Topic: Will Bitcoin Spot ETF's Manipulate Bitcoin's price? (Read 235 times)

People and their conspiracy theories about ETFs are funny. The amount of fear on here over firms simply packaging up Bitcoin to be sold through regulated financial product is pretty funny. Seems like half of the people on here thinks the ETF issuers are committing massive fraud and are stealing their customers' money to manipulate Bitcoin, when all they are doing is serving as the middleman to hold bitcoin on behalf of their customers.

Does Wall St do manipulative things to make more money? Absolutely. But they are not going to commit very obvious fraud with billions of dollars just to hurt a product that they literally make money off of lol.

Bitcoin ETFs are very straightforward. Client gives them money -> they use that money to buy bitcoin and give client appropriate number of shares of the ETF -> ETF tracks the price of Bitcoin because it holds Bitcoin worth the amount of money that has gone into the ETF.

Ya'll crack me up sometimes  



Remember last year when people were SURE Blackrock was going to somehow fork Bitcoin and destroy the old chain and turn Bitcoin into a Blackrock owned product....all just from having an ETF   too funny

Bitcoin purpose is freedom money for the free market.  The free market should set the btc price in $ not wall street. Last thing we want is real bitcoin price is tracking spot btc etf paper Iou's price. Hence there should be 2 bitcoin price markets on tradingview, 1 for real bitcoin and 1 for bitcoin paper derivatives iou's such as spot etf's.

Also we should be paying for stuff for sats on Layer 2 so bitcoin don't need to rely on $dollars to gauge its value. There's 2.1 Quadrillion Sats enough for world commerce. Satoshi programmed 2.1 Quadrillion Sats not 21 million Bitcoins.

We don't want wall street to manipulate the $dollar price of bitcoin.

Lets say USA goes through hyperinflation and Wall Street Manipulates the price of bitcoin at a steady $69000 for years like gold at $2000 for example to stop people exiting the fiat ramps onto bitcoin because people will say bitcoin price not going anywhere so what's the point exiting fiat for bitcoin. Like a psychological manipulation.

Wall street is not about getting richer, its about Power & Control and controlling people is more valuable to them than making profits.

It should be possible to grab their price listings, the amount they hold, the price and compare them and see if there's any variance no? They should be pretty transparent with the fees as well since again, the variance could easily be seen since there's a public blockchain available to all, unlike gold. So any "artificial" manipulation can obviously be seen if they start selling coins they don't particularly have a hold on. I do wonder though if there's a regulation for cases like that in there?

There may be some manipulation going on behind the scenes but I believe it wouldn't be big enough to impact the market. I guess the only worry here is if they started holding the majority of the market due to how most people wanted to buy through ETFs instead of their own.

One thing you should not be happy about is when Governments fiddle with the things you like.  It happens for a reason.

ETF is great for the reputation of Bitcoin.  For more awareness about its existence.  For increasing trust in individuals who previously shared concerns about Bitcoin and its future.

But ETF is very bad for Bitcoin itself in my opinion.  When you mess Bitcoin and paper in the same pot you will get a pretty ugly result.  Who guarantees any thing and who actually provably verifies every backing?  Bitcoin shares proof.  There is proof of every Transaction being valid through Confirmations.  Every thing is verifiable and provable.  Banks are very sketchy anyway so why would I be happy about ETF and Bitcoin shaking hands?

I do strongly believe there will be a Market manipulation of sorts through ETFs and such.  There will be more restrictions the more Governments 'try to find a way to handle Bitcoin'.  You get the illusion of every thing getting better when actually the opposite is true.  On the outside, it all seems healthy.  On the inside though, there is a lot of decay.

   Bitcoin spot ETF deals by trade on exchanges, keeps Bitcoin as it's first asset, and monitor on its own the price of Bitcoin , opening up for investors  it price movement without having it's asset directly . The future ETF's is based on the contracts Bitcoin gets in future .
   
   As demand increases,the series of changes in new investors and capital can increase the price of Bitcoin,when Bitcoin ETF is being approved and launch it will ratify Bitcoin's quality in the mainstream financial way can be able to give support   confidence in Bitcoin and make a high price .
   The quantity and rate of Bitcoin ETF coming in ,may be a strong factor that will affect the price of Bitcoin both in short-term and  long-term. Bitcoin ETF will impact on the price of Bitcoin because of it's finite supply .

We can't be very sure about their exact holdings. But yes, a regular third party audit can possibly lessen their thoughts of faking their holdings. However, the third party should have a very good reputation on this job. Otherwise, they can just easily practice the under-the-table scheme.

And I don't think they can really manipulate the btc market because there are so many stakeholders with varying interests. But they can surely influence the sentiments of the holders by giving some statements towards this market. So holders should be very careful in jumping over the hype that they can possibly create. Don't trust them too much about what they release to the public.

Your concern is reasonable; the Bitcoin ETF means more Bitcoin holdings by centralised organisations. They could definitely manipulate the market if they wanted since they are holding a large amount of bitcoin. But there should be transparency that they are holding exact allocations of trading on their platform. And since the SEC approved them for Bitcoin ETF trading, they should audit their exchange holdings. They should make sure exchanges aren't faking their holdings. An audit should be done by a third party from time to time and submit the report to the SEC. 

Any big player who has a lot of bitcoins can manipulate the market. It used to be cryptocurrency exchanges that could easily set the price direction they wanted. Then it became the futures cme etf. Now it has become wall street. Although any of them can influence the price. This market is still very young and highly manipulative.

I mean first of all, nobody is FORCED to trust the institutions that offer these ETFs haha. People willingly choose to buy the ETFs. Some people prefer to simply have bitcoin be an investment rather than use it in the future as a currency one day, and they prefer to invest in it through a financial product offered by their financial institutions rather than take on the responsibility of owning it themselves.

Bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin ETFs are financial products that make it easy for people to invest in, and not own, Bitcoin. Two very different things, both very desired by  millions of people.

Bitcoin ETFs don't stop you from using bitcoin. They don't stop you from not relying on third parties. lol. It's just a different way to invest (rather than use) Bitcoin. We are not "just back on track with the same things". Bitcoin still exists! ETFs didn't make Bitcoin not exist all of a sudden haha. It's just a different way to use one of Bitcoin's features (specifically its feature that it is a supply capped asset and so appreciates over time). Or if you thought Bitcoin would just destroy all national currencies and it would be the only currency used in the world and everyone would be keeping their own private keys...well I guess you just never thought about reality tbh haha ;p

I feel like some bitcoiners need to step out of the bubble and realize the world is a big place and not everyone is going to directly use Bitcoin as a currency exactly the way you want them to. Not everyone is going to store bitcoin in cold wallets. Not everyone is gonna run their own node. Bitcoin was designed for those things, yes, and that ability is always open to anyone who wants to take full advantage of Bitcoin's features. But in no way does that mean everyone has to take advantage of every feature of Bitcoin. And in no way does that fact do anything to make Bitcoin less than what it is.

Having a concept of the ideological concept of Bitcoin as sovereign borderless decentralized money is a good thing. But acting as though reality not conforming to perfect ideology means Bitcoin is somehow corrupted or failing or being manipulated is very naive.

"Satoshi's Bitcoin is pretty straightforward. You buy it and keep it. That's it.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs are complicated and rather messy. It's not just a third party that we're forced to trust. While Satoshi's Bitcoin removes third parties, this spot Bitcoin ETF thing not only keeps it but even adds more, a whole lot more."  I agree 100%.




This what I say all the time. It's totally out of context for blockchain technology itself. The main purpose was to not rely on third parties, old school banking system, and now we are just back on track with the same things. I never understand the logic

Many have tried to imitate Bitcoin and failed. The attempts began with altcoins, then bitcoin forks, and when the alternatives did not work, we found that Wrapped tokens had begun to appear, such as wBTC, and then we find Bitcoin on more than one blockchain. However, most people still know what Bitcoin is, and many decide to withdraw it to their wallets.

Gold has lost its luster not because of the conspiracy theory, but there are other investments that give a better return. There are lands, real estate, debts, bonds, stocks, and cryptocurrencies, and under each of these are thousands of assets that may have a higher ROI than gold.

I hate third party, because they will always look for a way to manipulate the market since they have investors bitcoin in their custody. They are never out to help you safeguard your bitcoin, but they are out to make profit from your bitcoin that you will keep in there custody.

One thing that I like in bitcoin due to it decentralized nature is that, the price can be manipulated but it will only be in a short term, and bitcoin price will go back to the way it was designed. There are still people that keep their bitcoin in self custody wallets, this is why the price manipulation will not last.

This world is controlled by people with a lot of money, so even without a bitcoin ETF, there will be other ways for institutions and sharks to manipulate bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. And speaking of price manipulation, you should know that bitcoin price has never been completely determined by supply and demand, it has always been the most manipulated asset and that is why it has a high level of volatility.

Bitcoin was created by satoshi to be a peer-to-peer currency, a decentralized asset, but we ourselves turned it into a financial market. And once it is a financial market, manipulation is inevitable, whether we have a bitcoin ETF or not.

I remember reading about the whole "Wall St manipulates the price of Gold to keep it down" thing a couple years ago when I was reading up on Gold. Had no idea if there is any truth to it or if its just a gold bug conspiracy theory. But it seems like all gold bugs bring it up a lot. I'm guessing its more conspiracy theory than reality.


Anyway, Bitcoin ETFs simply buy (or sell) based on their customer's purchases of the ETF. Not sure what you're talking about OP when you talk about paper bitcoins. They literally have to buy the bitcoin with their customers money and in exchange the customer gets an ETF share of the same value. "Paper bitcoins" don't come into it anywhere. They aren't issuing anything other than ETF shares, which are based on the money their clients give them to buy bitcoin with.


And Gold is a very old asset. Everybody already owned Gold. And still it like doubled in price from 2009 to 2011 in the aftermath of the great recession and when the Gold ETF hit. You act like Gold price never moves, but it moved a ton during that time. Then after the global economy mostly went back to normal people dropped their Gold and the price went back down some, and stayed there until 2019/2020 when it went up due to economic concerns and then covid to current price. Gold has actually moved a ton the past 15 years considering how mature of an asset it is and the fact that its only main purpose is as a store of value.


In your post you literally described what you think Wall St will do with Bitcoin ETFs as fraud. You think they are going to commit fraud and potentially go to jail just to keep the price of Bitcoin down? While they are going to make a bunch of money off their customers buying their ETFs and a Bitcoin price that goes down would only hurt their business. Also the ETFs simply follow the spot price because they have to buy actual bitcoin for the ETFs.

Also what is this about Blackrock manipulating people into selling them their bitcoin?! lol. People sell because they want to sell. Nobody is like "oh I better sell my bitcoin so Blackrock can buy it!" Like what are you even talking about? The ETFs are just new participants in the Bitcoin market, buying on behalf of the clients who are purchasing shares of the ETFs.

Your whole post sounds like a big conspiracy theory tbh.

It because Gold isn't that scarce in the first place, no ones know the total supply unlike Bitcoin. You shouldn't compare between a transparent and very limited asset with a private and limited asset.

Why only into two markets? there are more than two:

1. P2P and DEX BTC price.
2. Shitcoins pegged to Bitcoin e.g. WBTC, BTCB.
3. Centralized exchange price.
4. ETFs.

Of course they will attempt to manipulate the price for their own interests, but they really have to do nothing to gain money, beside run the business properly, that is, to be a good custodian and to track the BTC price, then collect the fees. So they are going to make a ton of money from just being good actors.

That doesn't mean they will be good actors tho. I predict some sort of push for a Bitcoin USD Government Friendly hard fork in the future, pushed by Blackrock and co. If I were to buy an ETF, I would but the Fidelity one.

The entrance of spot ETF into Bitcoin will, at some point, make Bitcoin similar to other stocks such as Dow Jones that are heavily manipulated through different mechanisms. We should not expect that big institutions are coming to play fair because they never have and never will.  What happened on the day of approval, where Bitcoin pumped to over $48k before going downhill within a short time, is a classical indication of what is possible when deep pockets enters the market.

Like many contributors has already said, owning real Bitcoin is still a preferred option.

Don’t worry about any manipulation. They are not creating paper bitcoins to crash the market. Many of the Bitcoin etfs have publicly published their cold storage of their holdings and you can see how much they have and compare it to their AUM.

And these are publicly traded companies and they need to file proper statements and documents to prove they own these bitcoins.

Many of the holders of these etfs are regular individuals who invest with their 401K. It’s not all Wall Street traders who want to crash the market.

Satoshi's Bitcoin is pretty straightforward. You buy it and keep it. That's it.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs are complicated and rather messy. It's not just a third party that we're forced to trust. While Satoshi's Bitcoin removes third parties, this spot Bitcoin ETF thing not only keeps it but even adds more, a whole lot more.

If your asset is managed by Charles Schwab, for example, you can actually buy BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF. Since BlackRock isn't allowed to directly purchase Bitcoin, it has authorized participants to do that on its behalf. J. P. Morgan is one. But then BlackRock's IBIT is also sponsored by iShares Delaware. And then there's Coinbase, the Bitcoin custodian. There's also BNY Mellon as the cash custodian and administrator.

So there's your brokerage firm, the trust, the sponsor of the trust, the trustee, the trustee of the trust, the custodian of the trust's Bitcoin holdings, the custodian of the trust's cash holdings, the administrator, that you need to fully trust. LOL! Further, there are also different regulating agencies that you also need to trust that they won't suddenly change tune in the middle of the game.

Price has been manipulated for a while and in many ways. What you are talking about is manipulation of the asset, not the price.

The only Bitcoin you own is the one that you have withdrawn from the platforms to your wallet where you have the private key. All other forms of ownership are certificates from a third party telling you that you have an amount of Bitcoin that is kept for you, but these claims cannot be believed or denied.These entities can manipulate even the presence of observe bitcoin hodler wallets, and it is easy to buy bitcoin, so there is no need to trust a third party to do it for you.