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Bitcoin News: BTC Short Squeeze Liquidates $285M Sending Price Past $75K While AlphaPepe Stage 13 Keeps Filling Past $850K

04-15-2026 08:22 PM CET | Business, Economy, Finances, Banking & Insurance

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BTC's $285M short squeeze sends price past $75K while AlphaPepe Stage 13 keeps filling past $850K and the window closes.

BTC's $285M short squeeze sends price past $75K while AlphaPepe Stage 13 keeps filling past $850K and the window closes.

The squeeze was mechanical and specific. Bitcoin.com News confirmed Bitcoin climbed toward $75,000 after millions in shorts were liquidated amid US-Iran Strait of Hormuz tensions. The $285 million in forced short covering added to the organic buying the Iran peace signal produced and carried BTC from the $70,800 structural floor through the double top resistance at $73,800 to $74,929. MEXC confirmed the sequence: the Bitcoin price hits $75K on the short squeeze with the $530 million in total short liquidations across the session.

The $285 million in short liquidations is the concentrated clearing of positions that had been wrong about the diplomatic binary. Short sellers who had bet on continued Hormuz blockade and oil-above-$100 conditions found their thesis invalidated by a single Trump statement claiming Iran was willing to make a deal. The forced covering added to the organic buying that the peace signal itself produced, doubling the buy pressure that a purely organic signal would have generated.

AlphaPepe https://alphapepe.io/ Stage 13 kept filling past $850,000 through the same session. 7,600+ holders. Stage 12 sold out. $0.01450. The short squeeze is the session's mechanical story. $850K past is Stage 13's milestone story.

The $285M Liquidation Mechanics and What BTC's Floor Reveals

The $285 million in short liquidations is the largest single-session short clearing in the current cycle. Short sellers had built positions over two weeks of blockade, mine-clearing operations, and war escalation. Each of those events validated the bearish thesis in the session it occurred. The single peace signal on April 14 invalidated the cumulative bearish positioning that two weeks of escalation had built.

The specific mechanism: short sellers borrowed assets to bet on continued price decline. When the peace signal drove prices higher, the borrowed assets needed to be returned at market price. Returning at market price while the market was rising produced forced buying that accelerated the move. $285 million of that forced buying in a single session, combined with the organic buying the peace signal itself generated, produced the $74,929 high.

$850K Past and Filling While the Squeeze Runs Its Course

The developer who built AlphaSwap was on the Shibarium team at Shiba Inu, an operation that processed over 500 million mainnet transactions, before building this. A 10/10 BlockSAFU audit https://blocksafu.com/audit/0x8566F831eD30Da7C138faE827e50fe3558915Abd was completed before the presale opened. Instant delivery. No vesting. Staking at 85% APR.

Not Launched on DEX Yet. Stage 12 Sold Out. Over $850,000 Raised. Stage 13 at $0.01450.

AlphaPepe https://alphapepe.io/ is at $0.01450 in Stage 13 with over $850,000 raised from 7,600+ holders. Code ALPHA100 doubles the token count for entries of $5,000 or more. At $0.01450 a $5,000 entry produces 344,828 tokens. With ALPHA100 that becomes 689,655 tokens worth approximately $1,034,483 at $1.50 and $2,413,793 at $3.50. The $285M squeeze sent BTC past $75K in a session. Stage 13 crossed $850,000 in the same session by a different mechanism entirely. The squeeze requires a diplomatic signal to hold. Stage 13 requires only Q2's calendar to advance.

Join the AlphaPepe presale https://alphapepe.io/ before Stage 13 sells out.

FAQs

How did BTC's $285M short squeeze send price past $75K while Stage 13 kept filling past $850K?
Bitcoin.com News confirmed Bitcoin climbed toward $75,000 as shorts were liquidated following the Iran peace signal. The $285 million in forced short covering from positions built over two weeks of war escalation added to organic peace signal buying and carried BTC through the $73,800 double top resistance to $74,929. Stage 13 kept filling because its accumulation runs on product conviction independent of diplomatic outcomes.

What could a $5,000 Stage 13 entry with ALPHA100 be worth at Q2 launch?
At $0.01450 with ALPHA100 a $5,000 entry produces 689,655 tokens worth approximately $1,034,483 at $1.50 and $2,413,793 at the $3.50 Tier 1 projection.

Why does Stage 13 filling past $850K matter alongside BTC's $285M short squeeze?
The $285M squeeze is a session event produced by a diplomatic signal that may or may not hold. Stage 13's $850K milestone accumulated through every adverse session of the current cycle including every previous diplomatic failure. Both hit their respective milestones in the same week. One depends on Iran. The other depends on Q2.

Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments are highly volatile and involve significant risk, including the potential loss of principal. Always perform your own due diligence or consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.

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