
{"id":4225,"date":"2024-09-06T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2024-09-06T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:10:04","slug":"150m-in-liquidations-as-bitcoin-btc-price-falls-2-5k-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"$150M in Liquidations as Bitcoin (BTC) Price Falls $2.5K in Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin had finally seen a minor relief rally that drove it to $57,000 after the US jobs report when the bears reminded of their presence and pushed it south hard.<\/p>\n<p>The total liquidations have skyrocketed to about $150 million on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>The primary cryptocurrency has <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-btc-dropped-to-new-monthly-low-as-alts-bleed-out-market-watch\/\">faced its fair share of adversity<\/a> in the past week or so, as its price tumbled from $65,100 last Monday to $55,500 earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>This is when some positive news affected the market. As reported earlier today, the asset <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-reacts-to-us-jobs-report-and-declining-unemployment-rate\/\">jumped<\/a> to $57,000 after the US released the August jobs report, which outlined a minor decline in the unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was another short-lived rally that actually turned out to be a false breakout. Instead of further increasing on the hopes of upcoming rate cuts in the States, BTC quickly retraced hard.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of minutes, the asset slumped by about two and a half grand from $57,000 to $54,400. This became its lowest price tag in exactly a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BTCUSD-7.png\"><\/a>Bitcoin\/Price\/Chart 06.09.2024. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n<p>The altcoins followed suit, with ETH declining to $2,320, SOL dropping below $130, and XRP retracing to $0.53.<\/p>\n<p>This volatility has harmed over-leveraged traders as over 45,000 such market participants have been wrecked in the past day. The total value of liquidations is up to $150 million within the same timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>The single-largest wrecked position was a whooping one. It took place on HTX and was worth north of $13 million.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/150m-in-liquidations-as-bitcoin-btc-price-falls-2-5k-in-minutes\/\">$150M in Liquidations as Bitcoin (BTC) Price Falls $2.5K in Minutes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin had finally seen a minor relief rally that drove it to $57,000 after the US jobs report when the bears reminded of their presence and pushed it south hard. The total liquidations have skyrocketed to about $150 million on a daily basis. The primary cryptocurrency has faced its fair share of adversity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","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\/4225"}],"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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}