"BTC OG Whale" has re-established a short position of 500 million USD, with its associated matrix having previously coordinated a short that has already profited over 150 million USD.

BlockBeats news, on October 14, according to on-chain AI analysis tool Coinbob monitoring, BTC OG Whale address (0xb317) currently holds 4,394.7 BTC short positions (valued at approximately 498 million USD) in a 10x leverage full warehouse mode, with an opening price of 115,288 USDC, and the current liquidation price is 124,272 USDC (requiring a rise of 7.8%). The margin utilization rate has reached 83.22%, which belongs to a high-risk high-reward strategy. This whale address has unrealized gains of over 9 million USD in the past 30 days, recently building positions in batches through high-frequency trading, currently with a total account net worth of 60 million USD. According to Arkham tracking, this "high-profile BTC OG whale that frequently swaps ETH" transferred a large amount of funds from address (0x2eA) to a transit address (0x4f9) on October 10, which then injected funds multiple times into trading address (0xb31). Immediately before the "black swan" event, the two related addresses (0x2eA) accurately shorted ETH, and (0xb31) shorted BTC and profited sequentially; currently, (0x4f9) still holds about 386 million USD in liquid funds. The synchronized heavy shorting and profit-making operations of the two addresses on the eve of the big dump have sparked community discussions about whether they hold "insider information." Data shows: October 10 concentrated deposits → shorting before the event → October 11 batch closing positions and withdrawals - (0x2eA): closed nearly 30,000 ETH short orders on October 11, profiting about 72.32 million USD; - (0xb31): closed BTC short orders on October 11, profiting over 85 million USD; currently still holds 4,394.7 BTC shorts, total holdings about 500 million USD, opening price of 115,000 USD; unrealized gains approximately 8.589 million USD. - (0x4f9): still has a large amount of USDC ammunition (about 386 million); transferred 80 million USD to (0xb317D) on October 10, and another 40 million USD on October 13; after profiting on October 11, accumulated withdrawals of 120 million USD.