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Correction: 5 Reasons Bitcoin (BTC) Crashed

Published 09/25/2019, 06:40 AM
Updated 09/25/2019, 08:01 AM
© Reuters.   Correction: 5 Reasons Bitcoin (BTC) Crashed
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Bitcoin (BTC) touched the $8,000 level briefly, pushed down by a series of factors. While quarterly sell-offs are not out of the norm, this time, BTC was pushed down by a combination of negative events.

BitMex Liquidation: The BitMex liquidation late on Tuesday was one of the biggest in years. Price action triggered a series of liquidations on BitMex, for a total of $600 million in liquidated long positions. BitMex has not seen such a significant liquidation event since a glitch on Bitstamp caused price anomalies.

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OKEx also lost most of its insurance fund in the latest futures liquidation event. The BitMex liquidation was probably the biggest liquidat...

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