Institutional investors are buying Bitcoin's future... How do we stop this?

[chaoscoinz]

There's nothing anyone can do to possibly stop it. How does one stop money exactly? I feel your sentiment though. When the institutional investors join in and come flooding with cash,  the price might start to fluctuate violently. If those same investors where to pull out the same way in which they came pouring in, there would be a massive move on the markets every time. Look back at what happened the other day when the price had sharply fallen, I'm not an expert, but big money does mean bigger trouble in this instance.

[bryant.coleman]

There's nothing anyone can do to possibly stop it. How does one stop money exactly? I feel your sentiment though. When the institutional investors join in and come flooding with cash,  the price might start to fluctuate violently. If those same investors where to pull out the same way in which they came pouring in, there would be a massive move on the markets every time. Look back at what happened the other day when the price had sharply fallen, I'm not an expert, but big money does mean bigger trouble in this instance.

I don't agree with your statements. So you are saying that the volatility was lower when the institutional investment was not there. It is simply not true. Back in 2015 and 2016, there were incidents in which the prices fluctuated by as much as 30% or 40% in a single day. Therefore I would argue that the institutions have lowered the volatility levels. BTW, why should long-term investors worry about price volatility? Temporary fluctuations should not impact them.

[Twentyonepaylots]

I'm actually all for both the advancement of bitcoin as an asset and as a currency as well. So institutions purchasing huge amounts of bitcoin both gladden me and at the same time scares me as well. But we can't really do much about it since bitcoin is available for everyone, and that includes the 1% of the society, what we could just hope for right now is that we catch up rather quickly so they can't control the market. And invite more small-time investors to outnumber their purchased assets, doesn't matter whether we run out of bitcoins or not.

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Maybe we should not worry because it is all speculation.  Whatever their plan, maybe they will not own it for a long time to the point that it is no longer in use.  They will still use that no matter what happens just by integrating their system or platform.  As far as I know, no one can control the market because even if they collect all the Bitcoin it will not stop circulating until it is all mined.

[oHnK]

Maybe we should not worry because it is all speculation.  Whatever their plan, maybe they will not own it for a long time to the point that it is no longer in use.  They will still use that no matter what happens just by integrating their system or platform.  As far as I know, no one can control the market because even if they collect all the Bitcoin it will not stop circulating until it is all mined.

Right now I see that what is more worrying are speculators than investors who buy a lot of coins.  Because the price of BTC dropped there was also the involvement of speculators, and what saved yesterday's price were investors too.  OP may lack detail seeing every aspect.  Speculators who should be aware of their decisions that sometimes panic the market.