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Bitcoin’s Price Explodes Above $51K, Adding $1500 in Hours

George Georgiev Feb 14, 2024 09:33
Bitcoin's price exploded above $51K in a sudden move, leaving millions of short positions liquidated.

Bitcoin’s price is showing little signs of weakness as yesterday’s dip was quickly bought up.

In less than two hours, the price exploded to above $51K, adding more than $1500. As seen in the chart below, BTC currently trades at $51,200, representing an increase of around 2.4% in the past hour.

Source: TradingView

Data from Coinglass reveals that this sudden move has caught short sellers unprepared. In the past hour, the total short liquidations exceeded $33 million, whereas the long liquidations were merely $400K.

In fact, for the past 4 hours, 97% of all leveraged positions that were liquidated were short. It appears that the buyers are currently in control of the market.

Other altcoins followed suit. In fact, ETH is up exactly as much as BTC during the mentioned period and managed to top $2.7K, at the time of this writing.

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George Georgiev

Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and seasoned writer with over four years of experience writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Georgi's passion for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies bloomed in late 2016 and he hasn't looked back since. Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping. Contact George: LinkedIn