Just wondering why did not I saw all these topics when it was rising . At that time nobody is trying to find out the real reason why it is rising so fast, What are real reason for its increasing so much value in short span.
Now everybody becoming worried about manipulations when it is going down.
This is a good viewpoint. Seems to be typical human behaviour, I suppose- especially in the markets. When people are making money during bull runs and the market is euphoric, prices rise. Nobody complains, skepticism is at an all time low. Essentially, people are blindsided by the positivity and exponential increase in price, making it hard to even think that manipulation is occurring or is possible. Seems the opposite is true when markets are hitting their lows, people finally become skeptical, concerned, and weary. Again- typical human behaviour, and is why being emotional and trying to participate in markets strictly for investment and trading purposes is a match made in hell.
While it's definitely possible for people to somewhat control and manipulate the prices of bitcoin to a certain extent, we can't be sure of that.
Does it matter short term? Nah. Anyway, this 'problem' should be gradually fixed as time goes as the marketcap of bitcoin goes bigger(assuming the marketcap increases steadily yearly). With higher marketcap and with more money in general that's into bitcoin, the price of bitcoin will be significantly harder to manipulate and to significantly harder to skew over with big buy and sell offers.
Agreed and agreed. Although there's a real supply and demand model to Bitcoin, this relates strictly to the price of the cryptocurrency. The fundamentals cannot be bought nor sold, meaning that even the wealthiest of buyers- while currently able to purchase large amounts of Bitcoin and move the market in ways, will hopefully become less of an issue in some years, when the technology is more advanced and adopted, with millions of people owning Bitcoin. The manipulations, which of course are apparent here and there, are sort of a short term issue in the grand scheme of things. Bitcoin's a volatile asset, and hopefully this will become less of an issue if it becomes widely "adopted."