Prominent Short Seller Closes $5.13M BTC Shorts in Past 4 Hours; Month-to-Date Closures Reach $39.5M

A prominent short seller closed BTC short positions worth $5.13M in the past 4 hours, earning about $1.49M on Dec. 17, Coinbob address monitoring data show. Month-to-date BTC short closures total about $39.5M, with current BTC short positions at about $55.36M. The address also opened a 100x leveraged long position on XYZ worth around $1M.