BlockBeats News, January 20, According to Hyperinsight monitoring, “Strategy Opponent” shorted 1770.52 BTC (approximately $161 million) at 14:13 with 20x leverage, with an average entry price of $91,089.
This address has been building short positions in main cryptocurrencies such as BTC and ETH during Strategy’s continuous accumulation of BTC, and at one point, with a position size of $120 million, it was the largest BTC short on Hyperliquid.
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