BTC Liquidation — 2026-03-16 14:05

$10.85M liquidated in 89 seconds. BTC dropped 0.1% from $74,366 to $74,276. Replay the event below.

Peak Price

$74,366

BTC

Lowest Price

$74,276

-0.1%

Total Liquidated

$10.85M

Long Squeeze

Duration

89s

14:09:54 UTC

BTC Liquidation Cascade · 2026-03-16

Price

$74,366

Liq Vol

Depth

100%

BTC AUTOPSY

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PRE-EVENT

Market conditions before the cascade. Orderbook depth appears normal.

Price

Orderbook Depth %

Liquidation Volume

Timeline (s)

0.00

Event Breakdown

Long Liquidations

$10.85M

Forced sells from leveraged longs

Short Liquidations

$0.00

Forced buys from leveraged shorts

Price Recovery

$74,321

Final price after cascade exhaustion

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