Are there any instruments to short BTC/USD? If we remember correctly, Bill Gates has said he would short bitcoin if there was a way.

You need to look at the previous price history of bitcoin, in it you'll see massive red candles and massive green candles.

Funnily enough, these candles correlate with the amount of bitcoin longs and shorts often. When the numbers of shorts seem to be getting super high, the price of bitcoin jumps up a lot, and when the amount of longs get high, the price drops.

I've read a few other people's theories that this is manipulation by exchanges so they can gain a profit during the downward trend, however this cannot be proven.

My favorite charts that have recently sprouted up are the Simpsons charts, like when the price jumps up a ton, goes a bit sideways for a bit, then drops back down. That's a classic Bart formation.

In my opinion there's way too much sketchy stuff going on with futures exchanges, and it seems like its essentially rolling a dice at this point. Way too much gambling for me.

Of course there is a way, and if they couldn't find it then they weren't looking hard enough. Visit https://www.bitmex.com/ and you will be able to leverage up to 100x. Pretty intense and do your research before entering the ring that is leveraging.

Futures is simply another easy way to lose your bitcoins. If you enjoy gambling then it's worth it for the buzz, otherwise i'd trade more safely on the exchanges - preferably on a dex with low fees

entire cryptographs are full of pump and dump media manipulations that the whales regularily do,

i consider bitcoin will continue losing market share ultimately becoming an annoying and irritating arrogant group of cryptocurrency freaks.

No, but you may help your broker make ton of money by shorting bitcoin. Did you know that trading is, like gambling, a game of negative expected value and the only ones that gain in a long run are the operators (brokers or casinos, depending if we talk of trading or of gambling)?

i think the opportunity is now that its more likely that bitcoin will continue to drop and stop influencing the market in that extent.

no it does matter, because now you have the opportunity,

there are many reasons why bitcoin drops in price:

1. bitcoin futures are also now an opportunity to speculate with, we can here clearly say that the american banking cartel has successfully domesticated the wild bitcoin with their futures.
2. bitcoin has now a different situation not alone anymore but competing with more than 30.000 other cryptocurrencies for investors attention.

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This is a good opportunity for us to get a lot of profit from the bitcoin price drop, we can make a purchase at a cheap price and try to get a big profit.

Yes but for every dump there will be one stable state where it will stable around one week then you can buy from that dip it’s strategy followed and got some good profit . For me this strategy never failed in trading luck also matters some times.