{"id":629809,"date":"2026-07-15T17:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=831374"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:52:27","slug":"bitcoin-tops-65500-as-209-million-in-crypto-shorts-collapse-across-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/bitcoin-tops-65500-as-209-million-in-crypto-shorts-collapse-across-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Tops $65,500 as $209 Million in Crypto Shorts Collapse Across Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bitcoin-tops-65500-as-209-million-in-crypto-shorts-collapse-across-markets-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin chart on July 15, 2026.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Fueled by positive economic data, bitcoin added to its July 14 gains on Wednesday to breach $65,000, hitting an intraday peak of $65,518 and driving its market cap past $1.3 trillion. Leveraged Shorts Wiped Out in Derivatives Flurry Building on a recovery that wiped out Monday\u2019s losses, bitcoin comfortably surpassed the $65,000 threshold on Wednesday. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fueled by positive economic data, bitcoin added to its July 14 gains on Wednesday to breach $65,000, hitting an intraday peak of $65,518 and driving its market cap past $1.3 trillion. Leveraged Shorts Wiped Out in Derivatives Flurry Building on a recovery that wiped out Monday\u2019s losses, bitcoin comfortably surpassed the $65,000 threshold on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629809","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=629809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}