1- Whales control big percentage of the 21 M Bitcoin
2-they can manipulate the price
I did not see proof of the existence of these whales and of these manipulations, but if they manipulate is because the market is still very small, eventually the market will be very large it will be very difficult to be manipulated
3- they did created new coin each time they disagree LTC BCH BITCOIN GOLD ...etc
I agree with you, these hard forks are meaningless and confuse people, I see no reason for people to be creating those hard forks. today has bitcoin cash, bitcoin Diamond, bitcoin gold, bitcoin private, we have strange altcoins like jesus coin... dude, this is all sad
4- if you have a bitcoin you will not used as a money you will always want to keep either to sell it higher price or waiting till it reach you buying price to recover your loss
But that's because we're still to depends of regulations to make it possible to use bitcoin in the real world without having problems with governments, banks, Visa and mastercard.
1-exchanges
How could you buy bitcoin without KYC? that would not be possible
3- accept bitcoin as a payment for your service
who will pay you with his BTC now if he is expecting it to reach new high higher than $19K
4- ask some one who own BTC to sell you ( people charge 20% more than the current price)
5- SCAM the people
ask them to buy you new coin by BTC only and disappear
truth
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