{"id":52469,"date":"2025-10-13T05:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52469"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:46:31","slug":"trader-who-made-160-million-shorting-bitcoin-ethereum-before-trumps-tariff-threat-is-doubling-down-did-someone-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52469","title":{"rendered":"Trader Who Made $160 Million Shorting Bitcoin, Ethereum Before Trump&#8217;s Tariff Threat Is Doubling Down: &#8216;Did Someone Know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A trader who attracted attention for successfully shorting <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) just before the recent crash added to their position even as the market rebounded on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Investor Doubles Down On Bearish Position<\/h2>\n<p>The investor opened the position at $117,369 and was sitting on an unrealized profit of $3.70 million as of this writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/hypurrscan.io\/address\/0xb317d2bc2d3d2df5fa441b5bae0ab9d8b07283ae\">according<\/a> to decentralized perpetual exchange Hyperliquid. The trader took a 10x leverage bet to boost the position&#8217;s value to over $163 million.<\/p>\n<p>If Bitcoin reaches $123,510, which is 7.59% away from its current price, the trader will be liquidated.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the bet was taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48168425\/bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-dogecoin-rebound-after-trump-says-us-wants-to-help-china-analyst-sees-no-bear-market-signal-yet\">despite the market\u2019s sharp rebound<\/a>, with Bitcoin regaining $115,000 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44621245\/gold-backed-cryptos-match-yellow-metals-highs-following-trumps-liberation-day-shock\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction\">Bitcoin (BTC) Price Predictions: 2025, 2026, 2030<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Signs Of Insider Trading?<\/h2>\n<p>The whale grabbed headlines after opening &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48169001\/trader-who-made-160-million-shorting-bitcoin-ethereum-before-trumps-tariff-threat-is-doubli\" alt=\"Trader\" who made million shorting bitcoin ethereum before trump tariff threat is doubling down: someone know>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trader who attracted attention for successfully shorting Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) just before the recent crash added to their position even as the market rebounded on Sunday. Investor Doubles Down On Bearish Position The investor opened the position at $117,369 and was sitting on an unrealized profit of $3.70 million as of this writing, according [&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-52469","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\/52469","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=52469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}