Sunday Shockwave: Bitcoin’s $80K Surge Triggers Massive $430M Crypto Liquidation
As bitcoin and ether climb steadily, driving the crypto economy upward, a wave of liquidations has swept through the crypto derivatives markets. In the past 24 hours alone, more than $300 million in short positions were...
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