Do you think there is institutional manipulation of the Bitcoin price?

[syaripudin]

I think not from any institution that can affect bitcoin prices because bitcoin is a decentralized currency so no one can control. and I think this is purely from market demand and some things that affect the rise and fall of bitcoin prices one of them is a factor of news that is addressed in bitcoin.

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[PG13]

I think those investors that has many bitcoin can manipulate the price but it's not enough to lower the price at this level. This situation is a results of the massive selling of bitcoin due to some negative news about the crypto. I hope that some good news will follow to shift back the situation and get enough momentum to make a good rally.

[manfredmann]

IT could also mean that there is an institutional manipulation of bitcoin market price. As we all know that in an investment like this it could be easily to take an advantage among others with. Like for example that is being stated above that US government has done some regulations on bitcoin then probably in my opinion that US could be one of an institutional organization secretly manipulating bitcoin market price and they are just making cover ups that they do not want just like we use to say big whales doing their normal activity and that is manipulating bitcoin market price.

[kalawang]

We have seen reports lately that the US Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into alleged price manipulation of

Bitcoin and other digital currencies. We have seen for months now that the Bitcoin price cannot get momentum and as soon

as there are positive signs that it is recovering, then it drops down again. In many of these instances there are no negative

news that would have triggered that downward spiral. There are also no Alt coins with significant growth during these times,

 for us to say that these Alt coins are the trigger behind this. The only logical conclusion for this is that someone or a group of

people are "killing" the correction phase of the Bitcoin price. 

Do you think there are some sinister agenda behind this or is this just Bitcoin whales doing their normal thing?   

I do not a new cryptocurrency that you can use to theirs, the right direction. I believe the market will be great currency someday, and technology. I believe in mythical man who has the market it to be wise to become one who has a new cryptocurrency. I even its own right now is to study the future

[Erganadine2728]

There may be manipulation of bitcoin holders and markets.

 But it must be followed up not speaking because there is no fire if there is no smoke nothing is impossible only bitcoin holders and the market knows it.
They are planning something we do not know just wait

[skaynet]

I think the bitcoin decline is because there is so much bad news that bitcoin so bitcoin drops very sharply

[JerryJam]

I think that no state institution can manipulate the market with crypto currency. The price is regulated by the market. Manipulations certainly exist. And they can make speculators. They can artificially create an agiotage and panic or spread untrue information that discredits the crypto currency.

[okala]

Cryptocurrencies with a large market capitalization of around $300,000,000,000  is not free from institutional manipulations.  However,  as humans been we need to understand that we are living in a corrupted world and there is no way we would not have people and institutions that will not manipulating the market.

[kalawang]

We have seen reports lately that the US Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into alleged price manipulation of

Bitcoin and other digital currencies. We have seen for months now that the Bitcoin price cannot get momentum and as soon

as there are positive signs that it is recovering, then it drops down again. In many of these instances there are no negative

news that would have triggered that downward spiral. There are also no Alt coins with significant growth during these times,

 for us to say that these Alt coins are the trigger behind this. The only logical conclusion for this is that someone or a group of

people are "killing" the correction phase of the Bitcoin price. 

Do you think there are some sinister agenda behind this or is this just Bitcoin whales doing their normal thing?   

The first is a start. The real world is to invest in this era of cryptocurrency and it will be a good news for you. Cause I don't have to invest it you are respectable in this era in cryptocurrency that they belong to invest, right, and other cryptocurrency and technology, a new comment. Cause bitcoin

[Kprawn]

It looks like the majority consensus around here is that there is some kind of manipulation in the market. It may or may not

be institutional manipulation, but the signs are definitely there. I hope someone can identify the source of this manipulation

and the goal behind this. {Malicious or Profit} Let's see if the SEC's investigation will bear some fruit, so that we can go

forward with this experiment.

[weblouartisan]

We have seen reports lately that the US Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into alleged price manipulation of

Bitcoin and other digital currencies. We have seen for months now that the Bitcoin price cannot get momentum and as soon

as there are positive signs that it is recovering, then it drops down again. In many of these instances there are no negative

news that would have triggered that downward spiral. There are also no Alt coins with significant growth during these times,

 for us to say that these Alt coins are the trigger behind this. The only logical conclusion for this is that someone or a group of

people are "killing" the correction phase of the Bitcoin price. 

Do you think there are some sinister agenda behind this or is this just Bitcoin whales doing their normal thing?   

In my own opinion, the only reason for the price of cryptocurrency to be manipulated is through hackers just like the news last few months ago when some koreans try to manipulate the market price by hacking.

[audaciousbeing]

When something linger too long in thought, it then becomes the truth that an individual believes in. The issue of price manipulation didn't start today. What we are seeing now is giving credence to the various conspiracies of "whales" that have been spread in the market several times. For me, I try to stay objective to issues and so far there is no irrefutable evidence to show that this manipulation is happening, I rather not force myself to believe in conjectures. Thankfully, investigations have been launched and we just have to wait for the report, review it then pick a side based on that.

[saulzaents]

bitcoin, with extreme volatility, as everyone knows. we see that the large price fluctuations of the crypto money market with the largest capitalized crypto are now almost regular. this leads to quite a negative market pressure. the first question that needs to be asked as to why this price fluctuation is being investigated is, in fact, whether bitcoin is manipulated in price. we can not know without seeing such an action. So it is not easy to say for sure that bitcoin manipulation is done.

[BitcoinMarketer39]

We have seen reports lately that the US Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into alleged price manipulation of

Bitcoin and other digital currencies. We have seen for months now that the Bitcoin price cannot get momentum and as soon

as there are positive signs that it is recovering, then it drops down again. In many of these instances there are no negative

news that would have triggered that downward spiral. There are also no Alt coins with significant growth during these times,

 for us to say that these Alt coins are the trigger behind this. The only logical conclusion for this is that someone or a group of

people are "killing" the correction phase of the Bitcoin price. 

Do you think there are some sinister agenda behind this or is this just Bitcoin whales doing their normal thing?   

As what i have read about government plans, there are countries who will be creating some laws toward cryptocurrency investors but still the prices will not be manipulated by the government.

[Sadlife]

Digital currencies price is not a fixed amount that it's original price is 20k dollars we all know that crypto currencies are very volatile that's why it quickly go down after it surge. But this price crashes has been very suspicious lately, i also read an article about price manipulation it's said that they're making fake volume trading to start an FUD and the recent hack in a korean exchange reportedly that there was 30 mil stolen but the total market loss of crypto was around i think 700 mil, cant really remember the exact numbers.

[Ritaaa]

I've always made decisions based off greater sentiment, bitcoin is getting more and more popular. "The difference" this time over previous times is that instead of just asking about it and going "oh yeah that sounds cool", they're actually buying a small amount and trying it out. All their mates see them make a gain and want in, that drives the price, I know four people who last year were telling me bitcoin is stupid but are now holding BTC LTC and ETH. Obviously this drives the price up.

Is there a greater chance that this is what's happening (0bviously combined with some institutional buying) or, is it more likely that there is a global conspiracy of bankers who want to destroy bitcoin?

And if there is a global conspiracy, what is the solution? Sell all our bitcoin? To my mind the answer, as always, just fucking HODL. see where bitcoin is three years from now.

[yndye]

bitcoin, with extreme volatility, as everyone knows. we see that the large price fluctuations of the crypto money market with the largest capitalized crypto are now almost regular. this leads to quite a negative market pressure. the first question that needs to be asked as to why this price fluctuation is being investigated is, in fact, whether bitcoin is manipulated in price. we can not know without seeing such an action. So it is not easy to say for sure that bitcoin manipulation is done.

This issue has been tackled a lot of times of whether the price is manipulated or not and now there is already a formal investigation going on. We have yet to see what would be their decision. As or me, I believe there are whales in the market pumping and dumping the market all the time. How can someone explain then those buy and sell order of thousand of bitcoin from time to time. There are times though when it is a group of traders that has the same price order that's why it looks like a single entity that is doing it.

[brotherwood12]

on the theory , the market price manipulation is possible to do , but in the fact so hard to make it happens , to manipulate the price (especially bitcoin  price )you need large people with huge capital , and make them has one purpose .

[naidray]

That is the problem with unregulated and decentralized market. It couod be easily manipulated. Then again, i. Think it's more like the sudden increase in investors and a huge back lash from all of it. It's more like a normal market tremd and not like a clock work manipulation. Then again, I'm new to this so take it with a grain of salt.

Fine, it is something we will just have to get used to and most especially an unregulated and decentralized market that is driven more by speculation than real life usage. Until we start getting to see real life usage as a currency with a lot of people using it for transaction globally and seeing the real need for it, this is something that we would keep seeing.

Now, everyone just wants to get rich overnight and that makes it very easy for bigger investors to drive and stir up some emotion in the market by some spike manipulation or downward ones to shake out weak hands, but it is just one of those things.

[nabinkhadka]

There was , there is and there will always be institutional manipulation of Bitcoin prices. because bitcoins are in very limited hands. in my opinion Mining pools , exchanges , and big investors are beside bitcoin manipulation.