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The cryptocurrency sector has seen a remarkable recovery in the past hour, with quotes of leading digital assets, including bitcoin, going into the plus side.

This hour-long surge in rates triggered heavy liquidation in the bitcoin derivatives market, as information from Coinglass indicates a significant overweighting of short positions.

During the last hour-long session, $8.03 million worth of bitcoin positions were liquidated, of which $8 million were shorts and only $21,930 were longs.

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A massive liquidation imbalance created by the market’s dramatic shift in sentiment resulted in downside traders taking the brunt of the losses, reflected in an unprecedented 36.389% liquidation skew in just one hour.

Earlier today, Bitcoin began trading in negative territory, slowing the growth rate set the day before. However, in the last few hours, it regained its momentum and resumed its climb, hitting hard the bears who were playing against the growth.

While confidence and interest are returning to the market, the massive short-covering was no surprise as traders were pessimistic due to continued volatility in the previous days.

evertheless, the market has returned bitcoin to the growth zone as institutional demand picks up, and bitcoin-ETFs continue to show record daily inflows.

However, short-term charts show how quickly this pressure has emerged, raising questions about the future direction of the price. Bitcoin’s intraday movement showed the asset dropping to a low of $86,171 before rebounding to the $90000 level in what turned out to be an unexpected turnaround.

That said, according to CoinMarketCap, the price has added 2.61% over the past 24 hours, and the asset is quoted at $89,760 at the time of writing.