A certain whale closed a long position of 136 BTC, incurring a loss of $22,000, and then opened a short position.

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BlockBeats News, January 8th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, a whale closed a 40x leveraged long position of 136 BTC (approximately $12.4 million) at 13:27 today, incurring a loss of $22,000. Subsequently, they shorted 80 BTC (approximately $7.26 million) at 40x leverage, with an entry price of $90,997.7, currently showing a slight unrealized profit.

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