---
title: "Fake BlackRock ETF News Caused This Crypto Whale To Lose Big"
url: https://diffcoin.com/fake-blackrock-etf-news-caused-this-crypto-whale-to-lose-big/
description: "A whale lost $49,000 trying to trade around a false report related to Blackrock’s spot Bitcoin ETF."
published: 2023-10-16
updated: 2023-10-16
author: "Mila"
site: "Diffcoin"
---

# Fake BlackRock ETF News Caused This Crypto Whale To Lose Big

On-chain data shows that a wealthy crypto investor lost $49,000 on a bad trade following false reports about BlackRock receiving approval on its Bitcoin ETF application.

- As [noted](https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/1713920641521660232?t=Fsn-wxw-uz0Ize3L9OEGCA&s=19) by analysts from Lookonchain on Monday, an anonymous whale traded $613,201 in USDC for 20.5 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) using 1Inch shortly after the initial report dropped.
- At first, Bitcoin’s price had cracked above $29,000 in light of the news. However, after sources at Blackrock confirmed the news was fake, Bitcoin’s price quickly fell back to $28,000.
- Ten minutes after his purchase, the whale immediately sold all of his BTC back into dollars, but only received $563,970 USDC in return. That amounts to a $49,000 loss in just ten minutes.
- Data from Glassnode [shows](https://twitter.com/MitchellHODL/status/1713920075894292505) that price volatility around the event caused hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin futures open interest on BTC to be flushed within an hour.
- According to Coinglass, nearly 40,000 crypto traders have been liquidated within the past 24 hours.
- BlackRock’s approval would have marked the first spot Bitcoin ETF to reach US investors, which many suspect will welcome billions of dollars into BTC from institutions.
- In October, a former Blackrock executive predicted that a spot Bitcoin ETF would be approved by April 2024. Bloomberg ETF analysts also place a 90% likelihood of such an ETF being approved by early next year.

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