Is anyone else starting to become a bit worried? mod note in first post

I just joined this board after searching for "Best Cryptocurrency discussion threads"….I needed a place (other than that Social Media cesspool) to vent and learn about the latest shenanigans in the Crypto "INDUSTRY"…..

It's Sunday here in the USA (Eastern Coast), and once again I see strange doings on the crypto market front….Since the beginning of this year when the Orange Hued would-be-Fuhrer was sworn in as the 47th President, the crypto currency Market has been a joke. EVERYONE in the retail crypto trading business (except me) was literally jumping for joy when Donald Trump was elected president….they all thought we were going to see another moonshot Industry-wide.

I, however, knew better because I understood the real impact that Trump's "policies" would have on the business, not to mention the impact the man himself would have on things. As someone already posted with Rick WIlson's Book, Trump is literally one of the WORST BUSINESSMEN EVER….EVER! You don't file for 6 Bankruptcies over the course of 45+ years (including 2 in the …..CASINO BUSINESS) unless you are a special kind of idiot. His corruption and lack of ethics alone guarantees that whatever he touches, will indeed die, but not before he and his army of 3,000 lawyers ensure he will survive a tiny bit richer. His MEME coin fiasco 3 days before inauguration was the match that turned the moonshot rocket into a fiery mess…his wife's Coin was simply the dispatcher rerouting the fire trucks.

Getting back to TODAY (Sunday) and what's happening….I watched with my Sunday Morning Coffee as my portfolio ONCE AGAIN lost about 12-15%, before yo-yoing back up slightly….on SUNDAY. This has happened too often now to be a coincidence. There is some SERIOUS collusion and market manipulation going on between the Exchanges, and the LARGE HODLERs like the Investment firms and a few whales. Simply looking at Bitcoin, the amount now in the hands of super wealthy HODLERs vs Small traders and retail hodlers has swung very far in favor of the LARGE Wealthy concerns. They've shaken out a lot of the small guys and concentrated in THEIR hands a lot of BITCOIN. It's very disappointing when you think about the original VISION of Bitcoin being a "playing field leveler" and something for the "everyday" man to have to get out from under the thumb of the super-wealthy.

Other Crypto-Currencies, like the pious self righteous Cardano, continue to advance a little then DROP….advance, then drop, over and over and over again. Someone is making a crapload of money on these continuous fluctuations. Is it all these AI BOT traders arbitraging the market to death? Or is it (again) some master plan by the masters of the universe to gain total control? Because Crypto is still so Unregulated and with no real oversight, it remains a haven for scammers, and little to no recourse for victims of scammers, or people who simply make a mistake inputting a number or value.

I belive in Cryptocurrency as a great thing for the future….but it's the FUTURE itself I worry, and weep for…..

Dunkin' Donuts….I hate STarbucks.

As I said, I just joined this forum, and I don't plan on making all my posts as (seemingly) long, but honestly I am not going to hold back if I feel I have something legitimate to say. I WANT to be wrong about Crypto being corrupt, or co-opted by the usual suspects….someone PLEASE show me I am wrong. REALLY SHOW ME with evidence…..I'd be grateful

They are. A big wallet some say is the Ether Foundation sold lots of ether to stop it a few days ago.

Loads of articles across all the sites on whales making huge multi million bets aaaaaaaaand they're all winning.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends

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https://decrypt.co/310220/crypto-traders-hunting-521-million-bitcoin-whale

another half billion bet but people are trying to liquidate him. he's having to put more money in to keep it going

Ending QT could be enough

they spent billions more in Feb than last year. they haven't saved anything. They've signed the death warrants for probably millions of poor folk though.

The eggs...they fired a load of the people (in that fake cost saving) employed to actually help contain that bird flu outbreak which incidentally will probably be the real pandemic in death terms but will also come from a lab.

But it's their sh1tty agricultural practices that breed it.

Theirs no need for things to be like this, millions of the wrong people are gonna suffer/die.

The uncertainty needs to end for a decent recovery. The tariffs and unknowns are putting pressure on things. Yet on the flip side there are loads of states that are green lighting bitcoin as part of pension funds. That could be bigger than the federal wealth fund given that it’s easier to act as a state.

The cycle will now be a bit longer which is fine, however the last cycle was cut short imo due to ftx and Luna disasters, the longer the cycle the more room for something to go wrong, on the flip side a longer slower cycle could see higher returns, and it could be argued that the crypto world is much more mature and less leveraged these days, which could be seen by the way the recent hack was managed.

Im liking this guy more and more for a balanced perspective and a necessary macro view, might even sign up to his real vision thingy if it’s not expensive, anyone signed up to this?

Actually I think I found the real reason Trump is attending

ETH looking juicy. €1450 rn.

If you're afraid to buy at 1450, Jesus wept. It will make new ATH this year. The tariff fear will not last.

The chance of recession in the US has jumped up 60% according to certain analysts. And that's just with what we know now, if there are escalations or full blown tariff war it will mostly certainly get worse. And then there's the uncertainty of Trump, he's highly erratic, which is further shaking global markets.

Gold is rocketing up, as predicted, but crypto is descending - the fact that it can't make it's mind up is again not helping.

If Eth turns around, cool, but personally I wouldn't touch it unless it goes sub 1k. BTC has cemented it's status, but the fear for Eth is that it's not doing a great job and is replaceable by other platforms.