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Bitcoin Open Interest Rises to $8.09 Billion in Derivatives Snapshot

Bitcoin Open Interest Rises to $8.09 Billion in Derivatives Snapshot

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Bitcoin (BTC) open interest climbed to $8.09 billion in a perpetual-futures snapshot at 7:05 a.m. ET (11:05 UTC) on Oct. 21, with four of five tracked assets showing 24-hour increases. BTC open interest rose 4.04% over that period. Bitcoin open interest stood at $7.76 billion in the Oct. 18 reading . Long accounts represented 56.6% of Bitcoin accounts in the latest reading, down from 62.5% on Oct. 18, while short accounts made up 43.4%. Bitcoin’s mark price was $83,442. Its funding rate was 0.0100% every eight hours, matching the Oct. 18 reading.

Source: TokenPost

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