I saw that OP has no single proof or article reference to back up your opinion, so you are not very convincing about this. What bugged me is that right now government has so many more important problems than dumping Bitcoin, low employment, inflation, recession .etc, and dumping Bitcoin won't help them.
It's just OP's opinion and he's exaggerating bitcoin too much. In fact, many governments are showing interest in bitcoin as well as the crypto industry, even bringing it up for discussion in parliament. But what they're discussing is finding a way to control it, tax us, not enter the market and manipulate it. You are right, they don't have time to do such silly things while they have thousands of problems to solve as you mentioned. OP's imagination is amazing
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The more possible explanation IMO is that some people who speculate on Bitcoin because it's halving were not satisfied with the market condition until the Q3 and they don't want to speculate further, afraid if they would loss more money on the Q4.
In my opinion, maybe this is just a movement of bitcoin because bitcoin does not always need a reason to go up and down. And as we have also seen bitcoin has not been able to break above the $30k resistance for a long time and its dumping was also a movement after a series of days of sideways.
I wonder, if bitcoin hadn't been dumped but skyrocketed to $34,000, would the OP or others have blamed someone like the government or Elon?
Or will they say that bitcoin adoption is on the rise and the price increase is the result of that?