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Crypto Manipulation**
Crypto markets are easily manipulated due to low regulation, fake volume, and high leverage.
Common tricks:
- **Wash trading**: Bots fake volume to look popular
- **Pump & dump**: Groups hype a coin on Telegram/X, pump price, then dump
- **Spoofing**: Fake big orders to trick traders, then cancel
- **Whale games**: Big players crash price with dumps or liquidate leveraged traders
Real cases (2024–2025):
- FBI busted 18 people for $25M pump-and-dump
- Gotbit sentenced for faking billions in volume
- Binance often accused of spoofing with massive fake walls
Result: Retail gets rekt, whales and insiders win.
How to survive:
- Avoid low-cap meme coins
- Use on-chain data, not hype
- Keep leverage low or HODL spot off exchanges
Manipulation is real, but dying slowly as regs (US bill, EU MiCA) kick in. Stay sharp.$BTC
