{"id":27381,"date":"2025-05-18T18:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27381"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:31:46","slug":"liquidations-on-the-rise-as-bitcoin-btc-pumps-and-dumps-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27381","title":{"rendered":"Liquidations on the Rise as Bitcoin (BTC) Pumps and Dumps on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Following a relatively boring Friday and Saturday, bitcoin\u2019s price went on the offensive on Sunday evening and shot up to its highest level since the end of January at $106,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bears were quick to step up at this point, and the asset plunged by two grand in an instant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_396953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396953\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396953\" src=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19.png\" alt=\"BTCUSD. Source: TradingView\" width=\"1835\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19.png 1835w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19-1024x457.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19-1536x686.png 1536w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BTCUSD-19-50x22.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1835px) 100vw, 1835px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-396953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/meme-coins-on-the-rebound-as-bitcoin-btc-consolidation-continues-weekend-watch\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Recall<\/a> our Market Watch from this morning, which informed that BTC had returned to familiar ground at around $104,000 after a brief dip below $103,000, which allowed an anonymous whale to open a <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/big-bitcoin-bet-as-btc-whale-doubles-down-with-393-million-long-position\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">massive long position<\/a> worth nearly $400 million on Hyperliquid.<\/p>\n<p>Live data from CoinGlass indicates that the large market participant has closed a portion of his position, which is now worth a more modest $337 million.<\/p>\n<p>This transpired in the past few hours, during which BTC\u2019s price quickly pumped from $104,000 to a multi-month peak at $106,000, where it faced a violent rejection and was pushed south to its starting point within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of wrecked positions has risen to almost $280 million on a daily scale, with the majority of that taking place in the past 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>BTC short positions actually have the second-biggest share of the pie, as ETH longs dominate with over $80 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_396954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396954\" style=\"width: 1359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396954\" src=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447.png\" alt=\"Liquidation Heat Map. Source: CoinGlass\" width=\"1359\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447.png 1359w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447-1024x362.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447-768x271.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-212447-50x18.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-396954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquidation Heat Map. Source: CoinGlass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 90,00 traders have been wrecked in the past day, while the single-largest liquidated position took place on HTX, involved the ETH\/USDT pair, and was worth $8.21 million, says CoinGlass.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/liquidations-on-the-rise-as-bitcoin-btc-pumps-and-dumps-on-sunday\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Liquidations on the Rise as Bitcoin (BTC) Pumps and Dumps on Sunday<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a relatively boring Friday and Saturday, bitcoin\u2019s price went on the offensive on Sunday evening and shot up to its highest level since the end of January at $106,000. However, the bears were quick to step up at this point, and the asset plunged by two grand in an instant. BTCUSD. Source: TradingView Recall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-27381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}