News doesn’t move (any) markets, sentiment and positioning does. Media likes to assign a reason after the fact. Lots of leveraged long positions and stop losses were wiped out so a small dip became a big one by automated “sell at any price” selling. Occasional big surprises do move individual securities, but bitcoin is not a security.
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So you are saying this was effectively a short squeeze. Some whale might have fat fingered something but the bulk of the volume was just stop losses.