So, as many of you are painfully aware, bitcoin crashed around 30% over a couple of days, reportedly due to regulatory pressures in Asia, and a potential ban in China due to energy wastage and tax evasion risks etc. Reports suggest that China contributes as much as 70% of the worldwide hashing power, and yet we only saw a 30% drop.
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Report: PBoC Quashes Bitcoin Mining Ban Rumor in ChinaFurthermore, we saw 30%+ drops in other cryptos, even unminable, non-decentralized ones. So, conspiracy theorists, why do you think bitcoin
really suffers these sporadic crashes, could it be large-scale market manipulation? Or is it simply FUD leading to a wide-spread panic selling?
Well, the way i see it, there are a lot of alibis that can be used today. Some will say it's because of the Chinese new year and other holidays, then, there's the price manipulations. Then there's another reason caused by greedy weak handed people that only came for greed and when the prices went down they decided to cutt lossess or simply take profits or panic selling. This is because they do not have enough understanding about how things work in the crypto world.