Regulations saved the companies in those stock markets, not the stock market itself. The companies that leveraged their positions insanely actually lost a ton of money when the stock market crashed and right after that got saved by the regulations and goverments and they reinvested when the market was crashed and of course the new money coming in fixed a bit of the stock market which took time but the people in those markets actually lost a ton of money. So if cryptocurrency ever gets regulated I am 100% sure that whales will be saved whenever something bad happens and we will be the one thrown under the bus.
with regulation will certainly increase investor confidence. moreover there is legality from government, which will be safer. and it is true that whales will lose space to move. that means market will return to health
I'm not sure why people think regulation on crypto market will be same as regulation in stock exchange. It's completely different environment and what worked in stock exchange may or may not work in crypto market due to high volatility. I don't think whales will just go away. Regulation may give people an illusion of more security.
Almost all active investors of Crypto Market are anxious about the issue on regulation by government financial agency, they have fear on the Regulation rule that will be impost on Crypto Market investors? But, i am optimistic on that it will be more beneficial to the crypto investors once this issue is address. lets monitor and remain confident on crypto currency digital transaction, its a decentralized platform, safe and easy to manage, the proof of which, if we look on the EUROPEAN countries, some are now welcoming openly the Crypto transaction.
Personally, I have never really had any issues with regulation, knowing that we will only be deceiving ourselves to think that regulation is not something that won't happen eventually. We have seen the shape that this market has drifted to with the way things have been without law, a lot of scammers doing whatever they like, manipulations of the highest order in the market, with all these things not being a possibility in the stock market as a result of regulation.
Regulation will not stop anything from thriving as long as it is done well, it will only help improve the space into being a better one. It is obvious most humans need law, otherwise, we just have the ability to not do things right in the absence of law which is always bad.