What makes cryptocurrency prone to manipulation is that centralized entities, i.e. exchanges, and centralized lending platforms, are lacking regulation compared to stocks that what he is talking about. It is truly on another level considering the recent FTX made some of us either users or governments shocked out of the blue.
We can see that cryptocurrency spaces and markets are getting more scrutinized, we can see stablecoin regulation getting tighter, and in some countries, there is a specific need for what coin/token that can or can't be listed. I think there is a line that need to be addressed by authority for centralized cryptocurrency platforms, because that is what some people want.
Topic: They still think crypto is easy to manipulate? - CEO Crunchbase (Read 191 times)
February 20, 2023, 10:53:53 AM
This technology is so complex. The nature of market price volatility itself cannot be mnipulated so how come would it be?
Well, Bitcoin is growing more and more mature every year. Musk tweeted some bs later and it didn't work - Bitcoin didn't react. In 2017 mailmen and grannies selling caused Bitcoin to dump and end it's cycle. Do you think it could be possible today?
Don't you remember the story in the 2021 bull season, Elon manipulated bitcoin with a few tweets? Bitcoin stopped reacting after that, as everyone realized that Elon's intention was just to take advantage of it. But it shows bitcoin is too easy to manipulate.
Yes, bitcoin is constantly growing, but when the market cap is 1000 billion dollars, it is smaller than a US technology company, and what fairness do you expect in this market? The gold market has a capitalization of over $11 trillion, and the stock market is over $70 trillion. Do you think bitcoin is big enough to not be manipulated?
Prices are highly reactive to things which cause hype. This is simply because value depends solely with demand. An individual like elon has the credibility and monetary power to prove his claims which easily convinces many small investors to follow into him. Then a wave will be created resulting to a trend. Try it yourself, doing the same thing. Not all people will believe you because of your impressions to them. People are easily following such hype things because of the influencer's image. Wherein all of these would fall under category of persuading individuals through self image.
Bitcoin is still a speculative market, nothing more and there is no regulation on it yet so manipulation is what is happening. You would be naive to assume that decentralized bitcoin cannot be manipulated. Remember what Elon did in 2021, just one of his tweets was enough to make the market move, let alone spend money to manipulate it. No asset class is dependent on supply and demand that can fluctuate several tens of percent in a day.
Well, Bitcoin is growing more and more mature every year. Musk tweeted some bs later and it didn't work - Bitcoin didn't react. In 2017 mailmen and grannies selling caused Bitcoin to dump and end it's cycle. Do you think it could be possible today?
Don't you remember the story in the 2021 bull season, Elon manipulated bitcoin with a few tweets? Bitcoin stopped reacting after that, as everyone realized that Elon's intention was just to take advantage of it. But it shows bitcoin is too easy to manipulate.
Yes, bitcoin is constantly growing, but when the market cap is 1000 billion dollars, it is smaller than a US technology company, and what fairness do you expect in this market? The gold market has a capitalization of over $11 trillion, and the stock market is over $70 trillion. Do you think bitcoin is big enough to not be manipulated?
February 20, 2023, 08:50:00 AM
I agree that the cryptocurrency industry can be manipulated by stock market sharks. Stock market sharks have vast experience in dealing with stocks, bonds, derivatives and other securities.
At the end of 2017, one of the Wall Street speculators said that they (the stock market sharks) managed to rein in Bitcoin and it is now completely controlled. It was about the introduction of tradable Bitcoin futures. This financial system allowed Wall Street speculators to manipulate the price of Bitcoin.
As for other cryptocurrencies (with a small capitalization), their price is even easier to manipulate.
At the end of 2017, one of the Wall Street speculators said that they (the stock market sharks) managed to rein in Bitcoin and it is now completely controlled. It was about the introduction of tradable Bitcoin futures. This financial system allowed Wall Street speculators to manipulate the price of Bitcoin.
As for other cryptocurrencies (with a small capitalization), their price is even easier to manipulate.
Many people are still naive to think that bitcoin is decentralized so it cannot be manipulated, what happens in the market is due to supply and demand. Of all the financial markets, I believe bitcoin is the most manipulated and a place to launder the money of tycoons. That's why bitcoin could exist to this day, otherwise, the government would have eliminated it a long time ago.
February 20, 2023, 07:49:17 AM
I agree that the cryptocurrency industry can be manipulated by stock market sharks. Stock market sharks have vast experience in dealing with stocks, bonds, derivatives and other securities.
At the end of 2017, one of the Wall Street speculators said that they (the stock market sharks) managed to rein in Bitcoin and it is now completely controlled. It was about the introduction of tradable Bitcoin futures. This financial system allowed Wall Street speculators to manipulate the price of Bitcoin.
As for other cryptocurrencies (with a small capitalization), their price is even easier to manipulate.
At the end of 2017, one of the Wall Street speculators said that they (the stock market sharks) managed to rein in Bitcoin and it is now completely controlled. It was about the introduction of tradable Bitcoin futures. This financial system allowed Wall Street speculators to manipulate the price of Bitcoin.
As for other cryptocurrencies (with a small capitalization), their price is even easier to manipulate.
February 20, 2023, 07:34:42 AM
How can he say and compare between the market cap of Tesla stocks and crypto market and state that it's easy to manipulate because both of them have mere difference of 350 billions dollars. He thinks, 1 trillion dollar is very small market cap for the crypto and it could be easily manipulated.
One trillion dollars is definitely not pocket change, and I hate to admit it but Ronald AngSiy could be right on possible manipulation of crypto because of how crypto is designed... If you have taken a keen interest at the order book when ever you take trades i.e buy or sell a crypto coin... You can literally see this action by the candles printing pattern, now imagine someone with deep pockets moving around their money 
they certainly can manipulate price... And the fact that crypto users like to go with what the market is doing by trying to catch the next wave... The whales can have the gasoline and everyone else can be the match stick and that's how you get a big reaction. Isn't crypto is also a technological advancement that was invented very recently and also under stringent jurisdiction all over the world?
Stringent jurisdiction??? I don't follow... AFAIK with cryptocurrencies been decentralized in nature, I don't see how any law can actually tame the raging bull to bring it under their control. Another point he forgot to consider is, decentralization. How one can get to manipulate such market which is distributed through public ledger down to the pennies!
It's decentralized nature has no fair play rules, meaning the big boys will play around with their money and affect crypto negative or positively without having rules to stop such actors. 
February 18, 2023, 09:34:17 PM
Any financial market has whales, but the difference is clear between cryptocurrencies and stocks. Stocks are regulated and monitored by law enforcement, so manipulation is behavior that could land you in jail, but with the crypto market being a free market, there are no regulations, the manipulation will not be controlled by anyone and does not violate the regulations. That's why sharks love to operate in the crypto market, and I believe that with bitcoin's $400 billion market cap, manipulation shouldn't be too difficult for sharks.
It is true that the stock exchanges are regulated and legal but manipulating the stock exchange markets is not against the law and I don't think it can land the whales in jail.Usually, the whales bet on the fall of the shares of a company and start buying them strongly at a good price, then they start selling at a loss until the rest of the investors panic and sell their shares at a cheap value, then the whales return to buy these shares again at cheap prices.
This is legal market manipulation because there is no law preventing it from happening and whales will not go to jail for this manipulation as long as they do not commit any violation.
February 18, 2023, 09:29:23 AM
Bitcoin is still a speculative market, nothing more and there is no regulation on it yet so manipulation is what is happening. You would be naive to assume that decentralized bitcoin cannot be manipulated. Remember what Elon did in 2021, just one of his tweets was enough to make the market move, let alone spend money to manipulate it. No asset class is dependent on supply and demand that can fluctuate several tens of percent in a day.
Well, Bitcoin is growing more and more mature every year. Musk tweeted some bs later and it didn't work - Bitcoin didn't react. In 2017 mailmen and grannies selling caused Bitcoin to dump and end it's cycle. Do you think it could be possible today?
Don't you remember the story in the 2021 bull season, Elon manipulated bitcoin with a few tweets? Bitcoin stopped reacting after that, as everyone realized that Elon's intention was just to take advantage of it. But it shows bitcoin is too easy to manipulate.
Yes, bitcoin is constantly growing, but when the market cap is 1000 billion dollars, it is smaller than a US technology company, and what fairness do you expect in this market? The gold market has a capitalization of over $11 trillion, and the stock market is over $70 trillion. Do you think bitcoin is big enough to not be manipulated?
February 18, 2023, 05:44:40 AM
There is no denying the fact that the crypto market is highly volatile and can be manipulated, but not as easily as the article talks about.
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
Any financial market has whales, but the difference is clear between cryptocurrencies and stocks. Stocks are regulated and monitored by law enforcement, so manipulation is behavior that could land you in jail, but with the crypto market being a free market, there are no regulations, the manipulation will not be controlled by anyone and does not violate the regulations. That's why sharks love to operate in the crypto market, and I believe that with bitcoin's $400 billion market cap, manipulation shouldn't be too difficult for sharks.
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February 17, 2023, 04:35:16 PM
What market he is talking about ? Interest on the bitcoin is not getting increased?
And he is also right about Small cap crypto coins being easy to manipulate, aside bitcoin, Ethereum and some other major altcoins with market cap running in billions, i can agree that the rest of the altcoins available can be easily manipulated by really big money, but still, that does not deter true believers from investing in the project they find to have lots of potentials, after all, cryptocurrency is still a growing industry and i believe that with time, a lot of good and quality projects will have their market cap running in trillions and 100s of billions.
February 17, 2023, 04:18:59 PM
There is no denying the fact that the crypto market is highly volatile and can be manipulated, but not as easily as the article talks about.
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
They rarely relate whales manipulating the dollar stock market but they don't stop talking about whales manipulating the crypto market, they have a reason why post crypto market fud to panic traders and investors and they want to buy bitcoin at low price, crypto investors are very wise to respond to the news and will not be affected by fud news about whales because whales are also investors who have the most bitcoins and they also want to profit from investing in bitcoin. It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
February 17, 2023, 04:04:00 PM
There is no denying the fact that the crypto market is highly volatile and can be manipulated, but not as easily as the article talks about.
It was so easy, remember just one tweet from Elon Musk the market of some cryptocurrency project easily spiked up. Even Bitcoin is easily manipulated by group of popular infuencer if they keep on hyping or FUD'ing the market.
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
This is one of the reason why cryptocurrency is easily manipulated. There is no governing body that secure the market of manipulation, whales can easily do their manipulation freely without being apprehended.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
Whales coupled with influencer are the best manipulator in the cryptocurrency industry, IMO.
February 17, 2023, 02:39:26 PM
There is no denying the fact that the crypto market is highly volatile and can be manipulated, but not as easily as the article talks about.
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
It is true that cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but there are some whales that control and manipulate the crypto market, but they do not have complete control over the market. Of course, they can direct it in the direction they want, but in the end they are also interested in preserving the survival of the crypto market, otherwise they will lose millions of dollars.
Whales are the main players in the Crypto market as well as in dollar stock exchanges. Whales also manipulate stock exchanges. Why doesn't the article talk about that as well?
February 17, 2023, 02:14:18 PM
The whales have high potentials I'm the manipulation of Bitcoin that is why they control the market and would want us to sell our holdings so that they can make a lots of money. This is while the wise traders are not bothered about the market noice no matter how dip the market goes. The whales are very realistic in what they do and they make lots of money from our loses.
This is why they are not bothered if the market keep going down since they knows how to make the market goes bear and goes bullish.
I will not be bothered about what the market present but determine to walk around the rough and zigzag path that will lead to the bull.
This is why they are not bothered if the market keep going down since they knows how to make the market goes bear and goes bullish.
I will not be bothered about what the market present but determine to walk around the rough and zigzag path that will lead to the bull.
February 17, 2023, 12:42:11 PM
I dont know if I am on the right track but I laughed very hard after reading the title of that news (referred below). I dont know why would he say that but article just comapres the whole stuff with Fed Interest rate hikes and how they are affecting the crypto market, however in reality it's just baseless assumption.
How can he say and compare between the market cap of Tesla stocks and crypto market and state that it's easy to manipulate because both of them have mere difference of 350 billions dollars. He thinks, 1 trillion dollar is very small market cap for the crypto and it could be easily manipulated.
However, his assumption is based on the volume alone and not the factual analysis. Isn't crypto is also a technological advancement that was invented very recently and also under stringent jurisdiction all over the world? It still makes up most of the market despite the fact that its being boxed up by governments.
Another point he forgot to consider is, decentralization. How one can get to manipulate such market which is distributed through public ledger down to the pennies!
Despite the fact that FED is continuously increasing interest rates I believe bitcoin had null effects during the new year season. In fact opposite of that happened and bitcoin went up pretty good and it's not even full fist quarter.
What market he is talking about ? Interest on the bitcoin is not getting increased?
If we go by his logic. Small countries with a small stock markets are worthless. I understand there are small cap Cryptos which are merely nothing but shitcoins created for manipulation yet market isn't as easy to be manipulated by a single hand. Also it's generally a phase eventually the market will grow and evolve to a stage where it will be hard to manipulate even for the biggest. Talking about manipulation, stock markets despite all the large cap stocks still gets manipulated. So how is that better than Cryptos? How can he say and compare between the market cap of Tesla stocks and crypto market and state that it's easy to manipulate because both of them have mere difference of 350 billions dollars. He thinks, 1 trillion dollar is very small market cap for the crypto and it could be easily manipulated.
However, his assumption is based on the volume alone and not the factual analysis. Isn't crypto is also a technological advancement that was invented very recently and also under stringent jurisdiction all over the world? It still makes up most of the market despite the fact that its being boxed up by governments.
Another point he forgot to consider is, decentralization. How one can get to manipulate such market which is distributed through public ledger down to the pennies!
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Aside from Bitcoin, Ether, and a few other cryptocurrencies with a high trading volume, investing in crypto is "more risky" than buying penny stocks, according to Ronald AngSiy, COO of CEO.ca, who previously worked as a blockchain expert.
"Any individual can manipulate crypto prices today because of how small the market cap is," he observed. "Once you get to the smaller cryptocurrencies, that's where it's significantly more risky than a penny stock for investors."
He highlighted that Tesla stock has a market cap of $650 billion, while the entire crypto market only has a market cap of $1 trillion, making crypto "easy" to manipulate.
"If you look at the price of a Binance token, versus the price of a Tesla stock, you'll see how small the crypto market is," he suggested. "It's hard, in such a small market, to say how what's happening in the world will directly affect prices today."
AngSiy spoke with David Lin, Anchor and Producer at Kitco News.
Bearish Crypto Trends in 2023
AngSiy suggested that there is "more pain ahead for crypto investors" in 2023, as the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates.
"How that pain is manifested is hard to exactly say, because the crypto market is so small that you could have one or two front-end entities manipulate the price of whole crypto market," he said.
He observed that since Bitcoin came into being in 2008, the crypto market has only experienced a "low interest-rate world," with the Effective Fed Funds Rate (EFFR) never rising beyond 2.5 percent until 2022. Currently, the EFFR is around 4.5 percent, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has stated that further hikes are expected until the Fed reaches a terminal rate of around 5 percent in 2023.
"We've never seen it [crypto] in a high and growing interest-rate world, which is what is happening right now," he said. "When you look at low interest-rate environments, it's easier for investors to borrow money, and then to take that money and then allocate a portion of it to crypto… now you're seeing money being pulled back from risk assets [like crypto] and either allocated to safer assets, or you're seeing risk assets being margin called."
"Any individual can manipulate crypto prices today because of how small the market cap is," he observed. "Once you get to the smaller cryptocurrencies, that's where it's significantly more risky than a penny stock for investors."
He highlighted that Tesla stock has a market cap of $650 billion, while the entire crypto market only has a market cap of $1 trillion, making crypto "easy" to manipulate.
"If you look at the price of a Binance token, versus the price of a Tesla stock, you'll see how small the crypto market is," he suggested. "It's hard, in such a small market, to say how what's happening in the world will directly affect prices today."
AngSiy spoke with David Lin, Anchor and Producer at Kitco News.
Bearish Crypto Trends in 2023
AngSiy suggested that there is "more pain ahead for crypto investors" in 2023, as the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates.
"How that pain is manifested is hard to exactly say, because the crypto market is so small that you could have one or two front-end entities manipulate the price of whole crypto market," he said.
He observed that since Bitcoin came into being in 2008, the crypto market has only experienced a "low interest-rate world," with the Effective Fed Funds Rate (EFFR) never rising beyond 2.5 percent until 2022. Currently, the EFFR is around 4.5 percent, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has stated that further hikes are expected until the Fed reaches a terminal rate of around 5 percent in 2023.
"We've never seen it [crypto] in a high and growing interest-rate world, which is what is happening right now," he said. "When you look at low interest-rate environments, it's easier for investors to borrow money, and then to take that money and then allocate a portion of it to crypto… now you're seeing money being pulled back from risk assets [like crypto] and either allocated to safer assets, or you're seeing risk assets being margin called."
Despite the fact that FED is continuously increasing interest rates I believe bitcoin had null effects during the new year season. In fact opposite of that happened and bitcoin went up pretty good and it's not even full fist quarter.
What market he is talking about ? Interest on the bitcoin is not getting increased?
February 17, 2023, 12:22:09 PM
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investing in crypto is "more risky" than buying penny stocks
Dude is 100% correct here: crypto! Please note: he mentions crypto (shitcoins), not Bitcoin and I could agree with that.
Lol, crypto is a general term for all cryptocurrencies, it includes Bitcoin. Though I agree that investing in cryptocurrency is way more risky since the market isn't that regulated yet and there are more possibilities of a scam than a regulated one.
As to the ability to manipulate Bitcoin, maybe he's also partially right: it can be done, but will be more problematic than manipulating any stock. Why? In order to dump coins, one must have coins. So you'll have to buy a boatload of Bitcoin and there is a possibility that scarcity will kick in and you won't like the price at some moment as more Bitcoiners will want to sell at a higher price or not sell at all. Amount of bitcoins on exchanges is also limited. Easier said than done. 
The Bitcoin market can be manipulated though it is not as easy as before. Ever seen the Bitcoin price crash due to some issue not really related to Bitcoin? FTX, Terra Luna, they are not directly related to Bitcoin since they are centralized exchanges but when they collapse, Bitcoin is affected. Why? That is where manipulation comes in. Since these two centralized company are too popular, those who wanted to crash the market price of Bitcoin use the chance to FUD the BTC market when these two centralized company collapsed. Bitcoin price plummets as end result.
February 17, 2023, 11:57:24 AM
They are definitely saying the truth. In the real market you have securities of funds via different channels. For example a stock could be backed up by more than 50% holdings in the hands of owners or government conglomerates thus giving it firm strength to survive in the worst case scenario.
In case of crypto we already know it’s not possible. The only thing that keeps it alive is peeps trading it and it’s highly volatile in the long range. Even bitcoin shattered its graph multiple times to such down levels that pees started fearing whether it will ever come back or not?
I think dude is right and nothing is wrong with that.
In case of crypto we already know it’s not possible. The only thing that keeps it alive is peeps trading it and it’s highly volatile in the long range. Even bitcoin shattered its graph multiple times to such down levels that pees started fearing whether it will ever come back or not?
I think dude is right and nothing is wrong with that.
February 17, 2023, 11:56:58 AM
Bitcoin is still a speculative market, nothing more and there is no regulation on it yet so manipulation is what is happening. You would be naive to assume that decentralized bitcoin cannot be manipulated. Remember what Elon did in 2021, just one of his tweets was enough to make the market move, let alone spend money to manipulate it. No asset class is dependent on supply and demand that can fluctuate several tens of percent in a day.
Well, Bitcoin is growing more and more mature every year. Musk tweeted some bs later and it didn't work - Bitcoin didn't react. In 2017 mailmen and grannies selling caused Bitcoin to dump and end it's cycle. Do you think it could be possible today?
February 17, 2023, 11:48:09 AM
The lower the market cap, the easier the price of the coin or token is to manipulate. This is just simple logic.
So I do not see how exactly it is NOT easy to manipulate. All you really need is a lot of money. Even Bitcoin was manipulated greatly when it just started out with a small market cap. A lot of rich whales do this everyday with new coins or tokens that are new and have a low market cap. We call those coins pump and dump schemes.
Especially if the coin can be leveraged as a derivative. At that point, liquidating the funds of the smaller investors is very easy. Incidentally the exact reason why I stay away from derivatives nowadays.
So I do not see how exactly it is NOT easy to manipulate. All you really need is a lot of money. Even Bitcoin was manipulated greatly when it just started out with a small market cap. A lot of rich whales do this everyday with new coins or tokens that are new and have a low market cap. We call those coins pump and dump schemes.
Especially if the coin can be leveraged as a derivative. At that point, liquidating the funds of the smaller investors is very easy. Incidentally the exact reason why I stay away from derivatives nowadays.
February 17, 2023, 11:42:43 AM
They are basically not aware of the marketcap and how much people actually have. When you are that rich, and you see the marketcap of some coins, you could technically think that you may end up manipulating it yourself. After all, many people with 100+ million dollars could actually manipulate it, not bitcoin but some of the others at least. On the other hand, they do not realize that average person in the world makes about 20k dollars per year, and that means we can't even do it to most smallest ones, only if it is like less than a grand volume per day we may end up capable of doing it, and those are not the ones he is talking about.
February 17, 2023, 11:01:01 AM
Bitcoin is still a speculative market, nothing more and there is no regulation on it yet so manipulation is what is happening. You would be naive to assume that decentralized bitcoin cannot be manipulated. Remember what Elon did in 2021, just one of his tweets was enough to make the market move, let alone spend money to manipulate it. No asset class is dependent on supply and demand that can fluctuate several tens of percent in a day.
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