[August 19 Epic Short Squeeze Liquidation Leaderboard: Multiple Whale Short Positions Liquidated at Billion-Yuan Levels] BlockBeats News, August 20: Yesterday, the crypto market experienced an epic short squeeze liquidation. Over $2.7 billion in short positions were liquidated across the network within 24 hours. According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), on-chain data shows that 8 Bitcoin short whales had liquidation scales exceeding $10 million, while 2 Ethereum short whales also faced liquidations exceeding $10 million. Among them: - Whale 0x8c96e5a2d770f9f2c9d2464ce4e741df0b2bca57 had $96.39 million worth of Bitcoin shorts liquidated. - Whale 0x0ddf9bae2af4b874b96d287a5ad42eb47138a902 (pension-usdt.eth) had $108 million worth of Ethereum shorts liquidated. - Whale 0x004edcd40360e293e4cf260d2ebdf8c7076c1bb8 (bowen1476) had $71.46 million worth of Bitcoin shorts liquidated. - Whale 0x8eff8ff863c1a54ec6697b7ad98fe30aa344bd5e (Shamrocked) had $61.11 million worth of Bitcoin shorts liquidated. [Original Link]