Leading cryptocurrencies fell Thursday after a festive surge on Christmas gave way to profit-taking.
Cryptocurrency | Gains +/- | Price (Recorded at 7:30 p.m. ET) |
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) | -3.69% | $95,658.87 |
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) |
-4.37% | $3,338.32 |
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) | -6.97% | $0.3116 |
What Happened: After teasing the $100,000 mark on Christmas, Bitcoin witnessed a steep decline, falling to an intraday low of $95,170.
Ethereum dropped to the $3,300 region following the to-and-from movement between $3,440 and $3,510.
Trading volumes for both currencies rose, indicating that traders returned from their Christmas break to book profits.
Over $270 million was liquidated from the market in the last 24 hours, with long liquidations accounting for $200 million.
Bitcoin’s Open Interest increased by 0.97% in the last 24 hours. The majority of them were short positions, as evidenced by a drop in the Long/Short Ratio.
That said, nearly $760 million in short positions risked liquidation if Bitcoin rebounds to $100,000.
The market sentiment was “Greed,” according to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index.
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