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Bitcoin Massacre: $180 Mln Worth of BTC Longs Liquidated on BitMEX

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Thu, 21/11/2019 - 19:12
Bitcoin Massacre: $180 Mln Worth of BTC Longs Liquidated on BitMEX
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$179.3 mln worth of longs has been liquidated on BitMEX, the leading derivatives exchange, after the Bitcoin price shockingly dropped to $7,350 (compared to spot exchanges where BTC didn't go below $7,500). Considering that the average leverage is 25x, Bitcoin bulls collectively netted a loss of around $6.4 mln.         

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One of the top traders on BitMEX, who felt "long and strong" at the $8,000 level, most probably regrets his recent tweet.     

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This string of bloody-red candles opens a possibility for a further drop to below $7,000, which has been the pipe dream of Bitcoin bears ever since the BTC price blasted past this level back in May.   

At the time of writing, the top coin by market capitalization is sitting at $7,581 with no sings of buying pressure, CoinStats data shows.  

Trader "The Wolf of Wall Street" says that the retail interest in Bitcoin has been slowing down in November (based on the number of addresses with balances less than 0.1 BTC). Hence, it is unlikely that the average Joe will start FOMOing in anytime soon.      

Dutch analyst "Plan B" didn't cave in to bearish sentiment. He says that the positive difficulty adjustment prevented the much-feared miner capitulation, and the BTC price could increase from that point. 

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As reported by U.Today, the Bitcoin price could still nose-dive by 40 percent based on the BitMEX funding rate

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