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<p>The price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell to about $27,300 as almost $200 million was liquidated from the cryptocurrency market on April 21.</p>
<h2 id="nearly-200-million-liquidated">Nearly $200 million liquidated</h2>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData">Coinglass</a>, the crypto market saw $191.98 million liquidated over 24 hours.</p>
<p>Bitcoin saw $63.03 million liquidated, while Ethereum saw $54.20 million liquidated. Other assets such as Dogecoin, Arbitrum, Chainlink, XRP, Litecoin, and Solana experienced less than $5.5 million in liquidations.</p>
<p>Market liquidations primarily came from activity on Binance, OKX, Huobi, and Bybit.</p>
<p>A total of 57,269 traders were liquidated, according to site data.</p>
<h2 id="bitcoin-8217-s-value-closes-in-on-27-3k">Bitcoin&#8217;s value closes in on $27.3k</h2>
<p>The price of Bitcoin is also down, based on <a href="https://cryptoslate.com/coins/">CryptoSlate data</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_319672" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-319672" style="width: 1530px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-319672" src="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTCUSDT_2023-04-22_02-06-07.png" alt="BTC price" width="1530" height="933" srcset="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTCUSDT_2023-04-22_02-06-07.png 1530w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTCUSDT_2023-04-22_02-06-07-300x183.png 300w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTCUSDT_2023-04-22_02-06-07-1024x624.png 1024w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BTCUSDT_2023-04-22_02-06-07-768x468.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-319672" class="wp-caption-text">BTCUSDT (source: Tradingview)</figcaption></figure>
<p>BTC was priced at $27,269 as of 9 p.m. UTC but was valued above $28,200 earlier in the day. In all, the price of Bitcoin is down 3.4% over 24 hours.</p>
<p>Other leading assets have also lost value. Ethereum (ETH) is down 4.9% and XRP is down 5.6%, while Dogecoin (DOGE) is down 6.8%.</p>
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Bitcoin drops to $27.3k; liquidations reach almost $200M

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