{"id":28276,"date":"2025-05-23T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28276"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:46:47","slug":"this-trader-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-says-asset-is-dying-to-break-out-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28276","title":{"rendered":"This Trader Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Says Asset Is Dying to Break Out Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a roll in the past few days, surpassing its previous all-time high (ATH) and recording a new one above $111,900. While the crypto asset continues on this price trajectory, some traders are betting big on its next targets.<\/p>\n<p>One whale, the pseudonymous investor James Wynn, has bet $1.1 billion on BTC with 40x leverage on the decentralized layer-1 chain HyperLiquid. He has lived up to his reputation as a high-risk leverage trader and meme coin maxi by consistently<a href=\"https:\/\/hypurrscan.io\/address\/0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"> increasing<\/a> his exposure to BTC and other projects (including Ethereum, Sui, and Pepe) that he believes have potential.<\/p>\n<h2>Trader Bets Big on BTC<\/h2>\n<p>Wynn entered the long Bitcoin position about a week ago with less than $390 million and an average price of roughly $103,000. The bet initially had a liquidation price of $96,600 and a margin of $9.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>As the price of BTC rose, the whale continued to increase his position on the bet. A series of tweets from the market analytics platform Lookonchain revealed that the bet eventually increased to $415 million, $673 million, and even $900 million. At $900 million, Wynn\u2019s bet ranked first on HyperLiquid, surpassing the combined positions of the next six traders.<\/p>\n<p>On May 21, the position exceeded 10,000 BTC and became worth $1.1 billion. After bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-tops-111000-in-pizza-day-all-time-high\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">broke through<\/a> $111,900, the bet surged to $1.14 billion and was sitting on an unrealized profit of more than $39 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Wynn Sits on $14M Unrealized Profit<\/h2>\n<p>As Wynn increased his bet, he also took profits, with his<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1925444335417655450\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"> latest sale<\/a> on May 22 \u2013 $60 million worth of BTC to realize a profit of $1.5 million. BTC has retraced a bit since hitting an ATH, so the value of the bet has declined to around $800 million. However, at the time of writing, he was still<a href=\"https:\/\/hypurrscan.io\/address\/0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"> sitting<\/a> on an unrealized profit of at least $14 million despite having taken profits of more than $17 million.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his position and profit-taking strategy, Wynn<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesWynnReal\/status\/1925612213315727531\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"> said<\/a> BTC is dying to break out higher. He believes the cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-rally-is-still-healthy-despite-new-ath-on-chain-data\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">could<\/a> hit the $115,000 to $118,000 target by the end of next week or even within hours in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The whale insists there is a major psychological support at $100,000. Once bitcoin tops around the $118,000 to $122,000 range, there will likely be a cool-off and some sideways movement. Afterward, the market could witness interesting trends as the altcoin season begins.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/this-trader-bet-1b-on-bitcoin-says-asset-is-dying-to-break-out-higher\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">This Trader Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Says Asset Is Dying to Break Out Higher<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a roll in the past few days, surpassing its previous all-time high (ATH) and recording a new one above $111,900. While the crypto asset continues on this price trajectory, some traders are betting big on its next targets. One whale, the pseudonymous investor James Wynn, has bet $1.1 billion on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}