
{"id":16442,"date":"2024-10-29T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2024-10-29T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:37:14","slug":"bitcoin-price-flirts-with-a-new-ath-leaving-over-100-million-shorts-liquidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=16442","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Flirts With a New ATH, Leaving Over $100 Million Shorts Liquidated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price seems to be on the verge of achieving a new all-time high in a massive rally leading up to the US Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The price managed to get as high as $73,600, which is less than $200 away from a new peak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BTCUSD_2024-10-29_21-28-18.png\"><\/a>Source: TradingView<\/p>\n<p>This has caused considerable turmoil in the derivatives market, leaving over $110 million worth of short positions underwater. At the time of this writing, the price has now retraced below $73,000, trading at an increase of over 4.2% during the past 24 hours alone.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that the total trading volume for spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US today reached a whopping $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This rally comes days before the country\u2019s most important political event: the presidential elections, which are scheduled for November 5th.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<em>CryptoPotato\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/massive-bitcoin-volatility-imminent-as-u-s-presidential-election-draws-near-bitfinex\/\">reported<\/a> earlier today, volatility is somewhat expected amongst market participants, given the importance of the election outcome. Currently, Donald Trump remains a heavy favorite on Polymarket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-29-at-21.35.25.png\"><\/a>Source: Polymarket<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-flirts-with-a-new-ath-leaving-over-100-million-shorts-liquidated\/\">Bitcoin Price Flirts With a New ATH, Leaving Over $100 Million Shorts Liquidated<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price seems to be on the verge of achieving a new all-time high in a massive rally leading up to the US Presidential elections. The price managed to get as high as $73,600, which is less than $200 away from a new peak. Source: TradingView This has caused considerable turmoil in the derivatives market, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16442","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\/16442"}],"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=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}