Traders lost more than $ 800 million due to the fall of bitcoin to $ 44.4 thousand.
Over the past day, positions of 169 thousand were liquidated. crypto traders worth $ 818 million, according to the bybt service. The largest loss per trade occurred on the Bitfinex crypto exchange paired with Ethereum and amounted to $ 15.3 million.
Hardest hit traders who traded the first cryptocurrency ($ 303.7 million loss). Ethereum traders took second place in this indicator, who lost $ 200.8 million. The third place with $ 52.5 million was taken by traders who traded Ripple’s token (XRP).
Official repair site Asic for mining cryptocurrencies in Russia.
Mass liquidation of positions occurred after the price of bitcoin dropped to $ 44.4 thousand on the morning of September 20. Over the past day, the main cryptocurrency fell by 7%, and its capitalization fell to $ 848 billion, according to CoinGecko. At 12:55 Moscow time, bitcoin is trading at $ 44.8 thousand.
Against the background of the decline in the first cryptocurrency, altcoins also fell in price. For example, the price of Ethereum dropped by 9% per day, to $ 3.1 thousand., and XRP fell 11% to $ 0.96. The total capitalization of the digital asset market has decreased by 8% over the past 24 hours and is currently $ 2 trillion.