Bitcoin is indeed a decentralized monetary system.
But is the situation same?
Isn't the manipulation from Market Makers(MMs) has intensified recently?
Since December last year, many big financial institution were able to enter the market and now hold a decent percentage of the whole marketcap. I was watching the Bitmex charts and noticed how badly the manipulation is being done. The bulk holders are screwing longs and shorts equally without any set pattern. Bitcoin, since the year started, isn't following any chart sequence because MMs understand how the market sentiment works. Added to that, those exchanges who have all the data of sell and buy orders are also a big manipulator in the game.
Even Goldman Sachs one of biggest invesment institution now has bought one of the exchangers, Poloniex. With the influx of big institutions with big capital, maybe in the future market will be controlled by the big financiers