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The bears are back in the crypto town, which is evident by yet another substantial price correction from essentially every digital asset.
Bitcoin led the adverse charge, with a nosedive toward $105,000 as of press time, which is a multi-month low on multiple exchanges. The altcoins follow suit in an even more painful manner.
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Recall that bitcoin had recovered a lot of ground following last week’s calamity and even challenged $116,000 earlier this week. However, it faced an immediate and strong rejection at that point, which <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/aster-plunges-by-double-digits-bitcoin-slides-toward-110k-market-watch/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pushed</a> it south to the crucial resistance at $110,000.
Although that line held at first, the bears were a lot more persistent and <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-109k-as-trump-putin-meeting-triggers-600m-in-liquidations/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">drove the asset below</a> it yesterday evening. That was just the start of yet another deeper correction, however. In the past several hours, BTC has registered another leg down and is close to breaking below $105,000, which is the first line of defense, <a href="https://x.com/CW8900/status/1979091502086115742" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">according</a> to some analysts. The next such buying wall is formed at around $100,000.
Other market observers have turned completely bearish on the asset. Captain Faibik <a href="https://x.com/CryptoFaibik/status/1979089300982526005" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">claimed</a> that the 2024/2025 bull run is over, and they expect a 50% correction in the midterm.
Naturally, the altcoins are getting obliterated in such occasions. Binance Coin, for example, which set a new all-time high just days ago, has plunged by over 12% in the past 24 hours to under $1,050 as of press time. ETH is down by more than 6%, XRP’s losses exceed 7%, and the landscape with the lower caps is even more painful.
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 “Altcoins are under pressure as liquidity continues to rotate back into Bitcoin and stablecoins amid risk-off sentiment. This latest dip reflects declining speculative appetite after last week’s macro data, thin order books amplifying volatility, and renewed uncertainty around regulatory headlines impacting smaller-cap tokens,” said Wenny C, COO at SynFutures, in a statement to CryptoPotato.
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The crash in the past 24 hours has impacted over-leveraged traders once again, with almost 290,000 such market participants getting wrecked. The total value of liquidations is on the rise again, hitting $1.1 billion, according to CoinGlass.
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Crypto Market Bloodbath: Over $1B in Liquidations as Bitcoin, Altcoins Collapse

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