It's much easier to manipulate the price up than to keep it down. This could have a lot to do with the hash battle. BTC/BCH flippy miners default to proof-of-dev & proof-of-troll
I believe this is just a speculative increase as adoption continues. The same way BTC did before it was declared broken. I really don't believe this is manipulation.
No. Too much volume. BTC tanked because fees went sky high. The proof is how much people were using BTC to purchase things, and then the 80% drop after 50.00 per transaction fees.
I think it was pumped up to avoid a flippening. The only evidence I have is price action and history of miners moving back and forth but it's pretty intriguing if you look closely.
I have been thinking the same thing, though no proof as you allude to. tether printing ramped up at the same time as well. also i think EDA was an economics disaster
It should be even Stephan across the board. Pools won't 51% attack because miners will ditch it the second they pull any shady buisiness. Demonizing miners doesn't win hash wars.
Half the planet gets it in one order, the other half in the other order. If a miner finds a block before getting the order correct they get orphaned by ~half of the other miners.
Rappidly broadcast two of the same transactions in opposite order from relay nodes on opposite sides of the planet, rinse repeat. Nodes have to constantly reorder wasting bandwidth.
Price is first because of speculation of the adoption. If adoption never happens, the price will tank. It if does, it will continue to go up. BTC didn't get to 20,000 because of adopt
BTC's utility crashed. Therefore the market crashed. If it didn't there wouldn't even be BCH. It crashed because the utility crashed, not because it was overbought.