{"id":137263,"date":"2026-02-23T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=137263"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:05:35","slug":"btc-flash-dump-why-bitcoin-fell-4k-in-hours-and-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=137263","title":{"rendered":"BTC Flash Dump: Why Bitcoin Fell $4K in Hours and What Comes Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

It almost felt inevitable after the latest developments on Trump\u2019s tariff front that bitcoin\u2019s price would eventually head south after a relatively calm weekend.<\/p>\n

Recall that the US Supreme Court ruled<\/a> that many of the POTUS\u2019s tariffs imposed in the past year were illegal, determining that he should have been unable to use the IEEPA (a 1977 emergency law) to levy taxes on imports from almost all countries.<\/p>\n

Aside from calling the Court\u2019s decision a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d President Trump announced<\/a> a 10% temporary global tariff under Section 122 \u2013 a law that was never used before. A day later, he ramped up this taxation to 15%.<\/p>\n

As it happened several weeks ago during the most intense verbal battle for Greenland, the impact on bitcoin wasn\u2019t immediate. At the time, the tariff threats between the US and the EU took place<\/a> mostly during the weekend, and BTC stood still.<\/p>\n

However, once the legacy futures markets opened on Sunday afternoon, bitcoin slumped by several grand within an hour or so. This scenario repeated on February 22\/23 when the cryptocurrency plunged from $67,800 to a 17-day low of $64,350 (on Bitstamp). It found some support there and now sits close to $66,000.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s another substantial leg down, BTC\u2019s next key support levels could be at $58,500, $54,440, and $41,500, according to Ali Martinez, who cited the BTC holder cost basis.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin $BTC<\/a> holder cost basis highlights three key support levels:<\/p>\n

\u2022 $58,467
\n\u2022 $54,439
\n\u2022 $41,488 pic.twitter.com\/fievX4HpdA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ali Charts (@alicharts) February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n

The altcoins followed suit, with many dropping by over 5% within the same timeframe. The total value of liquidated positions has jumped to almost $500 million on CoinGlass. Longs are responsible for rouhgly 90% of that amount.<\/p>\n

Santiment also weighed in<\/a> on BTC\u2019s latest crash, indicating that the open interest has dropped to just $19.5 billion after the latest liquidation cascade, which is \u201cunder half of the 2026 peak of $38.3 billion back on January 14.\u201d<\/p>\n

The analytics company added that the social media FUD among retail investors has \u201cquickly gone into FUD mode, which can historically help propel a quick rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>BTC Latest Crash Review From Santiment<\/p>\n

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It almost felt inevitable after the latest developments on Trump\u2019s tariff front that bitcoin\u2019s price would eventually head south after a relatively calm weekend. Recall that the US Supreme Court ruled that many of the POTUS\u2019s tariffs imposed in the past year were illegal, determining that he should have been unable to use the IEEPA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":137264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}