Category: Cryptocurrency News

edit: I can tell by the downvotes, I’ve touched a nerve with those who love to be obedient little slaves to the US Dollar and the CCP. Wake up. Stop kneeling to tyranny. ———————————- Every time I discuss my enthusiasm about privacy coin tech like Monero, or Beam, or Firo – this is almost always…
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Data shows that on Monday crowded Bitcoin shorts have lead to the largest recorded squeeze in the history of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Records Largest Short Squeeze Ever As per an Arcane Research report, BTC has recorded the largest squeeze in its history where $750 million worth of shorts have been liquidated. Here is a chart that shows the data for Bitcoin short liquidations over the past one year: BTC short squeeze spikes | Source: Arcane Research As is clear from the above graph, the short squeeze seen on Monday, 26 July, hasn’t been observed in the past year. In fact, it’s the largest ever in the crypto’s history, surpassing the infamous 2017 short squeeze that lead to BTC reaching its then all-time-high. Related Reading | Bitcoin Indicator Forecast Calls For $46K, New All-Time Highs Possible Before yesterday, BTC had been floating in the low $30ks for quite some while with its price seemingly being on a gradual decline. As a result, high leveraged BTC short positions had been accumulating. Due to the Amazon rumor that the ecommerce giant would start accepting cryptocurrency payments, BTC had a sudden surge in price that took it from 34.5k to 39.5k. As this rise was totally unexpected, short sellers hurried to squeeze their shorts in order to cut their loses. And this short squeeze was so large that at least $750 million shorts were liquidated. An interesting thing is that Binance, the largest crypto exchange by market volume, made a change to their API after the crash in May. With this modification, the API only publishes data for one liquidation for second. This means that any data coming from Binance would be quite underestimated. Hence why “at least” $750 millon in shorts were liquidated. The real figure is almost definitely much higher than that. BTC Price At the time of writing Bitcoin’s price is trading around $37.7k , up 27% in the last 7 days. Over the past month, the crypto has gained 14% in value. Here is a chart that highlights the trends in the price of the coin over the last one year: BTC gains a sharp upwards trend | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView After being stuck in the $30k to $35k range for a while, Bitcoin has finally managed to break through the range bound market. The crypto momentarily touched the $40k mark, but it fell down quickly to these levels. Amazon came forth and confirmed that the rumor that was behind the surge in the price is false, and that has driven the price to down $37k. Related Reading | How The 55% Bitcoin Correction Revives Comparisons To Past Bull Cycle It’s unclear where the coin will head next, but some volatility at last is sure to at least keep the price moving, whether downwards or upwards.

For fun and curiosity, you can find here the list of the top of the richest addresses! I typed it out cause I know many people including myself do not like to click links. And I don’t know how to make those black and grey charts on Reddit. So if someone can enlighten my slow…
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“We’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to provide our crypto customers with the functionality that they’ve been asking for,” said Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev.

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According to a recent report, the first trust-less swap between the Bitcoin blockchain and Stacks protocol has been executed. The co-founder of the Stacks protocol, Muneeb Ali tweeted about the native bitcoin swap and said the progress is a big deal. Trust-less Native Bitcoin Swap Executed With an NFT Called ‘Boombox’ On July 23, a […]

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