Nearly $1 billion in crypto bets liquidated as bitcoin, ether and XRP slide

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Compiled by Best of Bitcoin from the sources belowEther accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures across the two largest cryptocurrencies, falling roughly twice as much as bitcoin.
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