「Buy the Dip」 Whale Reappears with $116 Million Liquidation, Closes $4.62 Million Brent Crude Oil Short Position with Small Gain

April 15 — Per analyst Alicharts, Ethereum’s weekly MACD is currently forming a bullish crossover. In the wake of the past three weekly MACD bullish crossovers for ETH, the cryptocurrency’s price rallied 130%, 74%, and 98% respectively. Notably, while a MACD bullish crossover is widely viewed as a sign of strengthening bullish momentum, past performance is not a guarantee of future results. A comprehensive analysis accounting for the macro landscape and broader market sentiment is necessary.

Per Bloomberg, on April 15, Societe Generale SA’s digital asset arm Societe Generale-FORGE announced it will bring the USD CoinVertible stablecoin to MetaMask—the self-custodial crypto wallet—via a partnership with blockchain firm Consensys. This marks a key push by a traditional bank to expand digital currency accessibility in the crypto space. Users can now directly access and manage the USD CoinVertible token within their MetaMask wallets.

April 15 — Per Sky News UK, former President Donald Trump said it’s “very likely” the U.S. will reach an agreement with Iran before the King of the United Kingdom visits the U.S. later this month. When a Sky News reporter asked about the current status of the U.S.-UK “special relationship,” Trump claimed the bond “has already improved.” He added: “The U.S.-UK relationship is like this: When we ask them for help, they’re not there; when we need them, they’re not there; when we don’t need them, they’re still not there. And they still haven’t shown up.” Trump also noted his positive rapport with the King, saying: “I think I quite like Stammer.”

On April 15th, HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows the war premium has pulled back sharply amid a rebound in risk appetite. A whale with heavy positions across three major markets has booked $1.3 million in profits today, while further reducing its WTI crude short positions—total cuts now stand at $4.3 million. The whale’s total floating profit across these positions currently totals $4.7 million. Key position details: - **U.S. Equities**: Long Nasdaq 100 + S&P 500, total size $38.1M, floating profit $1.6M - **Commodities**: Short WTI + Brent crude, total size $19.2M, floating profit $1.33M - **Crypto**: Long BTC + HYPE, total size $15.9M, floating profit $1.8M Whale Address: 0x8af700ba841f30e0a3fcb0ee4c4a9d223e1efa05

Arkham monitoring data shows that Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss withdrew a total of 572 BTC from the exchange in two transactions—15 hours ago and 4 hours ago—valued at approximately $42.77 million on April 15th. Their last major crypto transaction was over a month ago, when they deposited roughly $128.5 million worth of BTC into Gemini. Post that move, their Bitcoin balance dropped to 8,800 BTC, the lowest level they’ve held since 2012.

On April 15, Bitcoin contributor Jameson Lopp and other cryptographers proposed a measure that could force Bitcoin holders to move their tokens to new post-quantum addresses—or face irreversible network-level freezing of their coins. Holders would technically still “own” these coins but lose the ability to transfer them. This proposal is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 361 (BIP-361), updated Tuesday in Bitcoin’s official proposal repository under the title “Post-Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Deprecation.” BIP-361 builds on BIP-360, which launched in February. BIP-360 is a soft fork (a network upgrade) that enables a new transaction type: “Pay to Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree” (P2MR). This leverages Bitcoin’s Taproot (P2TR) framework but eliminates key path spending—removing an element widely seen as vulnerable to quantum attacks. BIP-361 outlines the migration in three stages: - **Stage A** (active for 3 years): Prohibits sending new Bitcoin to older, quantum-vulnera