Institutional manipulation Node providers

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Ah so you are one of them.

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48

Nope like I said, Im done here. Ill let the people who matter deal with it. (Not me).

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49

three options
1.So the best case scenario is they are artificially inflating trading volumes?
2.Market makers would mean they are getting a fee from coinbase?
3.Manipluating ICP prices

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I think itā€™s 3, they want to keep ICPā€™s price as low as possible so they can earn more ICP from the node rewards.

51

The only reason they would want to do this is to force a take over of the internet computer?

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52

SBF also tried to take control of ICP before he went to jail, I bet there are plenty of others with the same plan.

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53

Another 58,000 ICP sent to that address 11 hours ago from the same sending address , not sure what that means, probably just splitting up another bigger lump across accounts by adding a bit more ready to dump

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Thatā€™s just a conspiracy theory, and I didnā€™t have to spend a single cent to get ICP.

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Guys I actually think its longs they are doing not shorts.
Chat gpt can explain better than I canā€¦.

  1. Longs create artificial buy pressure ā€” then guaranteed forced selling

  • Opening a leveraged long pushes price up or at least creates upward demand in the order book.

  • But when price drifts down, those same longs get liquidated, and liquidation = forced sell orders.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: So a whale can create the sell pressure they want later by building fragile long positions now.

Shorts donā€™t work this way:

  • When you short, your entry itself creates sell pressure ā€” but if price goes sideways, nothing else happens.

  • Thereā€™s no cascade of additional selling.

:chart_decreasing: Long liquidation cascades are stronger because:

  • The larger the long, the more violent the forced selling.

  • Few shorts = no counter-liquidation on the way up.

:coin: 2. Leverage lets you control price with minimal real capital

Letā€™s say you have $1M to influence the market.

  • Shorting $1M means you actually sell $1M worth of tokens.

  • Going 50Ɨ long means you can control $50M of open interest with that same $1M.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: That $50M of long exposure will cause a huge liquidation cascade later if price moves down even 2%.
:backhand_index_pointing_right: You get outsized impact for small capital.

Shorts donā€™t give you that kind of multiplier effect on downside pressure ā€” longs do, indirectly, through liquidation.

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