Every time Elon Musk talks positively about Dogecoin on Twitter, price per coin goes all the way to the moon. The contrary happens if he talks negatively about it. Most recently, Elon Musk criticized Bitcoin's high energy consumption stating that it's harmful to the environment. This caused Bitcoin's price to plunge all the way to $42k in an instant. It's up to this point, where Bitcoin hasn't recovered back to the $57k - $58k range.
It looks like people make decisions based on someone else's opinion instead of doing their own research about it. Most people follow Elon Musk closely, so anything he says (good or bad) can directly affect the whole crypto market in general. I believe Elon Musk's true intentions is to manipulate the market for his own financial benefit. Who knows if he bought more Bitcoin after prices went down because of his tweet?
What are your thoughts? Do you think Elon Musk is manipulating the crypto market? If not, why? Will crypto carry on as usual without Mr. Musk in play? Or is it too late? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I think Elon Musk is trying to maneuver, hoping he can move Dogecoin, but can we believe that Elon Musk has an important role in raising the price of Doge or lowering the price of BTC, isn't the concept in business that the higher the demand the higher the selling price.
I think Elon Musk is just trying to bluff and manipulate the crypto market under the pretext to increase his profits personally, crypto can't be linked to one person because of his existence, if the influence is big then the chance to drop Btc price is much more profitable, and why not just do it?
There is a desire that Elon Musk does not convey to the public about his tweets, I see this for personal interest, but what he does there are two possibilities that occur, first people think Elon Musk has an important role in Crypto, second is to beat the market, then people need like Elon Musk to undercut the price of the coin.
So there are people who feel benefited from this incident, one example is people who invest large amounts of doge when Elon Musk criticizes in various media, then the price of coin doge goes up meaning they benefit financially, but overall we don't see that big of an effect his criticism.