Haha. So, you want everyone to achieve this using Bitcoin?

No, not really. Bitcoin doesn't inherently make you rich.
Bitcoin only offers you sovereign control:

• no central bank can print BTC,
• no party can unilaterally freeze transactions (at the base protocol level),
• the supply rules cannot be easily changed.

the rest is up to you and everyone else involved in the speculative market. The fundamental modern monetary system was manipulated centuries ago, even back in your ancestors' time. That is why Satoshi excluded value control from Bitcoin's features and let it run on its own. Actually, believing in a currency's value is a choice left to each individual.

You forget that the whole bitcoin market is full of volatility, that makes it easier for whales to manipulate the prices. It's not destroying our bitcoin or the market itself, but its the poor mindset of the people that led them to be taken advantage by the whales. In a market where opportunities are free and unlimited, people will always want to be whales, unfortunately financial incapacity becomes a big barrier.

So don't blame the whales here. Blame yourself if your past choices in life are not making you successful and profitable with bitcoin.

I understood your message but if possible, please don't use "forget" because it can mislead newbies to an unsafe direction.

People can decide that they will become Bitcoin investors with strategy of buying with spot, withdraw bitcoin to their non custodial wallets, and hold their coins in such wallets but they must do everything rightly.

Choosing a good wallet (open source, non custodial, enough bits of entropy for wallet seed).
Creating a wallet and backing up that wallet.
Testing wallet backup for recovery.
Store both original wallets and wallet backups securely.

Always remember where they store wallets and wallet backups.
Forget is not like a thing to do with your wallet.

Forget is recommended about trading in this volatile and unpredictable market, buy, hold, and ignore trading.

OP is too focused on price action and that's the major problem that many newbies and beginners are facing, it's why you are talking about whales performance in the market, well if you don't know, whales are going to keep doing whales things.

You can just buy Bitcoin and go back to your normal life, until maybe few years later and see for yourself, I always pity people who reacted to what's happening in the market presently, that's too much energy draining.

Whales have always been here and guess what? We have hit new ATH many times already, stop focusing on the short term market behaviour for your own sanity sake..

And in fairness its probably more pronounced in the Bitcoin ^{and crypto} market anyway because of the
"open access" of it to literally everyone.

We consistently see threads created for example "4000 Bitcoin have just moved from x to y - so I will use
the preverbial "we" are guilty of being extremely focussed on every whale movement which doesnt actually
matter at all.


We need an absolute explosion in minnows who are willing to ignore what the Whales are doing and
focus on a long term strategy and to realise what Bitcoin has become over and above being just a
digital payment system. As has been quoted many times in the past in terms of watching the markets,
ZOOM OUT

I stopped reading at the sixth or 7th line because all I see just a rant from someone who lost their money by selling at the wrong time and expressing regret all around the place.

Bitcoin/crypto prices are manipulated which is true but whales are not controlling the prices they also take risk by moving huge amount of bitcoin or even selling them at low price with the hope of crashing the price but it doesn't mean the price will always go down after their deal.

Basically traditional whales still play a major role in driving the order book depths and market sentiments  Trust and Decentralization are the basic pillars of Bitcoin .

 According to the Game theory it is completely impossible to destroy the Bitcoin  because its network is non-deterministic as long as the network decentralized there is no single point of failure it means that no single whale can destroy its fundamental protocol .

Don't you think destroying Bitcoin economically is a very big disadvantage?
 
According to your views is the entry of institutional players suppressed Bitcoin's organic price ?or it is giving whales oppertunities for market manipulation? 

Well, the data says otherwise. There is a mass adoption of Bitcoin right now. Below is an article on the growth rate of Bitcoin in Coingeko:

source



And the growth is not slowing down, all thanks to institutionalization and all.


In as much as Bitcoin's market is an open market, you must see these manipulations. It is left for you to either follow the direction the whales are going, or you quit trading and hodl across different trends.

But then, i will love to ask you a question: what do you propose in solving whale's manipulation in an open trading market in Bitcoin? Because this is the root cause of your complaint about whale's manipulation—open market trading.

Since people are understanding the nature of Bitcoin, they either adapt or don't invest at all than complaining, whales manipulation has been in existence long before Bitcoin even got to $100k so it's not something new. Bitcoin hasn't changed from increasing in value as time goes, whether whales manipulate it or not we'll definitely or likely see another ATH so why can't people keep buying and holding instead of bothering about whales manipulation?

So what is the point of all these excuses about cycles and adoption?

If adoption is supposedly growing, why does it also seem that there are more whales, more people getting trapped, and more players trying to profit from manipulation?

Honestly, this forum sometimes feels less like a place where people question manipulation and more like a place where many people simply accept it because they benefit from it.

And regarding the idea that “Bitcoin tells you where it wants to go”: Bitcoin does not “know” where it wants to go.

A lot of the time the charts look chaotic precisely because too many powerful players are pulling in different directions.

It is like putting one piece of candy in front of a hundred children. Everyone wants their piece, but nobody seems to realize they may destroy the candy in the process.

When Bitcoin was tiny and there were “four whales and seven monkeys,” extreme volatility was understandable.

But if Bitcoin is supposedly maturing, how can we keep normalizing an asset reaching an all-time high and then losing 50% a few months later?

Yet every time someone criticizes this, the answer is the same:

“Cycles.”
“Learn to invest.”
“Look at this chart.”
“Read this link.”

But at the same time, many of you openly admit that manipulation exists — and you support it.

That contradiction is exactly what I do not understand.