Bitcoin Price Slides 3% As “Trump Insider” Whale Doubles Down On Bitcoin Short
The Bitcoin price slid 3% in the past 24 hours to trade at $111,910 as of 3:51 a.m. EST on trading volume that plunged 23% to $73.3 billion. This comes as a whale investor, who earned close to $200 million by shorting Bitcoin and Ethereum just before Donald Trump’s tariff announcement against China on October 10, doubled down on another short against BTC with 10x leverage Data from Hypurrscan shows that a the whale trader and possible ”Trump insider’ with the address “0xb317” on the decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid deposited $40 million in USDC. Shortly after that, the whale built a 10X short position in Bitcoin valued at around $340 million. Based on the account’s entry price of $116,009, it has already amassed more than $700,000 in unrealized profits. BREAKING: TRUMP INSIDER WHALE IS NOW SHORT $340M $BTC The HyperUnit Bear Whale who shorted $700M of $BTC and $350M of $ETH right before Friday’s market crash (making ...