{"id":52464,"date":"2025-10-13T04:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52464"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:16:31","slug":"bitcoins-flash-crash-over-weekend-prompts-analyst-to-sound-warning-on-btc-etfs-continuous-liquidity-essential-to-prudent-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52464","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s Flash Crash Over Weekend Prompts Analyst To Sound Warning on BTC ETFs: Continuous Liquidity Essential To &#8216;Prudent Risk Management&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin\u2019s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) flash crash late Friday, which happened outside of regular trading hours, has reignited debate about the operating hours of spot BTC exchange-traded funds, particularly the <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BTC\u2019s Deadly Weekend Crash<\/h2>\n<p>The apex cryptocurrency collapsed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48166996\/cryptocurrency-market-faces-renewed-pressure-as-bitcoin-ethereum-drop-to-multi-week-lows\">$116,000 to under $110,000<\/a> within minutes after President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> threatened 100% tariffs on China in response to \u201caggressive stance\u201d on export controls.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden spike caught traders off-guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48167167\/crypto-market-suffers-huge-liquidation-raoul-pal-encourages-investors-to-capitalize-on-the-dip\">triggering over $19 billion in liquidations<\/a>, the largest single-day wipeout in cryptocurrency history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction\">Bitcoin (BTC) Price Predictions: 2025, 2026, 2030<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ETF Investors Left In The Lurch?<\/h2>\n<p>The crash fueled concerns about the lack of 24\/7 trading of BTC exchange-traded funds, which have become a popular vehicle for institutional investors, Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2025\/10\/12\/trump-surprise-triggers-huge-crypto-flash-crash-as-traders-brace-for-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-bnb-and-solana-price-wipeout\/\">reported<\/a>, quoting <strong>Tommy &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48168733\/bitcoins-flash-crash-over-weekend-prompts-analyst-to-sound-warning-on-btc-etfs-continuous-l\" alt=\"Bitcoin's\" flash crash over weekend prompts analyst to sound warning on btc etfs: continuous liquidity essential risk management>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) flash crash late Friday, which happened outside of regular trading hours, has reignited debate about the operating hours of spot BTC exchange-traded funds, particularly the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT). BTC\u2019s Deadly Weekend Crash The apex cryptocurrency collapsed from $116,000 to under $110,000 within minutes after President Donald Trump threatened 100% tariffs [&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-52464","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\/52464","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=52464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}