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“In the 24 hours to Oct. 9, Ether force-sold (liquidated) positions totaled about $356M versus Bitcoin's $298M, and adjusted for market size (per $1B of coin value: Ether $1.2M vs Bitcoin $180K), Ether's forced selling was about 6x that of Bitcoin despite Bitcoin being more than 5x larger by market cap.”
Plain restatementOver a 24-hour window ending early on 9 October 2026, aggregated crypto derivatives data showed roughly $356 million of Ether positions and roughly $298 million of Bitcoin positions closed out by exchanges, and because Bitcoin's market capitalisation is more than five times Ether's, Ether's liquidations per dollar of market value were roughly six times Bitcoin's.
This post's main numbers check out against the source it names. CoinDesk reported on 9 October 2026 that about $356 million in Ether positions and $298 million in Bitcoin positions were force-closed over 24 hours, and that Bitcoin's market value is more than five times Ether's, which works out to roughly six times more forced selling per dollar of Ether's size. A different outlet ran the same calculation on a slightly different data snapshot and got about seven times, so the direction is well supported. Two caveats are worth knowing. Liquidation tallies for that same window ranged from about $311 million to $356 million for Ether and about $215 million to $300 million for Bitcoin depending on when the snapshot was taken, and the data provider itself has said that exchange feeds publish only a fraction of liquidations during fast moves, so these totals are estimates rather than exact counts. A smaller slide in the post also says traders betting on a rise were paying those betting on a fall on 7 October, while data reported that day showed the payment was flowing the other way.
[drifted from the evidence:] In the 24 hours to Oct. 9, Ether [drifted from the evidence:] force-sold (liquidated) positions [drifted from the evidence:] totaled about $356M versus Bitcoin's $298M, and [drifted from the evidence:] adjusted for market size (per $1B of coin value: Ether $1.2M vs Bitcoin $180K), Ether's forced selling was about 6x that of Bitcoin [drifted from the evidence:] despite Bitcoin being more than [drifted from the evidence:] 5x larger by market [drifted from the evidence:] cap.
[added by the neutral restatement:] Over a 24-hour window ending early on 9 [added by the neutral restatement:] October 2026, aggregated crypto derivatives data showed roughly $356 million of Ether positions and [added by the neutral restatement:] roughly $298 million of Bitcoin [added by the neutral restatement:] positions closed out by exchanges, and because Bitcoin's market capitalisation is more than [added by the neutral restatement:] five times Ether's, Ether's liquidations per dollar of market [added by the neutral restatement:] value were roughly six times Bitcoin's.
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- The two headline dollar figures match the named source. CoinDesk's 9 October 2026 article reports about $356 million in Ether liquidations and $298 million in Bitcoin liquidations over 24 hours.
- The size comparison matches the source. CoinDesk states bitcoin's market value is more than five times ether's, which is what the post says.
- The "about 6x" size-adjusted framing matches the source's own framing and reproduces arithmetically. CoinDesk's headline describes ether liquidations running at six times bitcoin's rate, and the post's per $1B figures recompute correctly from Bitcoin's roughly $1.66 trillion and Ether's roughly $300 billion market caps as of 9 October 2026.
- An independent outlet ran the same calculation on a different snapshot of the same window and reached a similar conclusion, about $1 million per $1 billion for Ether versus about $160,000 for Bitcoin.
- The leverage arithmetic in the post is correct as stated: 100 divided by 20 is 5%, and 100 divided by 30 is about 3.3%. The post also notes the exchange closes the position before the deposit is fully gone, which is how maintenance margin works in practice.
- The post's closing line, that forced selling tracks how much was borrowed rather than how big the coin is, is consistent with the open interest data reported for 7 October 2026, which showed Ether's open interest at 10.4% of its market cap versus Bitcoin's 3.2%.
- The 7 October figure cited on slide 5 is close to the reported total. Crypto Briefing reported approximately $608 to $609 million liquidated in that 24-hour window.
- The post presents $356M and $298M as settled figures, but tallies for the same window varied by snapshot time and vendor, with Ether reported between roughly $311 million and $356 million and Bitcoin between roughly $215 million and $300 million. The pair the post uses sits at the top of both ranges. This does not reverse the conclusion, since Ether exceeded Bitcoin in every tally found, but it makes the precision implied by two exact dollar figures greater than the data supports.
- Neither the post nor the retrieved coverage flags that aggregated liquidation totals are built from throttled exchange feeds. The data provider itself has said Binance publishes only one liquidation order per second and that its reported totals can be far below reality during fast moves. Because the undercount is not necessarily even across assets or venues, the 6x ratio is an estimate from an incomplete feed rather than a measured quantity.
- Slide 5 says about $608M was force-sold on 7 October, "mostly leveraged bets that Ether would rise." Roughly $545 million of that total was long positions across the whole market, while Ether longs specifically were reported at more than $221 million, about a third of the total. The market-wide long share has been attached to one asset.
- The funding-rate description on slide 5 does not match what was reported for that date: the post says those betting on a rise were paying those betting on a fall, but CoinGlass data reported on 7 October 2026 showed Ether's funding rate had turned negative, meaning short sellers were paying longs. Positive funding may describe the build-up before the drop, but the post presents it without that distinction.
- Whether the two per $1B figures ($1.2M and $180K) appear in the CoinDesk article as cited, or are the post's own derivation presented under CoinDesk's name. They are arithmetically sound either way.
- The exact end time of the 24-hour window behind the $356M/$298M pair. A snapshot matching those figures is described as ending 04:05 UTC on 9 October 2026, but CoinDesk's own cut-off time was not visible in the text retrieved.
- The true magnitude of liquidations in that window, given the acknowledged throttling of exchange liquidation feeds. The direction of the Ether versus Bitcoin gap is consistent across sources; the exact 6x multiple is not independently measurable.
- Market capitalisation inputs differ by source as of 9 October 2026, with one outlet quoting Ether at about $233 billion and Bitcoin at about $1.33 trillion against others quoting about $300 billion and $1.66 trillion. The ratio stays in the five to seven range either way.
The cited article exists and says what the post says it says. CoinDesk reported that ether traders suffered about $356 million in liquidations over 24 hours, exceeding bitcoin's $298 million despite ether's market value being less than one-fifth as large, and that crypto liquidations totalled $1.19 billion including more than $1 billion in bullish positions, as interest-rate concerns, geopolitical tensions and warnings about artificial intelligence rattled leveraged markets. The article states that bitcoin's market value is more than five times ether's. The figures are snapshot-dependent. Crypto Briefing noted that estimates of ether liquidations vary, running from approximately $318 million to $335 million with some tallies climbing toward $356 million, while bitcoin's figure landed between roughly $215 million and $300 million over the same window. A separate tally put ether at about $345 million against roughly $262 million for bitcoin, citing CoinGlass liquidation data. Another snapshot, taken from CoinGlass, showed total liquidations of $974 million with Ethereum at $311 million and Bitcoin at $238 million. The size-adjusted arithmetic is independently reproducible. One outlet computed roughly $345 million of ether liquidations against a market value of about $295 billion as more than $1 million for every $1 billion of capitalisation, versus bitcoin's $262 million against a market value above $1.6 trillion at about $160,000 per $1 billion, leaving ether's per-dollar liquidation intensity roughly seven times bitcoin's. Using the post's own inputs: ETH market cap was $303.80B as of 9 Oct 2026, 9:08 pm EDT and BTC market cap was $1.66 trillion, representing Bitcoin dominance of 57.38%. $356M / $303.8B gives about $1.17M per $1B; $298M / $1.66T gives about $180K per $1B; the ratio is about 6.5x and the market cap ratio is about 5.5x. On the data's known limitation: CoinGlass has stated that Binance provides only one liquidation order per second rather than all liquidations, and during the October 2025 event it said the $19.13 billion total was likely much higher for that reason. It also said Binance's reported liquidation totals were "10 to 20 times lower" than reality because the WebSocket API restricts output to one liquidation per second even when thousands occur. Context for why Ether was hit harder: CoinGlass data as of 7 Oct 2026 showed bitcoin open interest at 3.2% of market capitalisation versus ether at 10.4%. On the post's Oct 7 slide: Crypto Briefing reported approximately $608 to $609 million liquidated in the 24-hour window, with long positions accounting for roughly $545 million and shorts about $64 million, using Coinglass data pulled from multiple exchanges. However, on the funding direction, CoinGlass data showed Ethereum's open-interest-weighted funding rate at -0.0041% and its volume-weighted rate at -0.0034%, with negative funding indicating short sellers paying longs.
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