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Re: What power does Traders have on the Bitcoin price ?
by
mamaya
on 08/06/2017, 02:09:46 UTC
Hi here !

So, the captitalization of BTC reached 40B $ , this is nice but not huge at all compared to FIAT currencies.

My question is : with such a "low" amount of money, does the traders have real power over the Bitcoin price ? I always heared about the natural inflation, simply more demand etc... But don't you think that if a lot of early investors with huge amount of BTC could gather and have control over its price ? Or they are simply slave of the system like every one of us ?

I'm waiting for your toughts  Grin

Well that is why volatility goes down with higher marketcap, but there is also a herd mentality which is what causes bubbles and major crashes. When everyone sees the price going up they FOMO and put more money in, and when it crashes they panic sell. I think day to day traders will have less of an impact but during big events they will all act together.