The problem is Wallstreet buying Bitcoin OFF EXCHANGES so their giant purchases dont influence Price.
That's not true. When OTC demand is strong, all the OTC supply gets eaten up. Then demand spills onto exchanges because there is nowhere else to accumulate.
Coinbase published a case study for their Prime broker service, with Microstrategy as the subject. As they point out:
Individual exchanges do not have sufficient liquidity to service large, institutional-sized orders. Coinbase’s smart order router solves this problem by aggregating liquidity from multiple venues (exchanges and market makers) and routing orders algorithmically to find the best all-in prices possible.
https://primebroker.coinbase.com/content/dam/prime/downloads/pdfs/Coinbase-Institutional-MicroStrategy-Case-Study-Dec-2020.pdfI assume Grayscale's buys have the same effect. At certain times throughout the week you can see fairly obvious TWAP algorithmic buying activity on Coinbase. When I see it I usually think, "Grayscale's buying again!"
You are sort of right, but sort of wrong as well. It does pour into regular exchanges obviously but it is a slow type of deal and not something sudden, which does change the market maybe a bit but not a lot, because these kinds of amounts done slowly doesn't really change too much.
Think about it this way, grayscale collected over 500k bitcoins, but did that like 7k per week or something, and that is why I think it matters, because 7k per week on OTC is nothing, and even if it spills over to regular exchanges that would be what? 2k spilled over? You can collect 2k from 5 different exchanges with 400 bitcoins and that would not be even felt.
So long story short in a market where 20 billion dollar volume happens everyday, having hundreds of millions of dollars per week is nothing. Does it affect us? Sure it does, it removes money from the market and makes bitcoin scarce which is the real great part about it, but they do not change it in a day, it is a long term benefit.