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Bitcoin drops below $62,000 as $1.5 billion in crypto longs get wiped out
BTC
BTC/USDT
$79,615.80
-1.77%
$79,615.80
-1.77%
(24s)24h Volume
$17,255,794,636.15
24h H/L
$81,423.03 / $78,660.00
Change: $2,763.03 (3.51%)
Long/Short
52.6%
Long: 52.6%Short: 47.4%
Funding Rate
-0.0014%
Shorts pay
Data provided by COINOTAG DATALive data
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CoinDesk Staff(02:13 AM UTC)
1 min read
Presto Research says bitcoin's drawdowns this year have coincided with rallies in AI stocks and gold as markets scale back expectations for Fed rate cuts.
Bitcoin plunged below $62,000 Thursday morning Hong Kong time, triggering more than $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours as a wave of forced selling accelerated the market's steepest decline in months.
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