Bitcoin drops to $73,477, lowest since August, $1B liquidated

Key points

  • Bitcoin fell overnight to $73,477, its lowest level since August
  • More than $1B in leveraged positions liquidated in 24 hours, mostly longs
  • BTC closed below its 50-week moving average and bounced to $75,442
Alex Numeris
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Metric

Value

BTC low

$73,477

BTC price now

$75,442

24h change

-0.70%

7d change

-3.93%

24h liquidations

over $1B

Distance from ATH

-40.2%

Bitcoin slid overnight into Monday to $73,477, its lowest level since August, and closed below its 50-week moving average. The drop triggered more than $1B in liquidations across the crypto market, most of it long positions.

What happened

Buyers stepped in after the low and pushed the price back to about $74,700 into the New York open. By Monday afternoon, at 16:00 UTC, BTC was trading at $75,442, according to CoinGecko data.

The bounce from the low is 2.7%, but BTC is still down 0.70% over 24 hours and 3.93% over 7 days.

The liquidations

More than $1B in leveraged positions were liquidated over 24 hours, the bulk of it longs. The breakdown by exchange and by long/short is tracked in Coinglass liquidation data.

Why it fell

Three factors weighed on price at the same time:

  • A probe linked to Nvidia, which hit risk appetite
  • Fears of tougher crypto regulation in the US
  • Outflows from US spot Bitcoin ETFs

Where BTC stands now

Metric

Value

Price

$75,442

24h change

-0.70%

7d change

-3.93%

Market cap

$1.517T

24h trading volume

$33.37B

All-time high

$126,080

Distance from ATH

-40.2%

At $75,442, Bitcoin sits 40.2% below its all-time high of $126,080. Trading volume over the past 24 hours reached $33.37B.

Ethereum fell harder

ETH trades at $2,145.08, down 4.16% over 24 hours and 6.91% over 7 days. It is 56.6% below its all-time high of $4,946.05.

Coin

Price

24h

7d

From ATH

BTC

$75,442

-0.70%

-3.93%

-40.2%

ETH

$2,145.08

-4.16%

-6.91%

-56.6%

ETH trading volume over the past 24 hours was $16.53B, on a market cap of $262.17B.

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