Volatility alert! Bitcoin bears paying 19% interest to short collide with the largest accumulation wave in history, extreme long-short standoff brewing a major market move.

The calm before the storm? Renowned financial news account @DeItaone revealed that despite Bitcoin's recent upward trend, "bearish" bets in the market have surged abnormally. Data from CEX.IO shows that short sellers paid as much as 19% interest in April to hold short positions, hitting a new high since 2023. At the same time, Bitcoin is experiencing the largest spot accumulation period in history. The head-on collision between these two extreme forces of bulls and bears signals that a highly disruptive major market move is about to explode! (Previous coverage: Bitcoin faces a showdown this week with the FOMC meeting and tech earnings! QCP: If BTC breaks through $82,000, the CME gap could see it reach the $90,000 mark) (Background: Arthur Hayes: AI is the new subprime mortgage crisis; market narrative shifts from deflation to war inflation; Bitcoin to hit $125,000 by year-end) The BTC market is currently in an extremely contradictory and highly tense state, and a "long-short showdown" capable of causing violent market volatility seems imminent. According to the latest market insights cited by renowned financial news account Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone), despite Bitcoin's recent resilience and upward momentum, a massive amount of short capital betting on a price decline has flooded the market. BITCOIN SHORTS SURGE AS MARKET BRACES FOR BIG MOVE Despite Bitcoin’s recent rally, investors are increasing bets that its price will fall. Data from CEX. IO shows bearish traders are paying around 11% interest in April to hold short positions, briefly reaching 19% — the highest… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 28, 2026 According to data from the cryptocurrency trading platform CEX.IO, the strength and determination of this short-selling wave are extraordinary. The data indicates that bearish traders paid an average interest rate (funding cost) of up to 11% in April to maintain their short positions, and in extreme cases, this borrowing cost briefly soared to a staggering 19%. This not only shows high congestion in short capital but also sets the highest interest record since the beginning of 2023. Even when facing high holding costs, the short army remains firm in betting that Bitcoin will see a significant correction. However, what makes market analysts uneasy is that at the same time the shorts are frantically increasing their positions, Bitcoin's spot and on-chain data present a completely different picture. The report points out that Bitcoin is currently experiencing one of the largest "accumulation surges" on record. This means that whales or long-term investors are taking advantage of price fluctuations to continuously accumulate large amounts of Bitcoin, ignoring the threats from the shorts. On one side is a speculative army willing to pay up to 19% interest to short, and on the other is a massive buying force that is fearless of price volatility and is frantically hoarding coins. This extreme divergence of a head-on confrontation between "massive buying" and "massive short positions" is extremely rare. Analysts warn that this strongly suggests the market is about to see a major price move. It is like a pressure cooker with rising pressure; once the market direction is established—whether it triggers a chain reaction of long liquidations to the downside or an epic "Short Squeeze" to the upside—those on the wrong side will be caught off guard and forced to become the massive fuel driving a unilateral surge or plunge. BlockTempo reminds investors to strictly manage leverage risks in the near term.