William Suberg
Jan 02, 2021
Bitcoin price quickly climbs to $31K, liquidating $100M of shortsBitcoin plays shorters for fools as a surge to $30,950 liquidates a huge number of risky positions.
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Bitcoin (BTC) passing $30,000 and hitting highs of near $31,000 has caused huge pain for traders betting on a bearish pullback.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets, Cryptometer and TradingView confirmed that as BTC/USD peaked at $30,960 on Jan. 2, it liquidated $100 million of shorts.
BTC shorters feel the burn... againAmid highly volatile conditions, Bitcoin attempted to crack $30,000 several times on New Year's Day and overnight before finally clinching the psychologically significant level on Saturday.
The move was accompanied by a bullish charge which soon took the largest cryptocurrency even higher, with press-time levels attempting to crack $31,000.
While many celebrated, however, some were left far worse off than just minutes previously.
Liquidated short on XBTUSD: Buy 10,000,000 @ 30864 ~ I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
— REKT (@BXRekt) January 2, 2021"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" a telling tweet from a bot tracking liquidated trades on derivatives giant BitMEX summarized.
Figures suggest that shorters on BitMEX alone lost $10 million, a grim reminder of the dangers involved in second guessing Bitcoin at crucial levels.
Dogecoin leads sudden altcoin gainsElsewhere, altcoin markets began to see changes of their own. Dogecoin (DOGE), a curious amover, gained 42% on the day, while leader Ether (ETH) surged back above $750.
Cointelegraph Markets analyst Michaël van de Poppe, who believes that this month will herald the start of a broader"alt season," was characteristically bullish.
"The higher this impulse wave goes for #Bitcoin , the higher the next one will be as well. 2021 is going to be fire," he tweeted as $30,000 hit.
Others in the top ten cryptocurrencies showed less volatile behavior, while nothing could lift XRP, still floundering amid legal problems at major investor Ripple Labs.
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