{"id":70205,"date":"2026-01-31T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70205"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:17:01","slug":"btc-crashes-3k-in-minutes-as-whale-reportedly-wrecked-for-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70205","title":{"rendered":"BTC Crashes $3K in Minutes as Whale Reportedly Wrecked for $1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Saturday massacre has only intensified in the past few hours, as bitcoin just plunged to $76,000 for the first time since the initial tariff threat in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-btc-price-tanks-toward-80k-as-liquidations-approach-1b\/\">extended<\/a> its massive losses to almost $15,000 in just days, as it traded above $90,000 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The latest flash crash took place as a single entity was liquidated for $1 billion, according to data from the Kobeissi Letter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Bitcoin falls -$3,000 in 5 minutes as a massive levered long position worth $1 billion was liquidated at 1:43 PM ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T3RwBdr17Q\">pic.twitter.com\/T3RwBdr17Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KobeissiLetter\/status\/2017672447345234248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>CoinGlass reports different data as of press time. It shows that the single-largest liquidated position took place on Hyperliquid and was worth a whopping $222 million. It involved the ETH-USD pair.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of wrecked positions has shot up to more than $2.5 billion on a daily basis. Nearly all of that came in the past 12 hours. Naturally, longs are responsible for the biggest share, with $2.41 billion of such positions wiped out in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price crash to $76,000 meant that Strategy\u2019s massive BTC position briefly turned red for the first time in over two years. Nevertheless, the cryptocurrency has rebounded slightly since that multi-month low, and now sits around $78,000, putting the company\u2019s stash slightly in the green again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: MicroStrategy\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a>, Bitcoin position officially turns red as Bitcoin falls below $76,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IRZjYzJS8H\">pic.twitter.com\/IRZjYzJS8H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KobeissiLetter\/status\/2017670787940192598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-crashes-3k-in-minutes-as-whale-reportedly-wrecked-for-1-billion\/\">BTC Crashes $3K in Minutes as Whale Reportedly Wrecked for $1 Billion<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday massacre has only intensified in the past few hours, as bitcoin just plunged to $76,000 for the first time since the initial tariff threat in April last year. As such, the cryptocurrency extended its massive losses to almost $15,000 in just days, as it traded above $90,000 on Wednesday. The latest flash crash [&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-70205","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\/70205","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=70205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}