{"id":72024,"date":"2026-05-04T07:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/150-million-in-crypto-shorts-liquidated-in-60-minutes-as-bitcoin-clears-80000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:29:45","slug":"150-million-in-crypto-shorts-liquidated-in-60-minutes-as-bitcoin-clears-80000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/150-million-in-crypto-shorts-liquidated-in-60-minutes-as-bitcoin-clears-80000\/","title":{"rendered":"$150 Million in Crypto Shorts Liquidated in 60 Minutes as Bitcoin Clears $80,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400\">$150 million in <span>crypto<\/span> shorts were liquidated in 60 minutes as <span>bitcoin<\/span> crossed $80,039.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Binance futures showed a 62.8% short ratio before the breakout, one of the most lopsided setups in months. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Sustained ETF inflows and institutional absorption make a pullback below $80K structurally harder to sustain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A Market Built for Pain<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The <span>liquidation<\/span> data was confirmed within an hour of <span>bitcoin<\/span>\u2019s confirmed break above $80,000. The scale of the losses clearly implies how aggressively traders had positioned for a near-term downside move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Binance futures data showed the long\/short ratio at 37.2% long versus 62.8% short entering the session, meaning nearly two-thirds of open <span>bitcoin<\/span> futures positions were betting against the price. Funding rates were negative at -0.0051%, a condition where short sellers pay long holders daily to maintain positions. When funding is this negative, it signals extreme short conviction (and equally extreme vulnerability to a breakout).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Why the Squeeze Has More Room to Run<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The $150 million liquidated in the first hour represents only a fraction of the total short exposure still on the table. With 62.8% of Binance open positions still short after the initial flush, a sustained close above $80,000 mechanically forces additional buybacks, each of which adds upward price pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">Beyond the futures market, the options landscape threatens to accelerate this upward <span>volatility<\/span>, as data from major derivatives exchanges indicate a massive concentration of open call options struck around the $82,000 level.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\"><span class=\"citation-29 citation-end-29\">Furthermore, positive gamma pockets clustered around the $80,000 to $85,000 range mean that options dealers are actively selling into the rally to hedge their positions, creating heavy market friction.<\/span> This makes the sheer force of the futures <span>liquidation<\/span> event even more significant as it provides the aggressive buy-side momentum necessary to punch through this structural buffer.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- --> <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"12\">Lastly, historical <span>volatility<\/span> metrics suggest the market had vastly underpriced this exact breakout scenario. For weeks, implied <span>volatility<\/span> hovered near multi-month lows, lulling derivative traders into high- <span>leverage<\/span>, tight-stop positions. This sudden spike in realized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-volatility\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volatility<\/a> has effectively trapped late-arriving short sellers.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"12\">If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en\/price\/bitcoin\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bitcoin<\/a> can consolidate above the crucial $80,500 threshold through the upcoming daily close, the technical invalidation of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/bull-market-vs-bear-market\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bearish<\/a> setups could spark a secondary cascading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/understanding-liquidation-on-perp-dex\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">liquidation<\/a> event stretching toward $85,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/150-million-crypto-shorts-liquidated-bitcoin-80000\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways: $150 million in crypto shorts were liquidated in 60 minutes as bitcoin crossed $80,039. Binance futures showed a 62.8% short ratio before the breakout, one of the most lopsided setups in months. Sustained ETF inflows and institutional absorption make a pullback below $80K structurally harder to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362404,"featured_media":72025,"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\/72024"}],"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\/3947362404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}