Crypto markets are bouncing back after Bitcoin briefly hit a seven-week low early this morning.

The OG cryptocurrency dipped as low as US$47,840 around 8am AEST, but since then has been up sharply. At 11.39am it was trading at $US51,454 ($66,575), a three-day high.

As thick green candles filled traders’ screens, positive sentiment seemed to be returning to Crypto Twitter, which had been fearing a dip as low as around $US42,000.

Still a few were worried it could be a false reversal pattern and the eight-day correction was not over.

But as of lunchtime it was the bears who were getting rekt. There had been $US299 million in liquidations of cryptocurrency futures traders in the past four hours, according to Bybit. Ninty-three per cent of them were short positions and just $US20 million were long.

Elsewhere, Dogecoin was down five per cent to US27c and formerly-red hot privacy coin PirateCoin was down by a third, but nearly everything else was up. Only nine of the top 100 coins on Coingecko were in the red, including three stablecoins inversely correlated to the overall market.

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Ethereum was up 9.4 per cent to $US2,465 ($3,167), just six per cent from its all-time high of US$2,640 set on Thursday.

Leo Token and PancakeSwap had hit all-time highs around 11am, while Solana and Compound did so yesterday.

 

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