Bitcoin ( BTC ) is rapidly recovering from its $10,000 BTC price drop as wild volatility keeps up pressure on traders.

What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 0 BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Derivatives show BTC price bets are already back 

Data from Cointelegraph markets Pro and TradingView shows BTC/USD clawing back more than half its March 5 losses.

That day saw Bitcoin finally reclaim its all-time highs from November 2021 , but whales were lying in wait for late longs on over-leveraged markets.

“There aren’t less people wanting to own bitcoin after this flush,” popular Bitcoin personality Hodlonaut wrote in part of commentary on X (formerly Twitter).

“This was a case of big whales moving the market like a wave, sending thousands of over-leveraged or under-informed small fish into their mouths.”
What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 1 Crypto liquidations (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

Per data from monitoring resource CoinGlass , the drop, which bottomed near $59,300 on Bitstamp, claimed $1.17 billion in cross-crypto liquidations. The majority of these were longs.

Examining market structure, however, a cathartic effect is visible — funding rates across exchanges have seen a modest reset from levels that observers argued were unsustainable.

What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 2 BTC funding rates (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

Open interest tells a similar story, but the latest estimates show this building in line with the BTC price comeback after an initial $3 billion flush.

What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 3 Exchange Bitcoin futures open interest (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

Bitcoin order book shows whale move ongoing

On the topic of trader behavior, meanwhile, trading resource Material Indicators is showing whales potentially shifting expectations of what is to come.

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A block of bid liquidity on largest global exchange Binance has headed higher, providing what potentially cushioned the correction from $69,000.

“On Feb 28th whales moved $54M in btc usdT bid liquidity on @binance from the $36k - $38k range and turned it into a buy wall at $52k. FireCharts shows that today they moved more than half ($27M) of that buy wall and converted it into a bid ladder that climbs from $60k - $65k,” Material Indicators wrote in part of accompanying comments.

“Too early to tell if this will be the extent of the pullback (for now), but it's clear that a large entity either has concern that price won't dip to $52k, or doesn't want to allow price to go that low.”
What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 4 BTC/USDT order book liquidity for Binance. Source: Material Indicators/X

Elsewhere, a popular comparison to BTC price behavior in late 2020 — when previous all-time highs were broken — continues to circulate.

Then, BTC/USD also saw a snap retracement, spending around two weeks below the new highs before finally breaking out.

What 15% BTC price crash? Bitcoin bulls charge higher as $67K returns image 5 Source: https://twitter.com/smilinglllama/status/1765111504192282915

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