• Bitcoin liquidates $500M longs hour
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    Bitcoin’s hiccup liquidates $500M of longs in one hour

    Bitcoin 12% price plunge caused futures traders to lose nearly $500 million within an hour—and more than $2.8 billion over two days

    One explanation is that many new and inexperienced traders have joined the market. On-chain analytics firm Glassnode’s founders Jan Happel and Jann Allemann had another: “There is excess greed in the system, with 60% of contracts levered 20x or more."