Weekly - Crypto Flash crash wipes out $500Bn in a few hrs (Get Smarter in 5 Min)
Flash crash and recovery, BTC holding at $47k, SOL up 42% & Algo 94% over 7 days. El Salvador BTC is now legal tender.
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🔥Crypto Market Update
On the face of it the market cap remains almost flat to last week ~$2.2T. But hidden underneath that is a $500Billion “Flash crash” that happened in a matter of hours. The market has since then recovered half that loss but it is a strong reminder of what I said last week - Crypto is a wild ride. Not for the faint-hearted. If you are using leverage you better know what you are doing, or you will get wiped out
Market cap chart - Dropping from $2.4T to $1.85T
So why did this happen?
No clear answer - someone started a BTC dump, that caused a chain of events taking out leveraged positions from various exchanges. The number of liquidations in the 24 hours (after that) by exchanges in total was ~$3.54B liquidated! During this time, 330,243 traders were liquidated. The largest single liquidation order happened on @HuobiGlobal
‘Bitcoin Day’ sees flash crash as president of El Salvador taunts IMF - find out more about what happened
Solana is still on fire - up ~44% over the last 7 days despite the market drop. Another new blockchain that is on fire is Algorand - up 94% driven by potential use a backend provider for apps in Elsavador - more here
Buying a Big Mac with BTC in El Salvador
🙋♂️Term of the Week - “Validator”
In contrast to mining on a Proof of Work blockchain network, Proof of Stake blockchain networks are secured by a distributed consensus of dedicated validators who have staked (locked into the network) a significant amount of token as long as the validator nodes are running.
Validators are queued for block-signing based on a combination of random selection, amount (weight) staked and length of time staked (age), and others depending on the design of the consensus algorithm.
🤣Just for Laughs
Hopefully, this is how the HODL’ers are feeling after the flash crash..
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