$100 Million in Liquidations as Bitcoin Price Explodes to $29K

Following the most recent decline, Bitcoin bulls have finally resurfaced, pushing the price all the way up to the $29K mark.

This has brought positivity to the entire market, but has also caused a stir in terms of liquidated leveraged positions.

• The past 24 hours saw around $100 million worth of leveraged positions being liquidated, according to data from Coinglass.
• Naturally, the overwhelming majority of this (82%) came from short positions.
• This happened as the BTC price exploded toward $29K, followed by the majority of the market.

• Most of the liquidations came from BTC positions ($41M), followed by ETH ($21.5M).