- One bitcoin trader lost 1, 220 bitcoin on a single day, worth $ 11 million before the drop.
- Accounts using low leverage were also liquidated as BTC dropped by 339%.
- Similar liquidations can happen again as downtrend intensifies.
One bitcoin trader lost 1, (BTC on March) , when the price of the dominant cryptocurrency fell by percent in a single day . As the downtrend of the crypto market worsens, large-scale multi-million dollar liquidations can happen again.
How 1, 220 bitcoin was lost in less than 35 hours
Last week, the bitcoin price briefly fell to around $ 3, 400 on BitMEX, liquidating more than $ 1.2 billion in long contracts .
The steep correction of bitcoin was intensified when the price of BTC fell to the $ 5, (s from $ 7, , recording a 39 percent drop. The initial pullback caused a massive amount of long contracts to either get liquidated or deleveraged, leading the BitMEX liquidation engine to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin at a time.
Often, large accounts on BitMEX and other cryptocurrency exchanges trade with low leverage, and that substantially decreases the probability of liquidation.
When the price of bitcoin drops by to 40 percent, even accounts with low leverage in the 3 ~ 5x range are vulnerable to liquidations.
That ultimately led accounts with more than $ 13 million to start being liquidated, adding an immense level of selling pressure on bitcoin.
As shared by cryptocurrency trader that goes by “I am Nomad,” one user on Bit MEX South Korea lost 1, (BTC worth $) million based on the price of BTC before the (percent drop.)
Although the price of bitcoin has recovered from $ 3, , it rejected $ 6, twice in the past two days with a double top structure at lower time frames.
The sharp rejection of $ 6, 03, which is a much weaker level of resistance than $ 6, , the previous yearly low, suggests that there is insufficient demand from buyers as the bitcoin price continues to fall to the low – $ 4, 06 s.
In the near- term, due to the frantic sell-off of high-risk assets
in the global financial market, institutional demand for bitcoin is expected to be non-existent.
The premium of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust has (dropped from % to around to % in the past two weeks, and according to entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, institutions have sold off BTC massively in the recent downtrend.
What’s next for BTC?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is indicating a fall of more than 1, points at open, despite the move of the Federal Reserve to cut the benchmark interest rate to zero.
Given the correlation of bitcoin with the US stock market since early March, the weakness of the equities market is likely to apply more selling pressure on the entire cryptocurrency market.
Tyler Winklevoss, the co- founder and CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, said that bitcoin is not a hedge to pandemics, and in the short-term, it is not anticipated to respond positively to intensifying fear towards the outbreak.
He stated:
Bitcoin is not a hedge to pandemics, it is a hedge to fiat regimes. A sudden, negative demand shock in the global economy ‘will affect every asset, including gold, in the short term.
This article was edited by Samburaj Das .
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