{"id":47687,"date":"2026-10-02T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47687"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:28:36","slug":"bitcoin-crashes-below-84k-as-crypto-liquidations-near-600m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47687","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Crashes Below $84K as Crypto Liquidations Near $600M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>It was just several hours ago that the primary cryptocurrency topped $87,000 for the first time in about ten days after the softer-than-expected US jobs report came out.<\/p>\n<p>Although that should be considered bullish for risk-on assets, especially when it&#8217;s aligned with the positive data from the PCE report earlier this week, the subsequent effects on BTC&#8217;s price were dramatically different.<\/p>\n<p>After all, a weaker labor market combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-tops-85k-as-us-core-pce-rises-0-2-mom-cooler-than-expected\/\">lower inflation<\/a> than expected should, at least in theory, reduce some of the pressure on the US Federal Reserve for more immediate hikes. Perhaps that&#8217;s why BTC reacted to today&#8217;s jobs report with an instant uptick from $86,000 to $87,200.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t the surprising part of today&#8217;s developments. What came next is somewhat unexpected. Bitcoin was rejected at that multi-day peak and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-rejected-at-87k-despite-soft-pce-and-jobs-data-as-qnt-night-explode-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">tumbled<\/a> to $85,500 first, before the bears took complete control and drove it to under $84,000 minutes ago. This meant that BTC had crashed by well over $3,000 in hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-reacts-immediately-to-weaker-than-expected-us-jobs-report\/\">release<\/a> of the US jobs report.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1450341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1450341\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BTCUSD-October-2-1.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1450341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD October 2. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The altcoins have followed suit. ETH tapped $2,750 earlier today but now sits $100 lower. XRP was rejected again at $1.55 and now sits at $1.45. ZEC, DOGE, LINK, XMR, and ADA have marked even more substantial losses of up to 7% daily.<\/p>\n<p>The total crypto market cap has shed almost $80 billion since the peak seen earlier today, and it&#8217;s down to $2.880 trillion on CMC.<\/p>\n<p>Data from CoinGlass shows that the overall wrecked positions in the past 24 hours have jumped past $570 million. $186 million came in the past hour alone. Naturally, longs dominate, with 99% of the liquidated positions in the past hour coming from such positions.<\/p>\n<p>The single-highest wrecked order took place on Binance and was worth almost $12 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1450342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1450342\" style=\"width: 1364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-02-215056.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1450342 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-02-215056.png\" alt=\"Liquidation Data on CoinGlass\" width=\"1364\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1450342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquidation Data on CoinGlass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-crashes-below-84k-as-crypto-liquidations-near-600m\/\">Bitcoin Crashes Below $84K as Crypto Liquidations Near $600M<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-crashes-below-84k-as-crypto-liquidations-near-600m\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was just several hours ago that the primary cryptocurrency topped $87,000 for the first time in about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}