Big Buyers Storm In as Bitcoins Rebound to $91K Triggers Massive Liquidation Wave

After spending the morning flirting with the dungeon below $88,000, BTC clawed its way upward and blasted to an intraday high of $91,767. Bitcoin‘s latest rebound didn’t just flip the script on weekend traders — it triggered a full-blown liquidation bonfire across the crypto market as deep-pocketed buyers muscled shorts into oblivion.

Heavy Buyers Reappear

Bitcoin‘s weekend swing didn’t arrive quietly — it came with steel-toed boots, stomping through a crowded field of leveraged traders and reducing short positions to digital confetti. After dipping toward the $87,000 zone, bitcoin snapped back with a surge of green candles across several timeframes, each showing a burst of volume that strongly suggested larger buyers were done watching the market flail around.

The 1-hour chart offered the first clue: a deep wick into the $87,744 region, immediately met with hefty buying pressure that flipped the candles green in rapid succession. This wasnt casual retail enthusiasm — the volume spike signaled a coordinated absorption of sell-side liquidity. On the 4-hour bitcoin chart, that rebound arrived as a thunderclap: a towering green candle with volume several times larger than the preceding sessions. Anyone leaning too hard into shorts suddenly found themselves in a very uncomfortable position.

BTC/USD 1-hour chart via Bitstamp on Dec. 7, 2025.

After printing a bruising low near $80,537 earlier in the week, the market staged yet another reversal that began quietly but erupted once whales started snapping up discounted supply. The footprints were unmistakable — a sharp rebound, thick-bodied green candles across several timeframes, and the type of volume that typically means someone with influence decided prices had strayed too far.

BTC/USD 4-hour chart via Bitstamp on Dec. 7, 2025.

Then came the consequences. According to the liquidation data via Coinglass.com, crypto markets erased $348.32 million in leveraged positions over 24 hours, with $229.46 million wiped from longs during the earlier downturn and another $118.86 million from shorts as the rebound ripped higher. ETH led the carnage with $135.14 million in liquidations, while bitcoin added another $78.48 million to the global tally. The largest single liquidation — a painful $17.81 million — hit an ETH-USD position on Hyperliquid.

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Across 122,572 liquidated traders, the message was the same: overconfidence has consequences. Shorts were emboldened by the dip, only to get steamrolled once whales stepped back into the arena and turned the market into a squeeze machine.

Strategy boss Michael Saylor dropped a not-so-subtle hint on X today about adding more orange dots, suggesting his firm may have scooped up additional bitcoin. Historically, Strategy and Saylor follow these cryptic teases with a fresh acquisition announcement on Monday mornings.

The reversal wasnt just a bounce — it was a declaration. Buyers with size, possibly institutional, reclaimed the narrative, forced out crowded positions, and sent bitcoin marching back toward the $90,000s while leveraged traders searched for whatever was left of their accounts.

The question now is whether this upswing has the stamina to stick around and finally drag the market out of its bear-market doom proclamations and into a fresh bullish breakout. After the messy unwind from $126,000, holders are left crossing their fingers — and maybe a few toes — that this momentum doesnt fizzle out.