I'm not sure if I understood you correctly as there are multiple ways one can short Bitcoin at the moment if they wish to. But in the end I think we all need to

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly as there are multiple ways one can short Bitcoin at the moment if they wish to. But in the end I think we all need to remember that any theory presented by anyone here would only serve as a hypothesis based on speculation. There's no way to prove it as nobody really knows what's going on except those key individuals involved.