If Whale hoards bitcoin, will the market run out of BTC to buy?

[kidbounty]

literally, yes. but the market is not that simple. there will always be people who want to sell when something is very scarce. they will not stand still to see the big profit. that's why even though in the end the amount in circulation decreased a lot, because many were hoarding. btc will not disappear from the market. btc will always be there to trade.

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[marilynmanson21]

because the stock of bitcoin is limited, and turnover must exist because of demand, bitcoin will not stop spinning, which is higher if there is a lot of demand, here the role of the whale is to determine the price at which they will release their bitcoin, so it's natural for them to hoard their bitcoin to get profit

[Bitstar_coin]

I think it can only make it to be more scarce and perhaps affect the price but there will always be some few people who will sell assuming the majority are willing to hold, even though btc is just 21 million supply in total,  it hasn't stop some whales to influence the market with the amount of btc they hold because the number of btc holders is very low compare to the supply,  let's assume 21 million people hold btc respectively, it won't be easy for one person to dump the price so easily,  but this has not been the case yet, maybe in the near future it will be.

[cotton ball]

if they buy all the bitcoins then they hoard bitcoins for a very long time, I don't think we are the problem, but the problem, because the market is not moving, and they can't open another business, because all their wealth is buried there. .

[glendall]

there are no whales who don't sell their bitcoins when the specified price is reached, the turnaround time and the market price will always be there every minute so bitcoins will always be trading and won't stop unless the market you are aiming for / you are using is repairing the server

[Wakate]

Bitcoin is limited in quantity. News like so and so billionaire or so and so company bought 100,000 BTCs is now commonplace due to the dip. Will there be a time when there will be no bitcoin to buy. If so then what will happen then?

The Whales that op thinks are holding Bitcoin are not really holding it the way we thinks. There is a certain volume of Bitcoin that needs to be transact inside a pool before the price of Bitcoin must move. Buying and selling of Bitcoin occurs every seconds which triggers both buying and selling of pools to bring about movement in the market.

The cryptocurrency market has several ways of balancing the rate of buying and selling. Even the Whales are not just holding there Bitcoins but also trading it to make exorbitant profits. The major aims of the whales is to accumulate Bitcoin for easy for easy profits when put in trading.

[dothebeats]

And they will have the whole market only to themselves, rendering their coins useless since they can only buy and sell stuff with each other and other parties who want to enter the market with cash will be unable to do so. Coins will never run out in the market as these entities (whales) will be forced to sell coins at some point in time in order to have funds for some other ventures they may have.

[nurilham]

Either the price will skyrocket or it will dump heavily because the market believes the asset is no longer has any value.

Yep, the possibility will be pumping the price or making the price freefall. With very rare Bitcoin in the market, people will be not interested anymore to invest or trade Bitcoin. To make crypto market is healthy, should be always a sufficient number of Bitcoin to trade. When the circulating supply becomes worse, I guess the market can't survive properly.

[MKings]

Whales just want to make money, they have no reason to keep hoarding Bitcoin. The big change in the price of Bitcoin is due to the operation of whales. If they want to make a profit, then they have to sell or buy.

[Sanugarid]

Bitcoin is limited in quantity. News like so and so billionaire or so and so company bought 100,000 BTCs is now commonplace due to the dip. Will there be a time when there will be no bitcoin to buy. If so then what will happen then?

They were hoarding huge numbers of BTC for a reason and that is to earn profits. Whales who hold the majority of BTC in circulation will eventually sell their holdings of BTC but not 100% of it to take profit because it's all about money. So I doubt that no one will sell their BTC when the price is so high and no one will choose to hold when the opportunity to earn more than they invest is in front of them. What will happened would be people like them will sell their BTC at peak price and traders will follow.

[ChiBitCTy]

I don't see there ever being a chance where bitcoin becomes impossible to find or buy.  Bitcoin was set up so that you could break it down to a tiny fraction of a coin and I believe that is exactly the kind of thing that will keep bitcoin available to the masses regardless of how many whales/billionaires try and "corner the market" so to speak. 

[Artemis3]

Bitcoin is limited in quantity. News like so and so billionaire or so and so company bought 100,000 BTCs is now commonplace due to the dip. Will there be a time when there will be no bitcoin to buy. If so then what will happen then?

Every time you buy, the market price goes up. No matter how rich you are, there is no such thing a s a single order suddenly getting all the available coins instantly.

Therefore, the whale will always run out of funds because of their own action. So no, this cannot happen, even if they band together and try, they simply cannot buy all the remaining bitcoins. Besides, most bitcoins are being kept as savings ("hodl"), only a minor amount is in the market.

This is also the same reason why printing money to buy all bitcoin is not possible, it will simply crash whatever fiat is used for that.

I hope you now understand one of the reasons bitcoin is so valuable to their holders...

[mrongoz_imut]

even though the whales hoard bitcoins, I'm sure the market won't run out of bitcoins,, because no matter how long they try to hoard bitcoins, I'm pretty sure they will resell it, it's impossible for whales to hoard bitcoins for a long time, because they also need a lot of money , to manage other businesses..

[excro]

It would be almost impossible for whales to hoard all the Bitcoins. As of now, the last Bitcoins will be generated in 2140, which means Bitcoin will have evolved incredibly and even now, groups are trying to be the richest Bitcoin holders, but they are extremely far from holding too much for others to have none.

[Kittygalore]

They will have to starve and they will not be making a lot of money if they plan to hoard bitcoin and I don't think that whales are thinking the same so I don't think that not all of them will be hoarding plus it's an impossible task, there's only so much bitcoin they can buy.

[geegaw]

even though the whales hoard bitcoins, I'm sure the market won't run out of bitcoins,, because no matter how long they try to hoard bitcoins, I'm pretty sure they will resell it, it's impossible for whales to hoard bitcoins for a long time, because they also need a lot of money , to manage other businesses..

Yes, hoarding is just a way to wait for demand to increase and once the demand is in line with their predictions, we will be the potential customers as well as the audience they turn to consulting and selling their bitcoin, which will certainly be very expensive. Besides, bitcoin is not the only player in the crypto market, other crypto assets also need capital and need buyers, whales also love to bathe in these rivers when in the great ocean, have too many companions while in small rivers they are the rulers of an area and have ultimate powers

[irsykes]

Bitcoin is limited in quantity. News like so and so billionaire or so and so company bought 100,000 BTCs is now commonplace due to the dip. Will there be a time when there will be no bitcoin to buy. If so then what will happen then?

In case it is really happen, maybe yes, because there are no people who sell it anymore and 1 wallet is the holder. But we only imagine if it is really happen, because bitcoin is not only from market, miner and any other place that use bitcoin will made it really hard to be controlled by 1 person or maybe company. That is why bitcoin is decentralized because it is uncontrollable.

[ropyu1978]

if whales hoard bitcoins, I'm sure they won't lose bitcoins to buy, because no whales dare to hoard bitcoins for a long time, they will definitely sell back the bitcoins they hoard, because they also have other businesses, which require a lot of money, so we don't have to panic, even if they hoard bitcoin, I'm sure they won't keep it for a long time..

[ethereumhunter]

if whales hoard bitcoins, I'm sure they won't lose bitcoins to buy, because no whales dare to hoard bitcoins for a long time, they will definitely sell back the bitcoins they hoard, because they also have other businesses, which require a lot of money, so we don't have to panic, even if they hoard bitcoin, I'm sure they won't keep it for a long time..

If that whales have a lot of bitcoin and have other businesses, they will not sell their bitcoin if they do not want to sell it. Maybe they will sell their bitcoin when the price increase more than $100,000 or something like that so they can enjoy their big profit by celebrating with their friends. The whales always know what they will do with their bitcoin and hoard bitcoin for a long time.

[taufik123]

Whales have their own strategies, usually they are also coordinated and manipulative to make other traders mentally down. Whales will not always hoard bitcoin, they will sell it when they get a lot of profit and are on target.
Bitcoin still has a stockpile that has not yet been mined. Some bitcoins that whales are hoarding and can't open are likely to be buried forever.