Bitcoin Price Slips Below $84K as 20-Minute Flush Erases $400M in Longs

Bitcoin dropped about $1,765 in roughly 20 minutes early Wednesday, sliding under $84,000 and erasing over $400 million in leveraged long positions. The descent began at 01:45 UTC on Oct. 7, with a fifteen-minute stretch seeing BTC slip, three days before the anniversary of crypto's worst liquidation day.