[ricardo81]

Given the market cap of 800 billion for BTC at the moment, presumably it should by relatively hard to manipulate.

I'd read elsewhere that there was a tiny minority of BTC holders that own 95% of it, no idea of the authenticity of that.

As a Layman, my assumption is the more liquidity in the market, the harder it would be to manipulate and less reason to dump onto the market if a large stakeholder.

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I think some of the whales could make the price tank, at least temporarily. They include some governments who seized thousands of BTC from criminal operations.

But I think the same applies to many stocks. If Musk of Bezos would sell off a majority of their shares in their own companies, it would perhaps also move the price.

At the moment, crashes in Bitcoin can also be seen as a good thing because it helps give more people access to Bitcoin. It's even possible that some of the stakeholders (whales with thousands of BTC) occasionally deliberately induce crashes for exactly that purpose.