yeah, and you framed it in such a way, either to "protect" yourself from all kinds of arguments or because you don't want to face your flawed logic.
CME futures, leveraged ETFs, etc. are just another place for selling BTC. for shorting your precious coins. your so-called "big guys" now can and will manipulate markets. it's those guys who pumped gold 1200% in 1980s and then dumped it for 71%. they are doing it live again while gold is blowing off top (and the top is near, most likely).
so big, much guys, yaay:
but this time is much worse because of gazillions of COVID dollars that inflated the economy, bubbles across all the industries, and 2-3 generations of people who were conditioned to believe "all dips are buying opportunities".
as I write this news of the regional banks' crisis is hitting the fan.
imagine now all your big guys can fkn short the sh!t out of crapto and they can do it comfortably, cuz now they have the resources AND the instruments. on top of that, they have herds of sheeps who be their exit liquidity and fill their shorts on the way to Valhalla.
next year will be remembered as a liquidity crisis year, no one is gonna care about the orange coin because everyone will be running for their lives into some more serious issues.