To me the hardest thing to get past with crypto markets (besides the, in my opinion, lack of a real use case besides speculation) is just how manipulated the market is by a handful of major players. I don't think most people that are used to regulated US financial markets realize just how much wash trading and tape painting goes on in th…
To me the hardest thing to get past with crypto markets (besides the, in my opinion, lack of a real use case besides speculation) is just how manipulated the market is by a handful of major players. I don't think most people that are used to regulated US financial markets realize just how much wash trading and tape painting goes on in there, but there are good accounts that do excellent forensic work through things like wallet tracking and it's a massive dynamic.
To me the hardest thing to get past with crypto markets (besides the, in my opinion, lack of a real use case besides speculation) is just how manipulated the market is by a handful of major players. I don't think most people that are used to regulated US financial markets realize just how much wash trading and tape painting goes on in there, but there are good accounts that do excellent forensic work through things like wallet tracking and it's a massive dynamic.