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James Wynn loses all of it, once more, shorting bitcoin

By Editorial Board Published July 11, 2025 2 Min Read
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James Wynn loses all of it, once more, shorting bitcoin

After dropping $100 million on leveraged Hyperliquid trades earlier this yr, James Wynn returned to social media to brag about shorting bitcoin (BTC).

Instantly, BTC then rallied to an all-time excessive and liquidated him.

Quickly after his return to X, he confidently opened a 40X bearish leveraged place price about $1.5 million on the time, with a liquidation value of $108,630 per BTC.

Within the hours earlier than Hyperliquid’s market-makers liquidated him, observers referred to as his guess a “bold hedge” and a “massive risk.”

He paid no thoughts. His X posts implied that he genuinely thought BTC’s value would plummet shortly sufficient to make his harmful brief place price it.

Sadly, BTC rallied in opposition to Wynn, surpassing $116,000 on Thursday. His initially assured “I smell a black swan” shortly devolved into one other plea for assist, “Got $100 to spare.”

Throughout his fast demise, he managed to advertise a couple of obscure memecoins and posted varied controversial political messages.

His X profile now describes him merely as “broke.” 

Web trainwreck spotters prompt any individual volunteer a wellness examine. Any person else prompt doing the other of what Wynn does, the “Inverse James Wynn.”

Again to $0 for the Hyperliquid degen

Wynn famously made $100 million after which misplaced all of it buying and selling digital asset derivatives a couple of months in the past. The gambler even frittered away $20,000 in sympathetic donations he obtained whereas making an attempt to “defeat the cabal” of market-makers. 

His actions throughout this time have been so weird that some folks suspected him of being some form of business plant.

Between this most up-to-date liquidation and his earlier huge loss on Hyperliquid, his whole losses soared above $20.5 million.

Wynn wasn’t the one loser throughout yesterday’s BTC rally, nevertheless. Compelled liquidations of brief positions from varied merchants exceeded $543 million in only one hour.

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