{"id":64228,"date":"2025-12-18T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64228"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:01:31","slug":"ethereum-bear-who-made-500000-shorting-eth-now-bets-1-million-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64228","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Bear Who Made $500,000 Shorting ETH Now Bets $1 Million Against It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto analyst Taiki Maeda has opened a $1 million short on <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), arguing its recent strength is driven by artificial, incentive-led buying rather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/ethereum-eth-price-predictions\">than genuine demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4lvRHZaCTR4\">podcast<\/a>, Maeda stated that he entered the ETH short near $3,133, claiming that the altcoin is being propped up by &#8220;Digital Asset Treasury&#8221; (DAT) buyers, not organic inflows.<\/p>\n<p>He points to a specific entity, <strong>BitMine<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BMNR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\">BMNR<\/a>), allegedly purchasing roughly $300 million of ETH weekly, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49480420\/ethereum-bear-who-made-500000-shorting-eth-now-bets-1-million-against-it?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Ethereum\" bear who made shorting eth now bets million against it>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto analyst Taiki Maeda has opened a $1 million short on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), arguing its recent strength is driven by artificial, incentive-led buying rather than genuine demand. What Happened: In his recent podcast, Maeda stated that he entered the ETH short near $3,133, claiming that the altcoin is being propped up by &#8220;Digital Asset [&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-64228","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\/64228","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=64228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}