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The price of bitcoin appears to be coming back from the horrors of 2022, but John Griffin – a finance professor at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business – says he’s not convinced this is happening naturally, and he wonders if BTC is somehow being manipulated. John Griffin on Bitcoin: It’s Being Manipulated! Bitcoin rose to prominence in late 2021. Achieving a new all-time high of $68,000 per unit in November of that year, it was thought by many that bitcoin...

Bitcoin is currently trading in the mid-$6,000 range. While it had expanded all the way to $6,800 during today’s early morning hours, it appears to have settled down a bit and taken a comfortable seat at around $6,400 during the time of writing.Bitcoin Has Seemingly Recovered SomewhatBitcoin is not alone in its present ascension. The currency is joined by the likes of Ethereum, Ripple and bitcoin cash, all of which have spiked by as much as 22 percent in the last 48 hours. The crypto downfall...

Another bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal is in the garbage. This time, the application came by way of two companies known as Wilshire Phoenix and NYSE Arca Inc., both of which wanted to “mix bitcoin and short-term treasuries.”Arca Is Pushed AsideThe proposal from both ventures was immediately dashed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), thereby removing another opportunity for crypto enthusiasts to trade professionally. A regulator commented in a statement:The Commission...

A class-action suit against both Tether and cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex alleging that these parties manipulated the bitcoin price back in 2017 has been withdrawn.Tether and Bitfinex Are In a RutNote that this doesn’t mean the lawsuit has been dropped or taken out of commission. Rather, it was withdrawn and then resubmitted through a new plaintiff in an entirely different jurisdiction.Both companies have been under fire for some time when in 2018, University of Texas finance...

Analysts say that the presence of whales is about to get a lot stronger considering the bitcoin price is slated to rise heavily in the coming years.We’re Continuing to Feel the Influence of WhalesWhales are a big problem in the crypto space in that they can heavily influence bitcoin’s behavior and increase its volatility. Whales are individuals who carry a lot of crypto in single accounts. Whenever they move this money, they tend to move much of what they own from one wallet to another. This...

Not long ago, it was reported that a user of the cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex was responsible for the manipulation that ultimately caused bitcoin to reach the $20,000 mark in December of 2017. However, the company is now rejecting this report, saying that it was built on false evidence and a “house of cards.”Bitfinex: The Report Is Not TrueThe report was co-authored by John Griffin, a University of Texas finance professor who issued a separate report last year first making claims...

Most of the crypto community, especially Bitcoin hodlers, are almost always hoping for a spike like the one that happened in 2017, which saw the king coin hit its current all-time high of $20,000. Even though a terribly bearish market followed some months after, the spike is still often referred to as not just a game-changer, but a point where Bitcoin needs to reach again, to break out of its frequent periods of disappointing consolidation. However, some analysts have suggested that the...

Just when it seemed like it could not get worse for the Bitcoin HODLERS, the BTC price plunges further. According to data from Messari, BTC dropped below a key support level of $8,000, touching the $7,800 mark. As we published earlier, the BTC price plunged by over $1,000 to settle below $8,500. Now another support has been breached.The biggest crypto has now entered the $7,000 region for the first time since June amid a severe $30 billion sell-off in the crypto market. In just 5 days, the...