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Bitcoin spikes past $9,000 before falling back into consolidation range
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Updated: Apr. 6, 2020 at 1:19 am UTC
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Bitcoin surged past $9,000 before plummeting to retest the lower bound of its trading range at $8,600.
At 15:40 UTC Bitcoin spiked 3.9 percent taking the cryptocurrency from $8,743.62 to $9,090.00 on Coinbase. The price held above $9,000 for 10 minutes before rapidly dropping to retest the lower bound of its 48-hour trading range.
- Coinbase BTC/USD (Source: TradingView)
Crypto Twitter was euphoric as BTC breached $9,000 resistance level. A cacophony of the (in)famous “It’s over 9000” Dragon Ball Z Vegeta meme graced Twitter before prices dropped.
It's over 9000!!!! pic.twitter.com/cvJX8Blsgw
— Mati Greenspan (@MatiGreenspan) May 30, 2019
The coin currently appears to be consolidating around $8,600. Recent real trading volume was driven by Coinbase with 24-hour volume of $170 million. OpenMarketCap showed that Binance lead with real 24-hour volume of $414 million.
Source: DataMish
The sudden gyration in price liquidated a large number of both longs and shorts on crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX. Within the last six hours $19.7 million shorts and $29.2 million in longs were liquidated on the platform.
The insanity of the Bitcoin bull market continues.
Bitcoin Market Data
At the time of press 1:19 am UTC on Apr. 6, 2020, Bitcoin is ranked #1 by market cap and the price is down 4.94% over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $146.96 billion with a 24-hour trading volume of $28.77 billion. Learn more about Bitcoin ›
Crypto Market Summary
At the time of press 1:19 am UTC on Apr. 6, 2020, the total crypto market is valued at at $260.78 billion with a 24-hour volume of $100.71 billion. Bitcoin dominance is currently at 56.29%. Learn more about the crypto market ›
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