Your explanation was quite good and accurate. I would only add that now that it's possible to short bitcoin with futures, these whales have an even greater incentive to lower the bitcoin price. They will be able to get a lot of cash from their short on bitcoin, and they will be able to buy back bitcoin at a lower price after the dump, and then go long on bitcoin and manipulate it's price to go up. They know all the fud that lives through this market, and how is it is to generate panic selling and then fomo. And you are right, the only way we ca fight this, is to hold our coins and do not participate in their money games. This will be easy to do, once real adoption starts happening. Only then, they wont be able to ride the markets as if they were their private playground.
Yes exactly, with the shorting of futures. Being a bitcoin whale has become even more enjoyable..