$357,020,000 in Bitcoin and Crypto Liquidated As BTC Price Pushes Above $80,000

$357,020,000 in <a href="https://investment-policy.com/btc-usd/">Bitcoin</a> and Crypto Liquidated As <a href="https://investment-policy.com/btc-usd/">BTC</a> Price Pushes Above $80,000

People who bet that Bitcoin’s price would fall are now losing money as the price surges past $80,000. This is happening across the crypto market as a whole.

Over the past 24 hours, crypto traders lost $375.02 million in leveraged positions, according to data from CoinGlass.

The vast majority of the liquidations hit traders going short, coming in at $304.96 million.

Bitcoin saw the largest losses, with $160.8 million worth of trades closed due to market volatility, most of which were bets that the price would go down. Ethereum experienced similar losses of $84.7 million, also largely from losing short positions.

Over 98,000 traders were forced out.

Bitcoin is now trading at $80,416, up nearly 3% in the last 24 hours.

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2026-05-04 10:21