Top Whale Watch: "BTC OG Insider Whale" Weekly Fund Withdrawal Nears $100 Million, "Pal" Huang Licai Liquidated to Less Than $100k Funds Again Buying the Dip

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January 21st, per data from the Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), here’s the latest on key crypto whale accounts: - **BTC OG Insider Whale**: Switched from profit to loss, with ~$47M in floating losses. Its core holding is an ETH long (~$663M, avg price $3,161, -32% = $42.4M loss). Also holds BTC/SOL longs. Total holdings ~$817M; withdrew >$97M this week. Now the top ETH/SOL long on Hyperliquid. - **CZ Counterparty**: Overall floating loss of $28.3M. Primary hit from an XRP long (~$74M, $15M loss). ETH long: ~$169M, avg $3,190, $12.62M loss. Total holdings ~$264M; withdrew >$31.34M this week. Largest XRP long on Hyperliquid. - **“Buddy” Huang Licheng**: ETH long got repeatedly liquidated during yesterday’s downturn, total loss $2.549M. Withdrew $4.258M this week; current account <$100k. Now holds a 25x leveraged ETH long (avg $2,945, liquidation $2,907, $30k unrealized gain). - **pension-usdt.eth**: 3x leveraged BTC long opened Jan 16: ~$89M holding, avg $95,600, $6.56M floating loss. - **On-chain Gold Largest Long**: PAXG (gold) long’s unrealized gain hit $670k (34%) this morning, then closed ~50% for profit. Current avg $4,415, holding ~$3.58M. Also holds on-chain stock longs; total related holdings ~$31.6M. - **Paul Wei**: BTC long has ~2.3% unrealized loss (12% of total funds; most capital remains unallocated). Adjusted BTC long/short trigger range to $86,700–$90,500; realized $4,060 profit.

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