This is a strategy or whale game of continuously lowering the market price so that many panic and fearful people will lose more if they don't sell at this time. Weak hands will definitely panic if faced with a continuous situation like this, especially for those who need money in a short time, are forced to be willing to sell their assets due to circumstances.
This is not a 'whale game' what happened in recent COVID time is that 'HOLDING-CASH" became TABOO,
Remember Ray Dalio "Cash is Trash", no return, negative rates.
All this started with the hedge fund collapse a few months ago, 100's of billions on margin-call, the PROBLEM is when everybody in financed is holding their CASH in BITCOIN, and there is a massive margin-call, then this is why you see bitcoin selling off 100's of billions in market capitalization
When firms get 100's of billions in margin calls, they're cash calls, not BTC calls; so the BTC needs to be sold to rise up the cash
I didn't happen immediately because banks covered each other based on their BITCOIN holdings as reserve escrow, but once the selling started then all hell broke lose, which why you now see 25% loss on bitcoin in one week
Not a damn thing to do with whales.
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