A flash crash transpired on Huobi as BTC went all the way down to $28,800 before recovering just as sharply. At the same time, the liquidations are well above $2.5 trillion on a daily scale as the entire market is deep in the red.
As reported earlier, bitcoin, and the entire cryptocurrency market, went through one of its worst crashes in recent history. BTC plummeted by $16,000 in a day from around $58,000 to an intraday low of $42,000 on Bitstamp and most exchanges.
However, other trading venues saw even more dramatic price drops. Such was the case with the BTC/USDC trading pair on Huobi, where bitcoin dropped all the way down to $28,801, as the picture below shows.
BTC/USDC on Huobi. Source: TradingView
Such events are known as flash crashes, in which the price of the underlying asset drops significantly lower on one (or more) exchanges compared to most and recovers immediately.
As it happened in previous times that CryptoPotatoreported, the price of BTC recovered just as quickly as it fell.
Separately, the aforementioned market dump, which caused massive double-digit price nosedives for almost all coins, resulted in severe pain for leveraged traders.
According to data from CoinGlass (formerly known as Bybt), the total liquidations are above $2.5 billion on a daily scale. In the past 4 hours alone, the liquidations are over $1.5 billion.
The number of traders liquidated is just shy of 400,000, and the largest single liquidation order was worth $28 million and transpired on Bitfinex.
OhNoRipple via https://www.ohnocrypto.com/ @Jordan Lyanchev, @Khareem Sudlow
Bitcoin Price Flash Crashed to $28.8K on Huobi: Over $2.5B Total Liquidations in 24 Hours
Reviewed by Khareem Sudlow
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December 04, 2021
Rating: 5
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