insiders see this as just a necessary correction and expect that the bull market will continue, with bitcoin (BTC) possibly...
Bitcoin Dips Below USD 50K, Ethereum Drops, USD 3.5B Liquidated
23.4.2021
Bitcoin price struggled to clear the USD 55,500 resistance and it started a fresh decline. BTC declined below the USD 53,200 and USD 52,000 support levels. It even spiked below USD 50,000 and it is currently (04:30 UTC) correcting losses.
Similarly, most major altcoins declined heavily. ETH traded...
Obsessed Amateur Crypto Traders Are 'Disproportionately Liquidated'
20.4.2021
Inexperienced and small crypto derivatives traders are outperformed by more savvy players and their positions are "disproportionately liquidated," according to a recent study by researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab.
They analyzed publicly available trading data from...
Almost USD 10 Billion Liquidated Amid Sunday Selloff In Crypto Market
18.4.2021
USD 9.9bn worth of trading positions in the crypto derivatives market were liquidated in the past 24 hours as the crypto market experienced a sharp selloff on Sunday.
More than USD 5bn of them are positions in bitcoin (BTC).
At around 03:00 UTC, BTC dropped from USD 59,000 to below USD 53,000,...
Over USD 620M XRP Positions Liquidated While Ripple CTO Educates Investors
15.4.2021
David Schwartz. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/UNCHAIN Convention
Over the past two days, more than USD 620m worth of XRP traders' overleveraged positions were liquidated, as XRP fans became too optimistic about the recent rally, while David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer of Ripple...
$420M in leveraged long traders liquidated after XRP rallies to $1.96
15.4.2021
XRP price dropped by 20% shortly after making a 2021 high at $1.96, but have the altcoin’s bullish fundamentals changed?
Have Crypto Traders Learned? "Only" USD 600M Liquidated In One Hour
31.3.2021
Another wave of liquidations hit the crypto market on the last day of the first quarter of 2021, possibly clearing the way for a further bitcoin (BTC) rally in April.
More than USD 600m in cryptoasset trading positions was liquidated in one hour today (08:34 UTC), bringing total liquidations...
Rinse & Repeat, and Never Learn: Another USD 1B Liquidated In One Hour
15.3.2021
Overleveraged and overly optimistic crypto traders once again lost billions amid a selloff in the crypto market.
More than USD 1bn in cryptoasset trading positions was liquidated in one hour today, bringing total liquidations to more than USD 2.3bn in the past 24 hours (194,539 positions...
$5.64 billion liquidated in 24 hours as Bitcoin extends losses — Is a relief rally near?
23.2.2021
A staggering $5.64 billion worth of futures positions was liquidated in the last 24 hours as the price of Bitcoin dropped 17%
Another USD 1B Liquidated In One Hour As Crypto Selloff Intensifies
23.2.2021
After more than USD 4bn in cryptoasset trading position was liquidated yesterday, another USD 1bn was liquidated today in just one hour as a selloff in the crypto market intensified, increasing bitcoin (BTC)'s dominance.
Almost 91% of the liquidated positions are long positions, while BTC accounts...
Troubled NZ Crypto Exchange Cryptopia Suffers Another Hack in the Midst of Liquidation Process
20.2.2021
Controversy still surrounds a liquidated New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, which allegedly got hacked again. Adding to the $30 million stolen in 2019, Cryptopia reports that it was the target of a another theft incident on February 1, 2021. Hackers Accessed a Dormant Wallet Which Holds...
USD 1.9B Liquidated As Overexuberant Crypto Traders Get Overleveraged
15.2.2021
Around USD 1.9bn in 281,000 trading positions have been liquidated in a day as the market corrected sharply, per bybt.com data. Around 90% of the liquidations were of long positions, suggesting that overly optimistic traders were using margin trading to open large positions in the hope of bitcoin...
$1.89 billion liquidated: Why did Bitcoin and ETH price correct sharply overnight?
15.2.2021
More than $1.89 billion worth of cryptocurrency futures positions were liquidated in the last 24 hours, as Bitcoin and Ether sharply dropped
$500M in crypto futures liquidated as Bitcoin dips below $34K: What happens next?
17.1.2021
The cryptocurrency market saw over $500 million worth of positions liquidated in the last 24 hours as Bitcoin slid below $34,000
While Bitcoin Tapped New Price Highs, 78,000 Short Positions Worth Over $800 Million Got Liquidated
2.1.2021
While bitcoin has crossed a new all-time price high in 2021, traders are leery toward shorting the crypto asset. Data from Bitfinex shows the number of short contracts has been extremely low in comparison to the total number of shorts in mid-March 2020. On Saturday, January 2, 2021, when the price...
Weekend Market Action Sees Bitcoin Touch $24K, $1 Billion in Short Positions Liquidated
20.12.2020
Bitcoin and the crypto economy continue to see strong gains, as the price of the leading crypto-asset touched an all-time high on Saturday, December 19, 2020. That morning around 11:45 a.m. EST, bitcoin touched a price high at $24,217, but got pushed below the $24k handle shortly after. The entire...
Claims process begins for creditors of liquidated crypto exchange Cryptopia
9.12.2020
A claims process for Cryptopia creditors has started following a 2019 hack
Canadian Public Company Dumps Ethereum and Monero for Bitcoin
30.11.2020
A Canadian publicly held company has liquidated all of its ethereum and monero holdings and put all of the proceeds into bitcoin. The company is led by a well-known poker player and former member of the European Parliament. Cypherpunk Dumps Monero and Ethereum for Bitcoin Cypherpunk Holdings,...
$100 Million Liquidated on Defi Protocol Compound Following Oracle Exploit
27.11.2020
Lenders on decentralized finance (defi) protocol Compound on Thursday got liquidated for a massive $103 million, according to analytics provider Loanscan. This happened after what appears to be an oracle exploit on the Dai stablecoin. An apparent error or malicious attack to the Dai-dollar-peg data...
Some loans on Maker are never liquidated, prompting debt auction overhaul
16.11.2020
Small loans for $100 are uninteresting to liquidators, and they're cheap to stack up