{"id":64920,"date":"2025-12-23T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64920"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:46:48","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-down-2-despite-retail-rotation-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64920","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum Down 2% Despite Retail Rotation: What&#8217;s Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) saw $1.4 billion in liquidations over the past week as retail capitulates on altcoins and rotates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49394474\/strategy-buys-980m-in-bitcoin-but-one-crucial-mstr-metric-turned-red\">back into majors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Bitcoin slipped below $85,000 mid-week before grinding back to $90,000 by the end of last week, though it has failed to follow through this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum dropped below $3,000 as liquidations hit $600 million Monday, then another $400 million on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively<\/p>\n<p>The damage was severe but short-lived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overleveraged positions got wiped out quickly, forcing traders to retreat into Bitcoin and Ethereum\u2014the only assets with enough liquidity to absorb the shock.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Retail Rotates Out Of Altcoins As TradFi Keeps Building &#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49563592\/bitcoin-ethereum-down-2-despite-retail-rotation-whats-going-on?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum down despite retail rotation: what going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) saw $1.4 billion in liquidations over the past week as retail capitulates on altcoins and rotates back into majors. What Happened: Bitcoin slipped below $85,000 mid-week before grinding back to $90,000 by the end of last week, though it has failed to follow through this week. Ethereum dropped [&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-64920","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\/64920","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=64920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}