Forced liquidation of positions of users of crypto-exchanges occurred against the background of a decline in the bitcoin rate to $ 55.6 thousand, Ethereum below $ 2 thousand and XRP token below $ 1
Over the past day, traders have lost more than $ 1 billion on transactions with Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, the largest liquidation occurred in tandem with Bitcoin and amounted to $ 10 million, according to bybt.
The largest number of liquidations for $ 613 million fell on pairs with the first cryptocurrency. In the afternoon of April 7, the price of bitcoin fell to $ 55.6 thousand. Today, on April 7, as of 16:25 Moscow time, bitcoin is traded at $ 56.5 thousand, having fallen in price by 3% per day.
In second place in terms of the volume of closed positions is the XRP token. Over the past 24 hours, in a pair with him, deals for $ 310 million were forcibly closed. On Wednesday night, his price renewed a three-year high above $ 1.11, after which it began to decline. Now the coin is trading at $ 0.93, having dropped in price by 5% per day.
The third place belongs to the traders who traded Ethereum, they lost $ 283 million. Yesterday, the altcoin updated its historical maximum value above $ 2.1 thousand, after which it began to fall in price. Now air costs $ 1.9 thousand, over the past 24 hours the decline has exceeded 5%.