Please PM me. I would try to sell you 1 satoshi for $1k. I see you are a smart guy and see that 1 sat cost much more than its current value.

Market is controlled by whales. The more whales we have the less powerful the single one is and less influence on the market whales have. So right now we see that one whale can almost instantly crash the market by -5% so the market is more centralized than we want and it is controlled by whales.

I doubt bitcoin would stop being manipulated with regulations in place, regulations will never be able to stop manipulation, the same manipulation happens in classic assets too, even dollars or euros, the biggest difference, I believe, is the volume and liquidity of the other ones compared to bitcoin. It doesn't take a lot of bitcoins to be able to manipulate the market heavily, however it does take a lot of euros to ever crash the eur/dollar market for example.

Whales, news, FUD, personalities, and a lot of factors controls, influences and affects the the market. However, no one controls bitcoin since it is in an open market. Whales manipulate the price and it creates a chain reaction since some people panic whenever the prices drop to avoid losses.

No one owns the market but the occurrence of different things around the cryptocurrency world influence and affects the volatility of the market.
Events, supply and demand, whales, controversies, adoptions are some factors thar bring changes in the prices.

The market can not be owned by a single or group of people in a conspiracy to control world finances. Never, as usual market is determined by supply and demand of the people participating in it. Either whales or pump, none can manipulate the market.

No one owns the market in its entirety, but perhaps there are some forces who controls the majority of the market movement that everyone of us here follows. These are the whales, and we all know how this current trend started: a simultaneous buy of thousands of bitcoins across several exchanges that happened on the first of April, and up until now we can see the effects of that single pivotal move. Also, the previous huge sell in the market also saw us drooping down sub-$8000 ranges from a high of $8700 just a few weeks ago, and again it's just a single chunk from a single entity.

They don't own the market, but they sure as hell control it with their own hands.

It's hard to ensure exactly who controls the market. I think the answer here would be all Bitcoin owners on the market, but unfortunately the system doesn't work like that.

Especially those who own a large number of Bitcoins have the power to influence the price. Of course, the effect I'm talking about is not 100%, but they can still be very effective. You know Craig Wright has a threat in this sense. I don't think he can, but he may affect the price a little.

in the end the Bitcoin market is controlled from the btc whales .
Same on the fiat market the riches control the market


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it is way harder to control the fiat market, almost impossible for a single person, even for a group of people since the liquidity of that market is insane compared to bitcoin. You only need around 20k bitcoins to create a massive crash, however that amount of money would be nothing for forex, the market wouldn't even move that much even if everything was sold at once.