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Bitcoin Bull Nears $100M Liquidation Cliff—Just as the Market Starts to Yawn

Bitcoin Bull Nears $100M Liquidation Cliff—Just as the Market Starts to Yawn

Author:
Coindesk
Published:
2025-05-30 05:44:08
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Another day, another crypto whale gasping for air. James Wynn—once a roaring Bitcoin maximalist—now teeters on the brink of total liquidation after racking up nearly nine figures in losses. The irony? Wall Street barely blinked.

How the mighty fall: Wynn’s leveraged long positions, once the envy of Crypto Twitter, have imploded faster than a meme coin’s utility. Sources whisper the $100M bloodbath could force a fire sale—just in time for the next cycle’s vultures to swoop in.

Pro tip: When your ‘hedge’ against traditional finance starts mirroring its worst hedge fund meltdowns, maybe reconsider the strategy. Or double down. This is crypto, after all—where ‘risk management’ is often just two words shoved into a whitepaper.

(Coinglass)

Data from Hyperdash shows that Wynn’s margin usage is nearing 100%, which WOULD result in a total liquidation of his position, though Wynn recently made a deposit of $376,000 to bolster his defenses.

(Hyperdash)

The trader, known for making aggressive bets under the pseudonym "moonpig," currently holds a long position of approximately 1,690 BTC, valued at roughly $178.78 million.

On-chain data shows that Wynn’s 40x leveraged BTC bets now carry an unrealized loss of approximately $3.5 million, representing a negative return of 77%.

But with BTC trading NEAR $106,000, just slightly above Wynn’s liquidation price of around $104,607, any further decline in the asset’s price could trigger automatic forced sales.

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