Topic: Is crypto industry manipulated? How bad is it? (Read 916 times)

It's hard to assume whether there's reality inside but with how the market is showing us the volatility can be done by big players who's holding huge amount of coins then take advantage in every chances that they've had, we see manipulations when there's something unusual things inside the market of your supposed supported project.

It could be true, but once again, we don't have the right information, and we could only see what is going on the market. But I feel that the manipulated is running in many exchanges, but I don't think that the manipulation will always happen in every day. Maybe it is happening for one or two days but to run in all days, it needs huge money, and not all whales want to do that. But out of that, as long as we can make a profit, we don't have to worry because we could take the benefit for ourselves and let the whales play with the price

Of course being manipulated. We are talking about an area without any legal regulations. Moreover, in response to such high demand, large Bitcoin wallets are still numerous. In order to reduce manipulation, more people need to have Bitcoin and the big wallets have to go down a bit.

Technically, If we apply the Gini coefficient to BTC which is also included in the economy. In terms of justice, very bad results can occur.

I often find altcoin trading with massive volume manipulation on the exchange, having 1k ETH volume but buy orders only amounting to 10k tokens at $ 0.1, roughly calculating the trading volume is far below $ 5k, so manipulation is done to gain trust from trading.

The main problem remains that trading takes place on centralized exchanges. Remember what horror was happening on QuadrigaCX, after the death of the CEO this exchange. Manipulation will be an integral part of trade and the only solution will be the emergence of a decentralized exchange where the blockchain will exclude any manipulation and speculation

the fiat currencies are also manipulated on a much larger scale. there are known cases like this:

http://en.cade.gov.br/press-releases/cade-signs-five-agreements-regarding-a-cartel-investigation-in-the-foreign-exchange-market-and-opens-a-new-cartel-investigation-in-the-brazilian-exchange-market

the thieves are always the same, Barclays, Citicorp, HSBC, JP Morgan... they always make some "amazing" agreement and pay insignificant fines.

There are always market manipulation even not in cryptocurrency. Most of the time, whales or large investors are those who can control the market. They tend to control because they hold huge amount of money. Market manipulation is normal in trading and we just need to accompany these changes. We have to go together with market manipulation because if we missed their waves nor we are against the flow, we cannot survive trading.

Yes, the market of the cryptocurrencies is always manipulated, and not only the whales are doing it. Scammers are successfully using pump and dump schemes and manage to sell tokens to newcomers for a very high price. Another attempt to manipulate the market is mass media information.
BTC price depends on demand much, and when people simply hear bad news, they are trying to get rid of crypto.

The manipulation in the cryptosphere is real and is evident for all to see. Crypto is highly manipulated and you need to be a big shareholder like the whales to be able to manipulate the industry. People are always deceived whenever something is hyped. No wonder many exchanges keeps faking up volume to attract traders.

It seems that the blockchain platform is not controlled by any organization or government, but its transactions are transparent. However, many criminals take advantage of this platform to illegally trade, launder money, buy weapons, ... that we cannot control. Some super-rich organizations have manipulated the market, it seems that this has strongly influenced investors and their trust.

It is somewhat to think that the market is manipulated by big whales just like they did before but I can say that it seems to be like that again.
We know how the looks if the market never been played by them, it gonna at low volatility percentage but we are glad to have them played cause it gives us also benefits. They aren't bad at all, in fact, it helps us to generate more gains as take advantage in every fluctuation we have.

That is, if we know how to ride with those manipulators. If you have gain experience they obviously you can take advantage of the situation, but cheap coins and then wait for the incoming run, rinse and repeat.


The thing with 2017 is that there are a lot of noobs who FOMO and manipulators did have a field day playing with the price. There could be investors who really make a lot of money from 2017, but remember we did have a bear market following that so it's not like a continue day in day out money making scheme.

In a market that handles both capital and cryptocurrencies, it is not surprising that speculations arise, especially from the so-called "great whales". that are entrepreneurs who have a great control of a good part of the volume of some projects, then you have to play with supply and demand, but that scenario has always existed and I think it will continue in the future, so we just need to learn to observe with a lot Be careful how the market behaves and make the best decisions, although there will always be risks.

bad or not with crypto market manipulation if we can take the opportunity and the right time will produce results too.
use your instincts and abilities to be able to read the market conditions.

Everybody might be rich in crypto who entered the market before 2017.if marketcap is not so big and if there are groups who make decisions together, there is a manipulation and its normal.it will be less every each year

This is a recipe for disaster...why am saying this is because when these manipulations happen, usually what follows is someone is going to be cashing in after all this and in the process crashing the price temporary and cycle goes on making them money over and over again regardless of how low or high the  price is.

Cryptos being manipulated is partially true. Let me explain.

Cryptocurrencies are manipulated. These are manipulated in a sense that there is no equal distribution of tokens, coins, and other cryptos. We have what we call WHALES - people or group of people who holds a larger portion of the total supply of a coin. There's a huge tendency that these whales can control the value of a certain token or coin they hold. One way of doing so is by moving huge amount of their tokens in the market/exchange, selling it at a certain value/price, and buying it with their EXTRA ACCOUNTS for the value they requested in their primary account.

For example:

A certain token, let's say TOKEN A, has a total supply of 1,000,000 tokens. One whale holds 50% of it (500,000 Tokens). The starting value/market value of that is $1. Then the  total cap of this token is $1M. Let's assume that the other 50% is being distributed by 50,000 people (each has 10 tokens). If that whale put 100,000 tokens in the market and sold it for $2 per token, then bought it with his/her other accounts at $2, there will be an adjustment in the current market cap of TOKEN A. That will also affect the value of the tokens distributed among the 50,000 people.

1,000,000 Total supply @ $1 per token = $1,000,000
100,000 tokens sold @ $2 per token = $200,000

900,000 tokens will remain at $1 each before the remaining 100,000 tokens is sold at $2.

900,000 tokens @ $1 per token = $900,000
100,000 tokens @ $2 per token = $200,000
NEW TOTAL CAP = $1,100,000
1,100,000/1,000,000 = $1.1 -----> new value of 1 TOKEN A

Crypto markets have been manipulated in some form or other since the massive pump in 2017....before that manipulation existed but nowhere as bad as now

investing in something and then selling it when you reach your price/profit target is not called manipulation. it is called the normal thing that any normal human being does and it is the exact definition of an "investment"!

"manipulation" is what is happening in altcoins for example. when a shitcoin out of nowhere rises up 100% in one day and then in the following day it drops just as much. that is called manipulation aka the pump and dump.

Let talk about manipulation in trading volumes, i found many fake volumes made by certain side to pump the altcoin (i don't wanna mention certain projects) . They increase the volumes of the coins until 300%. So, this also can occur on bitcoin since bitcoin has bigger community than alternative coins.