Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B 30m Before Crash - Insider Trading Suspected.

AleRunner writes: "Satoshi-era whale with 86K BTC shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump's 100% tariff announcement, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B across 1.66M traders. " writes Cryptonews, describing how one long time Bitcoin insider profited massively, and likely in an illegal way, from the losses of other Bitcoin traders. The "whale" ended up "pocketing between $190 million and $200 million in realized profits within a single day.", money take directly from the pockets of other Bitcoin traders. The aggrieved Bitcoin investors were upset with Cryptonews noting that "Community speculation intensified after crypto researcher Maartunn noted the correlation between the whale’s Satoshi-era origins and potential government connections, suggesting insider ties may have provided advance knowledge of Trump’s tariff announcement.". According to Cryptonews "multiple analysts calling the sequence “one of the biggest insider trades in history.”

Just earlier today, before news about the insider trade had broken clearly we discussed this very crash and even in that discussion there were crypto-boosters trying to get more people involved with BTC.