Businessman and social media personality Dave Portnoy is a fan of crypto and he just can’t have enough of it.<\/p>\n
The founder of the sports and pop culture company Barstool Sports, he frequently discusses his crypto trades, whether successful or not, with his social media followers.<\/p>\n
Related: Popular crypto company shuts down as Bitcoin crashes<\/a><\/p>\n In 2021,\u00a0Portnoy admitted<\/a> to panic selling Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) when the market crashed.<\/p>\n In July this year, he again admitted<\/a> to losing millions by\u00a0exiting XRP two weeks before the cryptocurrency surged by 60%.<\/p>\n Now that the crypto market is crashing, he is again testing his luck.<\/p>\n Within the last 24 hours, more than 154,000 crypto traders have been liquidated and over $440 million has been wiped out<\/a>.<\/p>\n The total crypto market cap slipped 4.5% in a day to $3.04 trillion at the time of writing.<\/p>\n Bitcoin<\/a> (BTC) has slipped 4.5% to $89,470.98, Ethereum<\/a> (ETH) 7.5% to $2,916.40, and XRP<\/a> 7.5% to $2.05.<\/p>\n The dip has offered a lot of traders an opportunity to enter the market and\u00a0Portnoy just couldn’t resist. He recently\u00a0shared<\/a> with his followers on X that he bought cryptocurrency worth $2 million within an hour on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n XRP: $1 million<\/p>\n BTC: $750,000<\/p>\n ETH: $400,000<\/p>\n “Blood in the streets, Dave’s like a Piranha. Dave’s like a Great White. He’s just shark on fins.”<\/p>\n The move earned praise from Eric Trump, President Donald Trump’s son and\u00a0co-founder of the Bitcoin mining firm\u00a0American Bitcoin (Nasdaq: AMBTC). He\u00a0called it<\/a> a\u00a0“smart trade.”<\/p>\n Eric remains unfazed by the crypto market rout and said\u00a0volatility is a “friend\u201d and an opportunity to buy.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by TheStreet<\/a> on Nov 19, 2025, where it first appeared in the Trading News & Analysis<\/a> section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businessman and social media personality Dave Portnoy is a fan of crypto and he just can’t have enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21117,21116,81,21118,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-31075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eric-trump","8":"tag-barstool-sports","9":"tag-dave-portnoy","10":"tag-eric-trump","11":"tag-social-media-followers","12":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116424042404750407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}