Bitcoin briefly drops below $62,000 as $1.5 billion in crypto longs get wiped out

Bitcoin briefly slipped below the $62,000 mark, triggering a wave of liquidations that wiped out approximately $1.5 billion in long positions across the crypto derivatives market. Leveraged bulls, it turns out, were not having a great afternoon.

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