Now investors with large wallets control the price of bitcoin.
And to try to increase the value of other coins, it is necessary to invest a lot of money.
And since most investments in cryptocurrencies are small, ordinary users can not control the price of the cryptocurrency.
The media is just an extra opportunity for money whales to capitalize on impatient investors.
* This is the biggest myth on this market. There are a lot of huge wallets which have no movement for a long time, they can not affect Bitcoin's price. Now, we can't say the big wallets have too much control. In order for us to say that, those wallets must take action. In addition, most of the big wallets belong to exchanges. The balance in those wallets belongs to tens of thousands of people. maybe much more...
* It depends on volume. Some altcoins can gain value easily. Without no money. Even EVX (which has a lot of volume) has gained so much value sometimes.