US GOVERNMENT Launches Criminal Investigation into Cryptocurrency Price Manipulation
Every market has price manipulation. But the crypto market has anyone (without large amounts of cash to do so) that can learn Python and write code to have a bot trade for them. Obviously the larger whales and financial institutions are already doing this. The thing is some governments want things to "appear" to be fair and they certainly don't like the idea of small players having access to investing nor the use of bots.
A great review (Part I) by Data Dash about what happens in markets and details regarding Market Manipulation:
- Pump & Dumps
- Market Makers
- Bots
- Wash Trading
- Spoofing
See Vincent talk about this issue here: