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What Happens if Bitcoin Falls Below $65,000?
Cryptocurrencies tumbled over the weekend as Bitcoin slumped to a three-month low of just above $63,000, with exchanges tracked by Coinglass recording approximately $1.9 billion in crypto liquidations over 24 hours through Sunday morning.
Crypto assets have faced pressure in recent weeks from expectations of higher US interest rates and an AI-fueled risk-off mood, while US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs saw almost $3 billion in net outflows from October 30 through November 13.
Bitcoin's slide triggered the liquidation of roughly $1.3 billion in long crypto bets on Friday alone, with Ether also suffering a steep 18% decline as sharp swings flushed leveraged traders from their positions.
Analyst James Check described the current market as a "capitulation event," noting investors who missed earlier opportunities are now booking losses, while Richard Galvin, executive chairman at DACM, suggested the impending Anthropic IPO may be diverting capital away from crypto.
GSR co-founder Rich Rosenblum noted Bitcoin broke through its 200-day moving average of about $73,000, triggering new short positions, and suggested the asset may be nearing a technical floor where it has historically found support.
The course of bitcoin fell by more than 6 per cent, and Etherum sat by more than 8 per cent, as shown by the Binance cryptobearage data. 6.7 per cent of the course of the Bitcoin was reduced to $63.77,000, and the course of the same site was lowered by 9.08 per cent, to $1.753,000, from TASS. The world's cryptobears eliminated more than 316,000 trade positions per day, for a total value of about $2 billion, from the Coinglass site. According to …