Quote from: asriloni on February 28, 2017, 07:24:29 AM

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Quote from: PaymyBills on February 27, 2017, 04:22:17 PM

Only the big whales of 10.000 BTC would be able to have an impact on the price, and even then, it would be minimum.

We saw hundred of thousands of BTC stolen from Bitfinex and we saw a flash crash and we are already recovering. The amount of money you would need is simply too damn high.

IMHO whales holding 10.000 BTC are not fond of dumping coins because the believe bitcoins potential has not yet reached, unless the carried out a coordinated dumping to manipulate prices.

Having the number of coins is very easy to influence the market and do so competently to direct at low prices could buy more bitcoin.

More demands and it will very difficult to manipulate the price of bitcoin. but it depend on the situation of the bitcoin market. if he dump on the bearish trend and it will give him more.

yeah the more people join bitcoins the harder it is to manipulate it, right now big whales like people from china and mining companies can still manipulate the bitcoin price if they start selling the coins they hold at a very rapid pace, but in the future it is going to be pretty much impossible.

Quote from: PaymyBills on February 28, 2017, 10:34:22 AM

If all bitcointalk community turn your power into manipulation, this can be possible, but hard!

And this is illegal, better stay clean

how is it illegal to manipulate the bitcoin price? If the person has a lot of bitcoins and he starts selling it really fast then he manipulates it unwillingly and I really doubt that it would be counted as a criminal offence...