• MkohMkoh
      ·08-02 22:17

      When the Whales Own the Pond: Bitcoin’s Liquidity Question

      Bitcoin has always sold itself as digital gold for the masses. Open to anyone. Unstoppable. Owned by the people. Yet look at the numbers and a different picture emerges. Roughly twenty thousand addresses control about sixty-two percent of the supply. The biggest of those often belong to exchanges, ETF custodians, and a handful of corporations. Still, the concentration is real. And that raises an old question Warren Buffett has asked in different words for years: if only a few large holders matter, who is left to buy when they decide to sell? The optimistic case starts with market structure. Bitcoin trades around the clock on dozens of exchanges. Spot volumes still run into the billions most days, even if they have cooled from earlier peaks. Order books on the bigger platforms can absorb mi
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      When the Whales Own the Pond: Bitcoin’s Liquidity Question
    • MkohMkoh
      ·08-02 22:17

      When the Whales Own the Pond: Bitcoin’s Liquidity Question

      Bitcoin has always sold itself as digital gold for the masses. Open to anyone. Unstoppable. Owned by the people. Yet look at the numbers and a different picture emerges. Roughly twenty thousand addresses control about sixty-two percent of the supply. The biggest of those often belong to exchanges, ETF custodians, and a handful of corporations. Still, the concentration is real. And that raises an old question Warren Buffett has asked in different words for years: if only a few large holders matter, who is left to buy when they decide to sell? The optimistic case starts with market structure. Bitcoin trades around the clock on dozens of exchanges. Spot volumes still run into the billions most days, even if they have cooled from earlier peaks. Order books on the bigger platforms can absorb mi
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      When the Whales Own the Pond: Bitcoin’s Liquidity Question