「BTC OG」 Takes Advantage of Russia-Ukraine Conflict News to Execute a Double Strategy: Main Address Shorts Over $200 Million, While Associated Address Simultaneously Goes Long, Profiting Approximately $6 Million
BlockBeats News, October 22nd, according to on-chain AI analysis tool CoinBob (@CoinbobAI_bot), yesterday at 22:00, possibly influenced by the "Europe and Ukraine plan to end Russia-Ukraine conflict" news, BTC experienced a short-term 5.7% price increase, while ETH simultaneously rose by 6.3%. At this time, an address associated with the monitored "BTC Whale" (0xc2a) began to systematically close its $179 million BTC long position and $120 million ETH long position starting from 1:00 AM today, and by 4:00 AM, had completely closed its positions, realizing a profit of over $6 million.
Furthermore, according to monitoring, the main address of the "BTC Whale" (0xb31) maintained a 10x leveraged BTC short position, and at 1:00 AM today, increased the position size from $124 million to $235 million. Subsequently, as the BTC price continued to decline, news of "Trump's latest peace efforts frustrated, Russia bombards Ukraine" emerged around noon. By 14:00, this short position had recorded over a 30% floating return.
In yesterday's afternoon update, the associated address of the "BTC Whale" held a long position worth around $289 million, approximately twice the value of the main address's short position.
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