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Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">BTC</a>) is rapidly recovering from its $10,000 BTC price drop as wild volatility keeps up pressure on traders.
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 BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView
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<h2 id="derivatives-show-btc-price-bets-are-already-back">Derivatives show BTC price bets are already back&nbsp;</h2>
Data from <a href="https://subscription.cointelegraph.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cointelegraph Markets Pro</a> and <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCGBP/?exchange=BINANCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TradingView</a> shows BTC/USD clawing back more than half its March 5 losses.
That day saw Bitcoin finally reclaim its <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/btc-price-corrects-bitcoin-pre-halving-all-time-high" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">all-time highs from November 2021</a>, but whales were lying in wait for late longs on over-leveraged markets.
“There aren’t less people wanting to own bitcoin after this flush,” popular Bitcoin personality Hodlonaut wrote in part of <a href="https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1765166598258622668" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">commentary</a> on X.
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 “This was a case of big whales moving the market like a wave, sending thousands of over-leveraged or under-informed small fish into their mouths.”
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 Crypto liquidations (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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<a href="https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">According</a> to data from monitoring resource CoinGlass, the drop, which bottomed near $59,300 on Bitstamp, claimed $1.17 billion in cross-crypto liquidations. The majority of these were longs.
Examining market structure, however, a cathartic effect is visible, with funding rates across exchanges seeing a modest reset from levels that observers argued were unsustainable.
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 BTC funding rates&nbsp;(screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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Open interest tells a similar story, but the latest estimates show this building in line with the BTC price comeback after an initial $3 billion flush.
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 Exchange Bitcoin futures open interest&nbsp;(screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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<h2 id="bitcoin-order-book-shows-whale-move-ongoing">Bitcoin order book shows whale move ongoing</h2>
On the topic of trader behavior, meanwhile, trading resource Material Indicators is showing whales potentially shifting expectations of what is to come.
Related:&nbsp;<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-analysts-say-btc-price-correction-is-just-healthy-consolidation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin analysts say BTC price correction is just ‘healthy consolidation’</a>
A block of bid liquidity on largest global exchange Binance has headed higher, providing what potentially cushioned the correction from $69,000.
“On Feb 28th whales moved $54M in BTC USDT bid liquidity on @binance from the $36k - $38k range and turned it into a buy wall at $52k. FireCharts shows that today they moved more than half ($27M) of that buy wall and converted it into a bid ladder that climbs from $60k - $65k,” Material Indicators <a href="https://twitter.com/MI_Algos/status/1765078444042551806/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">wrote</a> in part of accompanying comments, adding:
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 “Too early to tell if this will be the extent of the pullback (for now), but it’s clear that a large entity either has concern that price won’t dip to $52k, or doesn’t want to allow price to go that low.”
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 BTC/USDT order book liquidity for Binance. Source: Material Indicators/X
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Elsewhere, a popular comparison to BTC price behavior in late 2020 — when previous all-time highs were broken — continues to circulate.
Then, BTC/USD also saw a snap retracement, spending around two weeks below the new highs before finally breaking out.
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 Bitcoin chart from 2020 vs. 2024. Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/smilinglllama/status/1765111504192282915" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Smilinglllama on X</a>
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