{"id":68307,"date":"2026-02-16T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-traders-crowd-the-short-side-as-btc-defends-68k\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:31:16","slug":"bitcoin-traders-crowd-the-short-side-as-btc-defends-68k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bitcoin-traders-crowd-the-short-side-as-btc-defends-68k\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Traders Crowd the Short Side as BTC Defends $68K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>On Monday, bitcoin is coasting along at $68,494 per unit as short sellers pile in at levels not seen since August 2024, setting up a high-stakes standoff in the derivatives market. Bitcoin Funding Rates Plunge \u2014 Echoes of 2024 Rally Setup Bitcoin is trading just above $68,000 on Feb. 16, after fluctuating between roughly $60,000 [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/bitcoin-traders-crowd-the-short-side-as-btc-defends-68k\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) On Monday, bitcoin is coasting along at $68,494 per unit as short sellers pile in at levels not seen since August 2024, setting up a high-stakes standoff in the derivatives market. Bitcoin Funding Rates Plunge \u2014 Echoes of 2024 Rally Setup Bitcoin is trading just above $68,000 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":68308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}