Late Monday, bitcoin (BTC) suffered a short-lived crash to as little as $8,900 on cryptocurrency trade BitMEX whereas costs on different exchanges held nicely above $60,000. The slide started at 22:40 UTC, and inside two minutes costs fell to $8,900, the bottom since early 2020, in response to knowledge from charting platform TradingView. The restoration was equally fast, with costs rebounding to $67,000 by 22:50 UTC. All through the boom-bust episode on BitMEX, BTC’s international common value was round $67,400. Some observers on social media platform X say that promoting by a so-called whale – or giant holder – catalyzed the crash. In line with @syq, somebody bought over 850 BTC ($55.49 million) on BitMEX, driving the XBT/USDT spot pair decrease.
