But no one was complaining when these same whales played together to make Bitcoin price go up, right?
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Did they? It's an interesting question, because from my perspective, what they actually did was they made the price go down by selling from their stash when they saw the price was high enough. The thing is that to make the price go up you have to buy crypto with fiat, but they don't have much of fiat, they have mostly crypto, right? Why would they buy even more crypto, which they already have in big amounts, with fiat, which is what they really want to have? I think the price was rising not because of manipulations, but rather because of natural demand from the new adopters, and then it went down because of the whales' selling.