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Recently, we have seen lots of institutional fund to come in the market. Tesla have invested and possibly soon we will see rich people are using BTC as store of value. As the days go, we see the mcap is increasing. When it will increase more, what do you think, will the price manipulation be decreased? Or even effected? If we look at the Tesla announcement, it didn’t create huge changes. India may have a ban on crypto, that doesn’t effect the market. So, as we see the increase in mcap, will we see power of manipulation is decreasing?

Those so-called institutions you see buying Bitcoin in huge amounts will be the manipulators. They are not buying bitcoin to hold for 20-30 years for fun. They are here to make profits and whatever opportunity they have, they will go for it as long as the end product is profitable. They will long BTC, they will short it, they will set bull traps and bear traps just to make profits, so I say manipulation will still be there.
Certain stocks do have so many institutional investors, but we still do see manipulations happening from time to time.

Well, there will be always manipulation but the fact, it is not just easy as that, --even you owned 20-30 bitcoin, it does not have an effect on the market. Banning crypto in India or Nigeria does not have an effect, this is already proven when China banned bitcoin but there is no effect in the market. Because bitcoin has real investors, it is institutional or individual with a large and wide community, one group of people does not have an effect if they will not use crypto. However, many investors believed that bitcoin is truly profitable upon storing value, perhaps the reason they keep holding whatever happens.

May we see that the Tesla announcement having no effect on the trend but this encourages other companies to adopt crypto as this one leading company are already in. This can be a sort of manipulation instead, not only we commonly see it give huge uplift but this could be a reason why the demand keeps moving high as many investors are coming also.

It will soon all of these rich people will stop buying, they all have to start spending their Bitcoin later on. And from that time, buying demand will slightly go down and back to normal.

That's the truth behind crypto trading and not just crypto trading but then, similar thing do happen in forex too. Its a trick to always keep the environment booming at all times and it works. People benefit from it as well as others might experience some loses but then, its vital to a healthy trading environment.
What becomes a thing of necessity now is, being a trader that has been able to grasp that these things happen, learn to identify when it does happen and how to use it to your advantage. That way, it becomes a problem to you no more but one of the signals to watch out for.
spending you say,,, most persons view it for a store of value so, i doubt there would be any spending without more and more buys or investments going on as well.

The marketcap is now close around 1.5 Trillion. In a very short time period the marketcap have reached this from the marketcap of one trillion. This clearly shows how fast institutional funds have come into the market. There is rise in the price and the same is being caused by the very few big people on the market. This trend will continue, because these people keeps exploring different sectors. Now the turn is over cryptomarket.

At which point bitcoin at a normal price?  :P

This isn't new in bitcoin, since then, bitcoin has always manipulated by the whales and we know that they can I guess pump and dump with different strategies just like spreading FUD in different social media. But for now, I guess they hardly do this because bitcoin is too expensive and the fees are to high, they can't play perfectly the market because it needs a large amount to cover the fees.

I can't give any statement on this situation, institutional investors will I guess also a long-term bitcoin holder. Once they will sell all their bitcoin, that is the right time bitcoin will have a deep pull out.

Hard to say, it could lessen though, I remember early 2018 when there are 3 whales colluding with each other to move the price of bitcoin. But even though we have big players in the field, we can't discount the fact that they can affect the price negatively, not necessarily by manipulation but by simply moving there crypto around.

We also have one set of investors here, the miners, if they chooses to sell and make profits, like the big one, it can also affect the price. So it's difficult to say as they can move the price and influence it's movement whether positive or negative.

Before you can say that it will or will not decrease, you have to show that it exists and you have to be able to measure it.

I guess that the number of speculations will only increase in the next months.

More players start seeing that they can make money even if they are 'outsiders' to the crypto and are tempted. So hold your pants for the roller-coaster going up.

That's good in theory, but where is all this new money going to come from?  Everyone is losing work, housing, income.   Any professional trader would have bought in already.  :/

The manipulations will continue, but I think it is hard to know when the price will go down if the downtrend is coming because the manipulations will not just come from the whales, but the institutions can join at that moment too. But not many institutions will let that happen because they don't want to see their store value go down too far. Perhaps, some institution and, of course, the whales will prevent the drop, and I think we will see a big wall that will block the price to go down for more. All in all, this situation will be different than a few years ago as bitcoin itself become popular among the institution, rich people, and of course, the government. We need to be wise to act based on the market situations, so we can still benefit from that.

How much market manipulation we see in bitcoin has nothing to do with what number "market cap" is!

Market manipulation depends solely on the size of the market itself. Which is mainly determined by the centralized exchanges and how many traders are active in those platforms every day and how packed the order books are.
To understand what this means you can compare bitcoin market with a shitcoin market. You can see when for example a manipulation dump happens in bitcoin the price could fall 30% in most worst case scenarios while the same manipulation dump can causes a huge dump in that shitcoin up to 95% is very common.

It could also be affected by regulations too. Keep in mind that market manipulation is a crime everywhere.

With almost 1% of the market cap on the hands of institutional investors, market manipulation will continue definitely. I think that institutions can allow it, remember that they have the money to shield from a downtrend and they will see the prices going down as an opportunity to buy more bitcoin at a lower price, you even said that they can join in the manipulations and I think that they won't give it a second thought. Being wise is not enough, we also need to ready ourselves when the prices downtrends because we know that the prices will go up again.

As the marketcap increases the price might get even more manipulated specially by the whales

Manipulation will only increase even more for me because those institutions can also manipulate the price if they want. Like XRP for example, it already reached more than 3$ before but because of the issue on SEC the price now is lower than 1$. The price can't go low as that unless whales dump their holdings. The most affected here will be people with weak hands or emotion because they will likely panic sell or people that are new to cryptocurrency. People like them can attribute for those whales to accumulate more quantity at lower prices.

No but it is the opposite of it.
With this large institutions buying huge chunks of Bitcoin daily especially Grayscale, chances of them manipulating the market is high and knowing that they are holding huge amounts of it, it is easy for them to manipulate it.

Increased market cap is caused by these institutions slowly getting into the crypto market. Yes we may have seen some average Joes starting to invest into it but most of the market cap that has been added came from these companies and institutions. Manipulation will still be there and possible that it will increase because only a few companies are holding huge amounts of Bitcoin.

There are institutional funds pouring in the market and there are already billionaires already invested in the market and they did not jump in during this rally, there are billionaires that already invested in the market. We are not seeing that much price manipulation for a long time, the Tesla announcement made a huge impact, the price was around $33k when the Tesla investment came and now the price is around $49k and it is a huge change.

 

Nope. The price manipulation will never be decreased, instead, the price manipulation is nound to increase more due to these big institutions that are investing in to bitcoin and other crypto currencies. These big institutions are the very ones that would obviously be manipulating the price of bitcoin in the future due to their huge influence and bags.

Indeed, we find it more manipulations come than of decreasing. This never has an end, the more people are engaging in crypto the more it becomes volatile and filled with tricks and manipulations.

This could never change until such a moment that regulation will start, but this is far from happening. I believe the market remains to be decentralized no matter how this manipulation keeps running. Besides, this is a way also we gain profit and somewhat we are immune already. in fact, FUDS and FOMO are almost forgotten.

Well, it's still questionable if institutions are really buying Bitcoin in such huge amounts and what are they real motives
I agree that profit is what motivates them but I I don't think we can really talk about huge amount and institutional buying is still more exception than something that happens regulary. Also, we can't expect institutional buyers are Bitcoin enthusiasts and of course they are driven by profit but doesn't necessary have to be a bad thing.

I don't think it will decrease, it will continue to happen.

The fact that we are seeing more and more people investing a huge amount of money, will never go away. When we went down to $4K last year, don't you think that is a manipulation for the big guns to come down here? The fact that we burst up to $40K means there is a huge amount of demand that went through, and now we are closing to $50K.

In 2021 I think there will be a lot of institutions coming in, it will make bitcoin go up and then stable and very difficult to be manipulated like before. Right now we're seeing elon musk trending with his tesla project. I'm sure it's going to be amazing this year.

As you said, Tesla purchase didn't create huge changes... So should we really be worried about price manipulation? With so many different investors it seems really hard to manipulate bitcoin price. I believe many different corporations will invest in bitcoin, if they haven't done this yet, but the only risk for bitcoin would be if many of them joined together making coordinated movements in crypto market, that would be a real manipulation.
On the other hand if corporations stay independent among themselves and continue each one with their own goals manipulation will be a weak threat in this market.

It looks that the whales are changing. There is also a big market that most of us don't understand. The OTC market where the Grayscale is trading the GBTC is something that only a few in crypto have knowledge and can use them. Maybe manipulation will begin in this market next where only big players are allowed.

With the billions of dollars worth institutional money flowing into bitcoin, I expect to see decrease in manipulation by whales! However, whales are whales for a reason. They will probably move to other less known liquid cryptocurrencies to continue with their manipulation game and will continue to earn money. In essence, the method will not change but just the field will be changed.

However, with institutional money, more and more bitcoins will be locked out and taken away from supply. Not sure what kind of issues it will bring in! But the control should not be passed to the corporates! That might create big issues for us!

People talk about bitcoin price manipulation as if it is an established fact, yet there is not a single example.

Somebody please show me a documented example of bitcoin price manipulation. Note that simple buying and selling, and rapid changes in price by themselves are not examples of price manipulation.

Time may come that BTC price might stabilise due to huge volume of holders. But as the moment enjoy the price volatility and making profit, investors will not enjoy it if the market is boring. Bitcoin has lot of excitement and new people jumping in the space including high personalities and big institutions, theres a lot to pay attention these days.

If bitcoin price will continue to go up only institutions can buy it, so I think price manipulation will not be ended nor decreases given the fact that more and more companies buy shares in bitcoin in numerous amount more than I can or you can afford is alarming for me, if they want to sell their coins at cheap price and they can do it, we cannot force them not to sell their whole asset if they want. So be prepared and always read news.

In a certain way "manipulation" should be an ambiguous term in this case, it is something that was wanted and was announced to happen, large companies are investing some by simple market situation, they follow trends and are beginning to be located, because a movement like Tesla's and the subsequent previous ones must not be forgotten, they have create the chain effect in traditional investors.

manipulation is not something that can be easily erradicted as it will always happen. big money flow from institutions and angel investors will always come and its only for profit. no institution is coming to buy at a high price to hold for long. they need to buy cheap or buy huge and cashout short time. its left for people willing to hold.

Do you think is only the rich are making bitcoin price to keep on increasing from day to day, I'm thinking because of companies that are into cryptocurrency, their the one causing rapid increase in cryptocurrency especially bitcoin, and for bitcoin to be growing everyday, every week and every months, is of betterment of bitcoin users and it's also making cryptocurrency to reach to the grassroots, which whenever bitcoin increases more people knows about cryptocurrency in general, so I don't think people manipulate the price of crypto rather the increments comes based on demands via marketcap of cryptos.

Well, it will always happen. As long as we have those that holds a lot of bitcoin, there is no way that manipulation will decrease. Especially that we have these instituions now that invest in bitcoin. There is no way that they are planning to hold that for a long year.

Bitcoin price manipulation is always there and with the current high demand for Bitcoin, price manipulation should not decrease. Even though more
and more institutions are buying Bitcoin, price manipulation will definitely happen, so don't let your guard down as a victim of whales. The current
price of Bitcoin which continues to rise, could be price manipulation to make many investors buy Bitcoin at high prices. Because the price of Bitcoin is
very volatile, it is very easy to manipulate, therefore good analytical skills are needed to be able to make decisions when is the right time to buy or
sell Bitcoin.

The more whales on the market, the more the chances of bitcoin being subject to price manipulation, that's just how it is. And with the current rally of investors buying hundreds to thousands of bitcoin to "add" into their portfolios is both astonishing and concerning, considering the fact that we're at the mercy once again of a whale that can easily tick the price off in a couple of keyboard strokes and mouseclicks. Exactly, wd can't expect these institutions to be benevolent ones who act in the service of the people lmao. These guys are in the industry to earn money since they deem the conventional methods not as profitable as bitcoin or for other reasons whatsoever, but to help the people? Nah that's not it.

News from Tesla investment and their future plans to adopt bitcoin as payment method to buy Tesla products help bitcoin rising a lot. Why did you say "it did not create huge changes"?

Institutes have more strategies and good experts to manipulate the market. I believe they have better connections to news, media platforms and they can more easily to spread big fuds than personal whales.

The marketcap of bitcoin is still smaller than some Big Techs and the total marketcap of crypto market is smaller than stock market. I think it is still easily for whales, institutes to manipulate market.

Their manipulations will only be controlled if governments make law regulation and force exchanges to do Circuit breaks and margin of changes within a day of trade.

I doubt they will stop.
When something as huge as Tesla invested, others will follow.
It may not happen for a year but it will soon.
More institutional investors will come in after deep research on what they will step in.
I mean, you cannot just follow blindly for it's a huge risk you will take.
Afterward, it will be more difficult to read the market than now or last year or two years ago.

Exactly, these investors will never let their investment die. They will work on it, make some hypes, do market manipulation, that is really the possible thing to happen in the market. In fact, that EM is one example, many known names are jumping in crypto already for this will do the rally the same as what EM did in the past days.

This so-called manipulation has no way to see its end, it is already a part of crypto, and that we have lived the market having this. Besides, this is not harming us, we are making a profit from this anyway.

Its the nature of the game dude, all the rich folk talk it up, you know like Elon etc, then they manipulate the market by posting little cryptic tweets, then you find out later they didnt really invest in the stock they tweeted about but a different stock, so then the stocks they tweeted about plummet and the stocks the yactually bought increase in value, job done, rich man richer, you poor people poorer........Following, the trends on bitcoin are up down up down but slowly up overall long term, play long term not short is all I can think off.... And Im a totoal noob to this bitcoin still learning but I figured that out in 3 days flat just watching the market........and those rich guy tweets of coarse...

is announcement or news a manipulation ? no but if they want to manipulate they will act on manipulating it .

 we dont know the exact number of whales playing in this market and if how much is their wealth and if its bigger than the institutions that are investing in btc .

we cant say for now that manipulation will decrease but less and no manipulation is we all wanted because the price can grow stablely

manipulation will exist until whenever crypto is still active. but maybe the level of manipulation is starting to drop and is a little more difficult for scammers to handle. So I think that in the future the time for manipulation really goes down and that might make crypto conditions even better in the future.

I think that manipulations on the crypto market will never end. The crypt is the wild west. Nobody regulates anything here. Even the stock market is hard to regulate. Take Elon Musk, for example. He is a vicious manipulator. First I smoked some weed on the air and dumped my shares. Then, when necessary, he skillfully pumped them. For example, announcing that he bought bitcoin for $ 1.5 billion.
     Now he pumped Dogocoin, Bitcoin. But it can pump anything. Manipulations on the crypto market will never end.

As long as people can manipulate the market, they will keep on doing that, there is no reason for them to stop. All those tesla deals, grayscale deals, apple news that is yet to be confirmed, all the news you hear about this buying and that selling, everything reflects on the price and I think you will keep seeing that forever.

Do not underestimate the power of media manipulation as well, that is a real thing and people ignore that, when someone on TV comes up and says that bitcoin is a great technology and it will be adopted a lot, that influences price as well if that person is a very famous one, and same person saying it is too high now and bubble will burst, the price will be going down a lot and nobody knows if that person takes advantage of this or not.

Tesla bought bitcoin and Elon talked about how great bitcoin was, do you think that was just coincidence? He manipulated as well and made hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. As long as people can do that, they will do it.

As long as there is no regulation any huge investor can manipulate the market, even in the stock market there are insider trading and other manipulation that are exposed and the authorities have strict rules and regulation to counter that but in the cryptocurrency market there is no such rules and hence you should expect these big fund houses manipulating the market.

 Elon Musk is making some waves in the market for a long time, he was having a good time shilling for Doge for a long time and now when his company invested billions in bitcoin he knew how to make some waves and that made a huge difference in the market.

Truth is the manipulation will continue to be a part of crypto currency trading; if the manipulation did not end in a bear market; it definitely will not end in a bull market. This is why as traders we must be able to differentiate between a fomo trade and a fud trade; we must also interpret market emotions and ensure that we always buy the rumour and sell the news

In all investment markets in general and crypto markets in particular, people cannot avoid the manipulation of the price of a certain product.
There is always a group of talented and well-financed people who can manipulate the market price, I can take Elon Musk's influence on Doge coin as an example. One of his words or actions caused the strong growth of the crypto and Doge markets.
Here is Elon Musk's tweet written today about Doge coin holders, which clearly caused the price of Doge coin to fluctuate.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1361094185412100096

If big institutional 'groups' are formed and they buy crypto suddenly, then manipulation will take place. If institutions hit exchanges one by one, the growth will be stable and the manipulation curve will decrease upto some extent. It can be noticed that btc or any major cryptocurrencies that are here to stay, will not see sudden falls and if they do, they will be bought up by new institutions and will remain stable and can only grow till any institution decides to leave crypto after taking out their profits. We saw Elon adding #bitcoin to his Twitter bio and btc saw a quick pump, imagine what will happen if he tweets #boycottbitcoin

Like you said Market dumps and corporate money buys your lots so congratulation for giving the rich their power back Sooner or later Decentralization will be at their hands and it will be dumpers making that happen and then eventually you can buy BTC or 0.1 ETH because they are literally Millions So amigos got luck selling your bags and enjoy your change I will turn my 0.1 ETH to 1 million I just hope gas doesn't screw my ass over

I won't label the manipulators as scammers because its their money and they are free to do whatever they want. You must also understand that each and every one of us is a manipulator in some form because we hold any amount of coins which will then impact the market and the manipulators are just the bigger version of us.

Manipulation has indeed decreased since BTC got so popular but still there is massive amounts being stored by some rich dudes and I hope the market becomes more smooth and coins are distributed more evenly and even Elon musk in his recent tweet said "the main problem is concentration of coins".

In order for bitcoin price manipulation to end, we need one entity not being able to change it too much, which requires very high price and a very high volume as well. Right now, tesla can come in and buy another billion dollars worth of bitcoin and could manipulate the price, and that would be quite possible for them to do at the current stage. However one day when bitcoin price is 200k+ and volume is 50x times higher than the current volume, one billion dollars would be nothing for bitcoin and it wouldn't change too much.

The only way to prevent manipulation is to be able to eat up all the manipulation attempts and not move at all, which takes a very long time for bitcoin to reach as of right now, but I believe 100% that it will one day happen, so we should not be really looking desperate just yet.

Manipulation I think will get worse since the big players are going to come in. They don't just have Trillions of dollars to buy coins, they could literally just buy a ton of coins and will keep manipulating till they accumulate more. But we may not be bothered especially because we already got a ton of profit when they buy.

Manipulation will be difficult when there will be more whales coming, the worse is that they mastered how to do it in the market where they're originally from.

I tend to agree if 4-5 big institution companies who adopted Bitcoin will do the same selling their Bitcoin at the same time, it could have an effect on the market price that will surely have a sudden drop price.  But if only one company will sell their Bitcoin holding, it might we didn't feel the possible pain in the market.

However, manipulation was always there in the market since then, but I think for now we need cooperation for each other to build a big community that using Bitcoin.  If everyone will use Bitcoin for example for payment or keeping this as a valuable asset, for sure the demand and supply will always matter with the price circulation which is the manipulation won't really work.

I don't think so, the price went so amazing right now and everybody really wanted to dig in on cryptocurrency. In fact many friends of mine wanted to know everything in digital currency, but I don't bother sharing them the entire story of it. They don't know how bloody when it comes to manipulation, so I must take it personally and move on then enjoy how crypto market will be pushed through the waves.

Manipulation exists in all sorts of speculative assets otherwise the market would not move. The point is that those who are trading for long have understood how this system works. If you basic knowledge and understanding of a project and its use cases is good you should be able to decide whether you can keep it for long term or short term.

Once you have the faith in that asset, like bitcoin you can get the drive to buy it when the market falls = avoid FUD and sell at the pump = profit the FOMO but not buy it.

Therefore practice to understand the market emotions and how you can use them. Remember that whales only start the manipulation but it is driven by smaller fries and then whales feed on that.

price manipulation will continue as long as they (whales) want to continue to profit. When whales want to get cheap prices they spread FUD so that bitcoin prices go down and of course all altcoins will also go down and this is an opportunity for whales manipulators to buy cheaply. After buying enough they will give you positive news. it's a Fundamental game that will continue to do. Very strong fundamentals but also balanced with technical analysis.
and some speculations have also sprung up about the future price and the like.

Bitcoin is the best and most expensive cryptocurrency.  Bitcoin's popularity and price is increasing day by day, but the number of its users is also increasing day by day.  There are many big whales to increase the price of Bitcoin.  Those who have held Bitcoin for long term. Tesla company has invested in Bitcoin and as a result Bitcoin price has changed.  However, cryptocurrency is highly volatile currency so its price will always be volatile.  However, many large companies will hold Bitcoin for a few years and sell it when they get good profits.

Manipulation "exists" in the sense that it is not allowed to do publicly and like a crazy person, you end up doing it like you pay the media people to promote something or downplay something etc etc, like you do it secretly and you do not do it like crazy. For example in crypto, you could go up on twitter (or any other place that people can see you) and say that you will buy a billion dollars worth of bitcoin in a week and nobody will do anything about it, and if you are really rich and super known, that will still not be a problem, it is still a fine thing.

At the end of the day, manipulation is done in everything but nothing is as relaxed as bitcoin and crypto world, you could literally play with money in front of people's eyes here and ruin or increase a whole coin and nothing will happen to you, that type of freedom to manipulate doesn't exist anywhere else.

Very well said because in a bear market we expect the big holders to release some coins to the market which should have happened last year in March when the market collapsed like never before also aided by the corona virus making it even more dreadful and if someone managed to hold their coins during that time, I do not expect them to sell off now during such good and positive times.

Rightly said, but I will not be too discouraged if they are buying now because the price is high and even the biggest groups cannot buy too much and instead they are just bringing more solidity. It would be sad had they been buying huge amounts when price was low and market was bearish.

Growing in market cap doesn't necessarily means manipulation of price will decrease soon, like for example the recent elon musk who people consider as the saviour of modern world making a fuss regarding crypto, as much as I'm happy enough that elon really bring the price of bitcoin up, I must say that these kind of things look kinda like manipulation.
If by some tweet from a rich influental people alone could decide whether the market gonna be bearish or bullrun the crypto market as a whole isn't really manipulation free doesn't matter how much the market cap has been growing since the manipulator doesn't target the market cap and using their resource to manipulate it but the manipulator affect psychology of the people to make them behave as they like.

Price manipulation will always be there, it will not just go away.

Bitcoin's price is based on demand and supply, and with a lot of people holding a huge chunk out of that supply, there will always be manipulation. That is why a lot of people are getting scared of what these corporations will do with their huge investments in bitcoin as it can affect the price hugely in the near future. Although we know that they can't manipulate it fully and there are a lot of people that would take that dump as an opportunity.

Elon musk we can consider him as one of the whales am I right. Those whales were the one's behind the manipulations. As I expected some of the big/small investors was waiting for the price roll back.

But I don't think that there is some bad news that could affect the price go down. The popularity of the rumored richest man on earth Elon musk, would still stand against in any bad news.

Yeah, It can be more often to happens especially when many rich people come and join the crypto community. It sounds like we don't see a decrease in manipulation but instead, we saw it more. We can see how Elon manipulates the market and also the minds of others, that seem to happy seeing the price goes high. But above all, there is one thing I have to worried about, and what if these people will control the market and let everything handful to them. That could be the worse thing ever.

I doesn't mind when people like Elon influence the price, they are public figure and everyone sees that. Manipulating the price from the shade is what I don't like and I really believe that with more money in crypto that would be harder to do since it would need more money to do so.

We can't say that the price "manipulation" will be gone soon, but yeah, the more people use bitcoin, the less it will be manipulated. This is because eventually all the coins will be spread among people, hence lower chance of manipulating since the number of "whales" also starts to increase. I guess as more whales enter the market, the risk of manipulation increases, hence discouraging manipulators (because whales will be able to easily take advantage of manipulators).
You are kidding right?

We can't say the manipulation decreased when Elon Musk can manipulate the market by simply adding the word Bitcoin into his Twitter Bio, is this new form of manipulation which doesn't need money just need the power?

It will increase more as there are more and more people coming in to invest in the market

I don't know why you don't bother sharing about crypto to your friends because from what I can understand although manipulation exists in the market and will exist as long as the market itself exists, there is not as much manipulation in the Bitcoin market and imagine Bitcoins being held by rich guys like Michael Saylor and richest guy Elon musk so it ain't that easy to manipulate the market now days.

Also do you think manipulation does not happen in stock market? It does happen there too and more than what one might imagine. Have you recently seen the news about the GameStop short squeeze? It was all about the market manipulation only.

It may be there at all times but it could be too much or very little depending on situations. Maybe bitcoin manipulation is all time high right now and companies are making news about how bitcoin is awesome and buying bitcoins right now all because they are getting ready for crashing it and making money that way?

They would be making money by the fact that if you say "x company bought 1 billion dollars of bitcoin" the price will not only go up from their purchase but others will flock to bitcoin and buy a lot just because that company bought bitcoin as well.

At the end of the day they are pumping it with their money and also with help of media. They are making money just from that and that is the easy part, if we put into shorting futures into play we could have rich companies making even more money from crashing the price. Long story short is it really at a dangerous manipulation level or not? We do not know but there is always a possibility. We just need "little" manipulation if there needs to be one.