An Whale Investor Shorts BTC and ETH, Facing Over $6.37 Million in Unrealized Losses

January 14: Upbit will list USDE trading pairs for KRW, BTC, and USDT, per an official announcement.

**Bitcoin Whale Closes 100 BTC Short Position for $22k Profit (Jan 14)** Per Hyperinsight’s monitoring (via t.me/HyperInsight), a crypto whale closed a 100 BTC short position at 14:37 on January 14, netting a $22,000 profit. The address currently holds no open positions and is on the sidelines. The whale’s address is known for capitalizing on short-term opportunities but carries elevated risk. While its long-term profitability has been boosted by several successful large orders, losses this month signal some uncertainty in its trading strategy.

On January 14th, per monitoring by HyperInsight (link: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the "Battle God of Victory" crypto trader (address 0x4331c) turned a loss into a profit on a BTC short position, closed the position to lock in gains, and ultimately netted a $4,095 profit. The address has executed 160 transactions to date. Just 4 of these trades incurred a combined loss of $5,191.12; all 156 remaining transactions were closed after realizing profits, bringing the account’s total profit to $323,500.

**Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan: Sustained Bitcoin ETF Demand Could Spark Parabolic Surge, Echoing 2025 Gold Trend** On January 14, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan posted: *“If Bitcoin ETF demand holds long-term, BTC prices could rise parabolically—mirroring gold’s 2025 performance. Both assets’ prices are fundamentally driven by supply and demand. The mainstream view links gold’s 65% 2025 annual surge to massive central bank purchases that shifted the supply-demand dynamic, and Bitcoin is now in the early stages of this same pattern.”* Central bank gold purchases spiked in 2022, following the U.S. freezing and seizing of Russian Treasury assets. Annual buys jumped from ~500 tons to ~1,000 tons, where they’ve stayed. These purchases shifted the balance but didn’t immediately lift prices: gold rose just 2% in 2022, 13% in 2023, and 27% in 2024. It wasn’t until 2025 that gold entered a true parabolic uptrend. The catalyst? Early on, central banks’ extra demand was soaked

January 14th – Brian Martin, ANZ Bank’s Chief Economist for G3 Economies, said the Federal Reserve may hold interest rates steady in January but argued a prolonged pause in its rate-cutting cycle is unfounded. He added the Fed should quickly resume rate cuts, with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) expected to deliver 25-basis-point cuts in March and June, pushing the federal funds target range to 3.00%-3.25% by mid-year. Martin noted U.S. inflation will gradually moderate in 2026 as the impact of prior tariffs on prices fades, wage growth slows, and housing inflation cools.

On January 14, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post reflecting on the 2014 blockchain vision: Back then, the goal was to build permissionless decentralized applications (dApps) atop a set of technologies—apps supporting finance, social media, ride-sharing, organizational governance, crowdfunding, and even a potential alternative network. Over the past five years, this core vision has at times blurred, with various "meta-narratives" and "themes" taking center stage. But the vision never died; in fact, the underlying tech powering it is growing increasingly robust. Vitalik noted that in 2014, dApps were still just toys, far harder to use than today’s Web2 tools. By 2026, Fileverse has become user-friendly enough that he frequently uses it for document writing and collaboration. "The decentralized renaissance is on the horizon—and you can be part of it," he added.