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Bitcoin punched above $72,000 Thursday, extending a two-day squeeze that's wiped out the most short positions on record and mounted the first real challenge to a bearish chart that's held since November.
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Bitcoin punched above $72,000 Thursday, extending a two-day squeeze that's wiped out the most short positions on record and mounted the first real challenge to a bearish chart that's held since November.
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Bitcoin approached $72,000 in a second day of upside as crypto short liquidations passed $3.1 billion.
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Traders betting against crypto lost $2.74 billion in a day, more than the short side of the October 2025 crash that remains the biggest liquidation event in the market's history.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 6 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Bitcoin Hits Highest Price Since June as $3 Billion in Shorts Liquidated.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from CoinDesk (Aug 20, 2026, 04:29 UTC); the most recent came from Investor's Business Daily (Aug 20, 2026, 21:05 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “bitcoin price”.
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