I know right
if right now you start to buy up every bitcoins available and are offered by traders, called accumulating as well, if current price is $1000 after successfully buying 20K bitcoins with a fixed $1000 per coin then you'll see how fast traders/sellers/holders increase their price which they're willing to sell, long story short if you try to accumulate half a million bitcoins in less than a month you'll end up with a $1150-$1250 averagely.
And from there every 100K coins you try to buy off from the community you can effectively pump the price starting from $1250 up to $1750 and before you could accumulate 1M
BTC the price already reached $2500.
However right now only about 2K bitcoins are being mined but the trading volume is more than 150K, yes I know some of it are fake volume and most of it day traders changing hands but someone is slowly accumulating coins in bulks but very slowly to avoid pumping the price and pay more money.
in a market like bitcoin it doesn't matter what one person or couple of them do. it is the total that matters. there is 16.5 million coins available (ignoring the lose ones) and there are millions of people accumulating from 0.01
BTC or less to 1000s
BTC and the total of all these "supply and demand" has already created a market for 8 years and we can see how the price has changed over the years with the change in this "supply and demand".
Because if you try to buy 5M bitcoins in matter of a week the price will shoot up to $50,000 per coin, sorry to tell you that if you think $18B marketcap for BTC is not real I've got to tell you that it's true marketcap is way above $500B.
nobody said $X marketcap is not real, the topic is that marketcap is not a good factor to compare cryptocurrencies with each other or with other things.
Some people are too greedy with short term visions when it comes to trading their coins no one really should sell under $2000 now they don't get it maybe they're stupid or something, we only have access to roughly 2K bitcoins daily and I won't continue because I don't want to give away such opportunity for free
but those with a bit of brain know what I'm talking about.
that is not called being greedy it is called being a day-trader as long as you buy the dips and sell the highs or in reverse to accumulate more bitcoin (sell the high and buy the dip).