Bitcoin Shorts See $21.92 Million Liquidated in an Hour

Bitcoin (BTC) had $21.92 million in short positions liquidated during the hour ending at 11:43 a.m. ET (15:43 UTC) Oct. 30, as its price rose 0.62%.

TokenPost collected and combined publicly available liquidation data from Binance, Bybit and OKX to produce the figures. The $22.97 million total covers those three exchanges only; it is not a marketwide count. Short positions made up $21.92 million of the total, compared with $1.05 million in long positions.

Across the same hour, Bitcoin moved from $77,000 to $77,480, a $480 gain. Short liquidations exceeded long liquidations by $20.87 million and accounted for about 95.4% of the three-exchange total.

The snapshot covers Bitcoin alone and the 60-minute period immediately before 11:43 a.m. ET. It pairs the 0.62% price increase with the much larger short-liquidation figure across Binance, Bybit and OKX. The exchange data does not represent the broader market. No other exchange liquidation data is included in the tally.