Who controls the market?

[el kaka22]

Remember, this whole thing about crypto is largely decentralized, thus, there is no single authoritative body in control of the crypto market. Although there are few centralized platforms among crypto, the market is largely influenced by the efforts and influence of the users of crypto. How well sellers and buyers treat the coins on the market affect the performance of the market.

Regular people like you and me control the market. Yeah there are whales but that decentralization means. If you let the governments of the world regulate bitcoin and control the whales so they do not decide where the market should go than you are also trying to forbid the market to be truly free. If you regulate whales and tell them they can't run the market however they want that is centralized currency.

Let the whales do whatever they want, let the whales make profits and gains and get rich. That allows us to be part of this movement where eventually the control is in our hands and they can't profit without taking risks.

[bittraffic]

We may not prove someone is controlling the market but there are just big finance corporations which they know how markets work and they can influence others to panic or buy not just through the price but also to the news coming out in the media. WE are manipulated too, now people believe there should be SEC to protect investors while we don't need that years ago. With SEC, government will come in which may not be good for the crypto.

[vv181]

Supply and demand should rule any markets neither decentralized nor centralized. But in this decentralized cryptocurrencies spaces, whales have a significant contribution in the market movements, I believe they aren't doing it on their own but with other whales. It makes the market manipulation with combined whales is possible.

[Ngewex Yuk]

It has been stated from the outset that cryptocurrencies bring a new concept of decentralization, of course this makes us aware that all prices that occur due to stock and needs, so that we can control are those who have stock and who need it.

[nazaididuan1]

The market for cryptocurrencies is theoretically possible to manipulate!
But the actual operation is very difficult, which requires a lot of money! But people or organizations with huge funds don't believe in cryptocurrencies, they are more willing to invest in the stock market!

[zeingrind777]

Remember, this whole thing about crypto is largely decentralized, thus, there is no single authoritative body in control of the crypto market. Although there are few centralized platforms among crypto, the market is largely influenced by the efforts and influence of the users of crypto. How well sellers and buyers treat the coins on the market affect the performance of the market.

Yes, those who control the crypto market are crypto users themselves. price increases and decreases are determined by user demand in the crypto market

[yusupjatigumilar]

actually no one controls the market price, the market goes according to our own activities as the market leader, the price moves based on the amount of supply and demand that keeps changing and moving every time

[sinkfish]

its hard to know who exactly who controlling the market. or rather no ones actually cares about the who is controlling, as long it promise profit for every trade made.

[stompix]

Most of the people don't care if a currency is decentralized or not and don't what it means too. They are just interested to make profits, no matter how. They jump on the new flower of the month, invest some cash and sit down until the flower blooms.
How it works, or what it is exactly doesn't matter to them

Oh, no. Most people care about it, that's the reason why there are some new coins created and created, but in reality everyone knows that everything good (in this situation - decentralyzed coin, it's good) gets abused because people are very greedy or can't just shut up.
On another hand, I agree you.

Nope, the majority doesn't give a damn or is too stupid to really comprehend the notion, otherwise, you would not see Ripple or EOS being a top coin or ICO waves one after the other.
The average "investor" doesn't have a clue what all those really mean, they only care about how much people are talking about it and how much $ the "dev team" is lying promising in returns.

Be serious, look at the average poster here on bitcointalk...[ANN][ICO]HoweyCoins: the only BitcoinTalk-endorsed ICO - GUARANTEED PROFIT

[SunJAB]

The market is quite broad and no one can control the market. In my opinion, we should not care and invest in penny stocks for a long time, everything will come to us well.

[ylnar123]

Remember, this whole thing about crypto is largely decentralized, thus, there is no single authoritative body in control of the crypto market. Although there are few centralized platforms among crypto, the market is largely influenced by the efforts and influence of the users of crypto. How well sellers and buyers treat the coins on the market affect the performance of the market.

Of course, there is no one controlling the market. But when you say if some coins are controlled by some people, I would say yes because there are coins which is traded at a centralized exchange where in some information we're disclosed and a third party is in the business.

[andriw]

Market performance is determined by the influence of the news about the growth and development of cryptocurrency itself, also influenced by trader's fear of loss or ambition to always profit, because when the chart changes direction then the trader responds quickly, even though it may not be the real trend, it could be just a temporary trend to shape the actual trend.

[buje micin]

i think the only ones who can control the market are big traders, they spread the FUD and make big dumps, after that they buy more and hold it to create big profits

[Ridwan Fauzi]

Remember, this whole thing about crypto is largely decentralized, thus, there is no single authoritative body in control of the crypto market. Although there are few centralized platforms among crypto, the market is largely influenced by the efforts and influence of the users of crypto. How well sellers and buyers treat the coins on the market affect the performance of the market.

Crypto's market is controlled pure by users who did bought and sold, but every user has a different fund when he invests his money on it, the difference is that when someone has a large fund, their activities will affect the price movement, usually (just my thought) did by some company, in contrast to an investor who spends little money to invest, their activities will only give a little affect. There are several factors that make every investor sell or buy and one of the biggest factors is regulation of each country or the regulation of several companies who dicides between accept or ban cryptocurrency.

[33bitcoin]

I would say BitMex has become one of the deciding factors on where the market is heading.  There is a lot of manipulation on that exchange because of the high leverage that can be used for short and long positions.

It's easy for whales to cause short pump and dumps but over the long term I don't think anyone has a strong enough effect on the market to bring prices down.

[KirunBarber]

all this time I know that market movements are influenced by traders, especially the biggest coin holders who are able to control the market. Is it true? basically I don't know yet.

[Taki]

Most of the people don't care if a currency is decentralized or not and don't what it means too. They are just interested to make profits, no matter how. They jump on the new flower of the month, invest some cash and sit down until the flower blooms.
How it works, or what it is exactly doesn't matter to them

Thats right. That's why bitcoin oftenly compared with a ponzy scheme. People just invest their money, in some cases their last money, into a subject they do not much about. This is the rase for fast and easy money without doing an effort.

[paparexon0414]

Well this is also my question in mind. Some says no one can control the market because its decentralized. But as i continue to read some post and articles regarding the world of crytos, i just realize the possibility that there are some people really manipulating the market. Im not 100% sure if its true but these so called "whales" have the money to control the value of this cryptos.  And in the end the small time holders is the one suffering. Im stating only my opinion not a fact.

[Xphenosis]

In ECONOMICS market refers to people and who owns goods or services and whereas I guess it will be the same in crypto since it involves economics. Those who own huge amount of goods are often most are the manipulative just like owning millions of dollars worth of crypto coins. We can refer those who are the WHALES in the crypto industry.

[boled]

to be honest I am also curious, is it true that the 100% market is in the hands of the user, or maybe the developer is playing a role. if there is a very far difference between one market and another, I believe this is because of the role of the user. almost every market around the world moves simultaneously. when the price rises, then all prices throughout the market also go up, if there is a dump, it happens throughout the market.