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Bitcoin surges above $68,000, liquidating $1.4 billion shorts as Treasury buybacks boost risk appetite

Summary by Decrypt
A White House sitdown with crypto's biggest names and softer Fed signals lit the fuse. But the charts show why the pain for bears might not be over yet.

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The US Treasury will double the size of its long-term debt buybacks, an announcement immediately welcomed by the markets. Bitcoin reached $69,500, resulting in the liquidation of $1.71 billion of short positions on the crypto market, including nearly $900 million on the BTC. The article $1.71 billion of crypto shorts liquidated after the announcement of the US Treasury debt buybacks appeared first on Cryptoast.

The US Treasury Department announced the matter on Wednesday afternoon Finnish time.

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arvopaperi.fi broke the news on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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