{"id":585196,"date":"2026-04-17T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/crypto-market-liquidations-hit-820m-as-bitcoin-price-taps-78k\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:28:04","slug":"crypto-market-liquidations-hit-820m-as-bitcoin-price-taps-78k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/crypto-market-liquidations-hit-820m-as-bitcoin-price-taps-78k\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto market liquidations hit $820M as Bitcoin price taps $78K"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto<\/p>\n

Nearly a billion dollars in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours as the Bitcoin price rallied above $78,000.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) rallied above $78,000 to hit another 10-week high<\/a> on Friday as crypto and equity markets reacted to cooling tensions in the US and Israel war in Iran<\/a>. The rally above range highs also resulted in a large liquidation of leveraged Bitcoin positions.<\/p>\n

More than $660 million in short positions were liquidated, with Bitcoin accounting for $353 million of that total. Ether (ETH<\/a>) followed with $160 million in short liquidations.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong><\/em>Three things Bitcoin must do to hold highs above $76K: Analysts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Nearly a billion dollars in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours as the Bitcoin price rallied above $78,000. Bitcoin (BTC) rallied above $78,000 to hit another 10-week high on Friday as crypto and equity markets reacted to cooling tensions in the US and Israel war in Iran. The rally above range […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}