Bitcoin’s footing had dropped to $20,000 by the beginning of the week. Investors who previously thought that bitcoin would recover were now uncertain. Although there were more sales than usual, this decline was less severe than expected. The digital asset is now showing a recovery trend and traders that had been betting against it’s ability to go up are in distress.
Bitcoin Short Traders Suffer Losses
Bitcoin started to recover shortly after CPI revealed that the United States’ inflation rate had reached an all-time high of 8.1%. Investors began to explore other ways to safeguard their assets from inflation. The 9.1% mark was the highest ever recorded in American history. It led to a flood of capital into the Bitcoin market.
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Many traders that had placed bets against bitcoin suffered losses during the recovery. Coinglass data showed that liquidations of almost $200 million have occurred in the past 24 hours. Most liquidations came from short traders. In total, there have been more than 57,800 traders liquidated and at a percentage of 83.91%, more than 48,000 traders who were betting against the crypto market’s recovery have suffered losses.
Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com| Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com
The liquidations are not slowing down, even though time passes. The liquidation figures have risen to 54 million in the past 12 hours. The liquidations in the last 4 hours were $21million. As the recovery progresses, this will likely increase.
Ethereum is the Leader
When market liquidations have been calculated in most cases bitcoin takes the lead. But this time it is not true. Another liquidator took the lead. Ethereum’s recovery over the last day had been just as dramatic as that of bitcoin and short traders were caught in the wave.
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This cryptocurrency is responsible for most liquidations in the past day. It ranks second on the market. The cryptocurrency has had more than 72.64KETH liquidated. That’s more than $90million. The usual leader in Bitcoin liquidations has seen only half of the total value.
ETH liquidations increase | Source: Coinglass
On a twelve-hour basis the same holds, though bitcoin is slowly catching up. Ethereum leads, although by a lesser margin.
MATIC and SOL were also among the cryptocurrencies with high liquidations within the last 24 hours. They had respective sales of $8.52 and $5.93 millions, and $2.81million, respectively.
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