Bitcoin\u2019s breakout attempt faced another rejection at $65,000 earlier this week, and the bears appear to be in control once again, driving the asset south to under $63,000.<\/p>\n
One particular bear has garnered the community\u2019s attention with massive short positions that they keep building on.<\/p>\n
Data provided by Lookonchain indicates that the unknown market pessimist continues to increase their leveraged position, which has now grown to 2,000 BTC. The analysts described them as the \u201clargest on-chain BTC bear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the trader is currently well in the green on their position, sitting on an unrealized profit of nearly $2 million at today\u2019s prices, their liquidation levels are not far off.<\/p>\n
The current price at which the bear will be wiped out is just over $63,500, which makes the position even riskier. For now, though, it\u2019s quite beneficial since BTC has seemingly lost the $63,000 support despite the positive CPI and PPI<\/a> data from earlier this week.<\/p>\n Gambler 0xff84 keeps adding to his $BTC<\/a> short and now holds a 2,000 $BTC<\/a>($125.37M) short, with an unrealized profit of $1.79M.<\/p>\n He is now the largest on-chain $BTC<\/a> bear.<\/p>\n Liquidation price: $63,528.92https:\/\/t.co\/OGB2Ch9tfI<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/fxldgN0j5x<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) August 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n According to analysts at CryptoQuant, the cryptocurrency has failed to rally due to several factors: the Coinbase Premium has remained in the negative for three months, the spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen weaker inflows, and there\u2019s not enough spot trading volume across all centralized exchanges.<\/p>\n The post The Biggest Bitcoin Bear Keeps Adding to Their Short Position as BTC Price Slides Further<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin\u2019s breakout attempt faced another rejection at $65,000 earlier this week, and the bears appear to be in control once again, driving the asset south to under $63,000. One particular bear has garnered the community\u2019s attention with massive short positions that they keep building on. Data provided by Lookonchain indicates that the unknown market pessimist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}