Bitcoin dropped below $80,000 on Thursday after September PPI came in at 6.3% annually, a day after a hot CPI report. CoinGlass counted $948.22 million of liquidations, 90.6% of them longs, and Nexo says US spot ETF holders are back underwater.
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Bitcoin dipped below $80,000 and recovered to about $82,500 within hours, coindesk.com and Bitcoin News reported. The sources tie it more firmly to Fed rate-hike odds after hot CPI than to chip stocks, and the chip link rests on one session.
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More than $106 million of Ether longs were liquidated on Binance within an hour of September's CPI release, CryptoQuant's Darkfost reported. Ether fell nearly 6% to about $2,350, with derivatives volume near nine times spot.
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Ethereum drops to $2,362 after its biggest liquidation event in six months
Long positions were over 92% of Ethereum liquidations on October 15, Cryptopolitan reported, in the biggest liquidation event in six months. The same report's positioning data suggests much of that leverage has already been cleared.
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Crypto's $876 million long liquidation flush hit a market stuffed with leverage, with longs up to 92% of liquidations at the peak
Leveraged crypto longs lost more than $876 million to liquidation in 24 hours, Crypto Briefing reported. A second tracker's October 15 tally puts longs at 84.5% of liquidations, under the 88% to 92% peak share.
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Bitcoin climbed 3.1% off an $80,948 low by midday as the chip index fell for a fifth session
Bitcoin traded near $83,445 at midday Tuesday, up 3.1% from an $80,948 low after a liquidation wave. Wednesday's inflation report is the next test of whether JPMorgan's miss and the chip selloff drove the swing or leveraged positioning did.
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SanDisk perpetuals out-liquidated XRP by $310,000 in an $803 million crypto wipeout
Crypto exchanges liquidated about $803 million in leveraged positions over 24 hours, 86% of them longs, according to CoinGlass. SanDisk perpetual futures took $19.09 million of that, ahead of XRP's $18.78 million.
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Longs took 83% of the $488.6 million liquidated as Bitcoin slid below $82,000
Bitcoin's drop below $82,000 on Monday liquidated $488.61 million of leveraged positions across 118,142 traders, 83.2% of it longs, Coinglass data show. The longs that survived carry their positions into Wednesday's CPI report.
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Bitcoin trades 1.3% above the $81,300 support that a hot CPI print would test
Bitcoin slid 1.5% to about $82,400 on Monday as Coinglass logged $304.24 million of liquidations before the Oct. 14 CPI print. Only $63.21 million of that was bitcoin longs and shorts, so the rest of the forced trading happened elsewhere in crypto.
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Hyperliquid whale rebuilds its ether long 8% above the next forced sale
One Hyperliquid whale lost 28,716 ETH, worth $69.69 million, to forced liquidation on Oct. 9, then posted 10 million USDC of fresh margin within half an hour. Its rebuilt 78,955 ETH long now liquidates about 8% below the market, Bitcoin.com News reported, at prices anyone can see.
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F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun bets $19.3 million on ether gaining against bitcoin
F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun swapped $19.31 million of wrapped bitcoin for ether as bitcoin slid to $80.5K on Oct. 9, on-chain trackers say. The swap extends a bet, tracked since June, that ether will outrun bitcoin, and the ETH/BTC ratio is still below its 2026 open.
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Bitcoin fell to about $81,000 on Thursday as Brent crude rose above $105 on reports that the US may strike Iran again. Whether it holds the $82,500 support traders are watching now depends largely on Treasury yields and oil prices.
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Bitcoin extended its selloff on Oct. 8, falling through the $82,180 support level to an intraday low near $80,800, CryptoSlate reported. The next cluster of liquidations that Glassnode models below that low sits near $75,000, about 7% further down.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a net $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their largest one-day outflow since June, Farside Investors data show. At about $82,700, Bitcoin now trades inside the band where Glassnode maps its nearest liquidation cluster, so the next move depends on how leverage is stacked there.
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Ether's three prediction-market prices diverge mostly because each asks a different question
Ether fell below $2,600 on Oct. 7 after six straight days of outflows from U.S. spot ether ETFs. Read by their rules, its three prediction markets point to a year-end close to Wednesday's opening price, with wide odds on either side.
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Bitcoin fell about $3,540 on Oct. 7 after reports of tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, $2,000 of it in 30 minutes, as ETH slid below $2,600. Liquidated leveraged longs set the pace, so whether prices hold once that forced selling clears will show how much of the move was about oil.
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Bitcoin open interest rose from $54.2 billion to $55.3 billion in six hours after a dip to $83,560 liquidated about $550 million of crypto longs. Traders re-levered at the lows, leaving bitcoin inside a 3.4% band between its $83,850 21-day average and the $86,700 close Rekt Capital wants to see.
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Bitcoin slipped from about $79,500 to $77,000 on August 22 and roughly $547 million of crypto positions were force-closed. At 50x, a 2 percent move is the entire margin.
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Rising oil, Treasury yields and the dollar pushed bitcoin below $84,000 on Oct. 7 and forced out $403 million of leveraged crypto longs in one hour. The flush cleared only 0.27% of open interest, so most of that leverage is still in place as traders wait on the Fed's minutes.
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Bitcoin needs a rally of about 5% to reach Glassnode's $90,000 short-liquidation pile
Glassnode put Bitcoin's largest cluster of leveraged short liquidations near $90,000 on Oct. 4, about 5% above a trading range of $85,000 to $86,000. Before forced short covering joins in, ordinary buyers have to carry the price across a $4,000 to $5,000 gap.
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