Crypto Market’s Nearly 6% Slide Costs Bulls $1 Billion in a Day

Crypto traders lost $1.23 billion to forced liquidations over the past 24 hours, nearly double the previous day’s total. Bets on higher prices accounted for $1.02 billion of it as the crypto market cap fell 5.75% to $2.33 trillion. Long positions made up 82.7% of the crypto liquidations, Coinglass data shows. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below