Are their sites that tell us how much is still shorted? I think the most of the bleeding has stopped, but not totally..I would like to get others opinions that know what they are talking about. and when you explain things, dummy it down for me, lol...
Another thing Ive heard is that chinese exchanges are pulling a mt gox, but i dont believe that, I think most of them provide leveraging services and it was caused by my main hypothesis.
The amount of outstanding swaps on bitfinex has dropped by ~$10 million in the past several days so it is clear that a lot of positions on that exchange have been liquidated. There have also been numerious news reports saying that the crash has been caused by massive amounts of margin calls.