Over Half A Billion Dollars Wiped Out As Bitcoin Locks In At $70,000
Whale wallets quietly shifted to buying mode over the past two weeks — even as the broader crypto market absorbed one of its worst single-day liquidation events in recent memory. Related Reading: Bitcoin Stalls Near $75K As Traders Move Coins To Exchanges A Massive Options Expiry Freezes The Price Friday’s settlement of Deribit’s March options contracts has effectively put Bitcoin on hold. The expiry involves 24,838 contracts with a combined notional value of $1.72 billion, and BTC has landed squarely at the $70,000 strike — the exact level known as “max pain,”....
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New all-time highs in short liquidations — at least when measured in dollars — point to overly bearish market sentiment. Ether (ETH) is setting liquidation records this week as a comparatively modest price uptick reveals how bearish the market has become.Data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant confirmed that United States dollar-denominated short liquidations hit a new all-time high on Oct. 25. Two days, half a billion dollars of ETH shortsIt is not just Bitcoin (BTC) causing the bears severe pain this week — data from exchanges also shows that Ethereum shorters have suffered....
The crypto market has seen more than $50 billion wiped off its total market cap in the space of 24 hours. It comes hot on the heels of the market decline triggered by Binance’s massive planned FTT dump. Bitcoin, as well as other digital assets in the space, have all seen significant declines during this […]
Coinapult, one of the biggest companies in the Bitcoin industry. When we last talked to them it was regarding the public beta launch of Locks, the ability to “lock” in your value of Bitcoin and tie it to the value of a commodity. Today, we will be talking about the funding they just received. Our Locks launch went very well. We have been developing upgrades to the website based on the initial feedback, and have already rolled out a number of improvements in our invoicing, Locks, and account interfaces. Sure, we raised a total of $775K in two seed rounds. Both rounds involved FirstMark....
Bankruptcy Protection. So, Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo on Friday. The detailsemerging today of the magnitude of the losses are frankly, staggering. Karpeles may have overseen the loss of up to half a billion dollars worth of Bitcoins. The first lawsuit has already been lodged by Gregory Greene in the US District Court in Chicago. Mr. Greene had approximately $25,000 worth of Bitcoin. Greene's money is gone; everyone's money is gone. Mt. Gox has lost roughly 750,000 of client's Bitcoins as well as 100,000 of its own, almost 7% of total circulation. Karpeles apologized....
Price swings are a major hindrance on the average bitcoin user. It's easy to fall asleep at night thinking the price will remain steady, only to wake up and realize that your bitcoins dropped $20 in value overnight. It's one of the major reasons people decide to stay away from day trading bitcoins. The market it unpredictable on a level many traders have never seen before due to the unregulated ecosystem. Also read: Mycelium Local Trader App Is Out Of Beta: The Most Decentralized Exchange You Can Use Today. Panama-based company Coinapult created a service called Locks to combat constant....