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title: "Why Did Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Drop Almost 15% Today?"
url: https://diffcoin.com/why-did-dogecoin-and-shiba-inu-drop-almost-15-today/
description: "The prices of both Shiba Inu and Dogecoin fell double-digits on Friday after Bitcoin dropped below $67,000. This decline has seen both meme coins lose their"
published: 2024-03-15
updated: 2024-03-15
author: "Mila"
site: "Diffcoin"
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# Why Did Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Drop Almost 15% Today?

The prices of both Shiba Inu and Dogecoin fell double-digits on Friday after Bitcoin dropped below $67,000. This decline has seen both meme coins lose their gains for the last few days, triggering losses for investors and traders alike. But what was the cause of the crash?

## Dogecoin, Shiba Inu Follow Bitcoin

The price eras experienced by Dogecoin and Shiba Inu on Friday have less to do with a particular development for the assets themselves and more to do with Bitcoin. Bitcoin, which had seen a massive rally from $15,000 to $73,000, experienced a correction and dipped as low as $65,700 on Friday.

Given that Bitcoin is the market leader and the price action of altcoins often mirrors it, leading to a similar price crash among coins such as Shiba Inu and dogecoin. While Bitcoin fell around 9%, the impact of the crash was much more pronounced on the altcoins.

Dogecoin, for one, saw a 14% crash, with its price dropping from $0.18 to as low as $0.16. In a similar fashion, the Shiba Inu price fell a bit further than Dogecoin with an almost 15% decrease in price to bring its blow $0.0000129.

Despite this crash, Dogecoin was able to retain its position as the 9th-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. However, Shiba Inu has been kicked out of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap after its decline sent its market cap to $17 billion, putting it behind Avalanche (AVAX) with a market cap of $19.3 billion.

## Bitcoin Crash Triggers $812 Million In Liquidations

The price crash has washed out a significant amount of long positions in the last 24 hours as liquidations cross $800 million. As expected, Bitcoin liquidations have accounted for a large amount of these positions, but altcoin positions have not been left out.

According to data from Coinglass, Bitcoin liquidations reached $279 million, while Ethereum liquidations were $137 million, with Solana accounting for $41.59 million. Then, moving on to Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, both of these meme coins saw almost $30 million in liquidations among them.

In total, over 248,000 traders were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation event happening on the BTC-USDT-SWAP pair on the OKX exchange. The vast majority of the liquidations are understandably longs which account for 82.43% of the total liquidations.

At the time of writing, the Dogecoin price is sitting at $0.1605 with a 7-day decline of 4.12%, and the Shiba Inu price is sitting at $0.00002892 with a 7-day decline of 15.39%, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

![Shiba Inu price chart from Tradingview.com](https://www.tradingview.com/x/RvVMIBkP/)

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SHIB price recovers after dip | Source: SHIBUSDT on Tradingview.com
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Featured image from CoinDCX, chart from Tradingview.com

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