Crypto Trader Machi Big Brother Round Trips 56K to 12 Million

He did it again.

Machi Big Brother, the crypto OG born Jeffrey Huang, was fully liquidated on Hyperliquid late on October 14, according to on-chain tracker Lookonchain. His account is back down to $21.8K.

The painful part: Lookonchain says that over the past four months he turned $56K into $12.25M trading. Now it's gone again.

The comeback that didn't stick

At the start of summer, Machi was broke by whale standards. Lookonchain tracked him selling 34 Bored Apes in a month at a loss of about 399 ETH just to keep funding ETH longs, at one point withdrawing just 1,540 USDC from Binance.

Then August hit. Lookonchain reported on August 22 that he turned $152K into $12.72M in three days. By September 19 he was running $131M in longs across ETH, BTC and HYPE. He even strung together 12 straight winning PUMP trades in early October.

Then the market rolled over. Lookonchain says he lost $8.44M in one week going into October 9. He cut his BTC, HYPE and PUMP longs and went all in on ETH, holding 29,000 ETH ($73.64M) with a liquidation price around $2,486. Hours before the end, he was down to $129K and closing positions to survive. He didn't make it.

The scoreboard

This is far from his first wipeout. Lookonchain counted 335 liquidations by March and says he went from +$44.84M in profit to a -$33.35M loss.

Arkham's count is much worse. Its numbers, reported by The Defiant, put his Hyperliquid losses at $80.43M since September 2025 as of July 1. The trackers measure differently, so take any single "total loss" figure with a grain of salt.

Timeline

• Sept 25, 2025: Lookonchain says his profit had peaked above $42.6M, then about $30M of it disappeared in six days. (Later posts from the same tracker give the peak as $43.64M or $44.84M.)
• Oct 10, 2025: Ahead of the big October 10-11 crash, his ETH long was down over $8.6M, per Lookonchain.
• Oct 16, 2025: Liquidated down to $32.8K. He went from a big profit to a loss of more than $13M.
• Nov 4, 2025: Fully liquidated again. Account down to $1,718.
• Nov 19, 2025: Lookonchain names him Hyperliquid's most-liquidated trader since Nov 1, with 71 liquidations (James Wynn had 26).
• Dec 16, 2025: 200 liquidations since Oct 11. Total losses above $22.88M.
• Feb 11, 2026: He deposited 3.19M USDC over 20 days and lost all of it. Total losses above $27.5M.
• Mar 23, 2026: $30,268 left after 335 liquidations.
• May 23, 2026: Arkham puts his losses at nearly $78M (via Stocktwits).
• Jun 28, 2026: Lookonchain tracks the sale of 34 Bored Apes to fund margin.
• Jul 1, 2026: Arkham says losses top $80M. The Defiant reports his balance at about $81K.
• Aug 22, 2026: He turns $152K into $12.72M in three days.
• Sept 19, 2026: He runs $131M in ETH, BTC and HYPE longs.
• Oct 9, 2026: Down $8.44M in a week, with the account under $1M.
• Oct 14, 2026: Fully liquidated, back to $21.8K.

So... would you keep sending it?

Machi has refilled his account after almost every wipeout. If you'd just turned $56K into $12M, would you take profits, or keep pushing 25x ETH longs? Tell us on X.

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