Sure, I mean it is increasingly apparent that Bitcoin has, as they say these days, "said the quiet part out loud" with respect to what kinds of motives really d

Sure, I mean it is increasingly apparent that Bitcoin has, as they say these days, "said the quiet part out loud" with respect to what kinds of motives really drive the stock market, and what signals its participants actually respond to. "Gainz" are swallowing "value" everywhere. Doesn't hurt that the crypto casino is open 24/7 as well. The difference with stocks, however, is that stocks don't make a big show of pretending to be decentralized. Everyone knows and acknowledges that a relative handful of well-connected actors have enough leverage to wash everyone else out of TSLA if they so chose, but for the Bitcoin cultists it's anathema to even suggest the same inexorably centralizing forces are at work. A lot of collective effort is spent on propping up the "decentralization" meme (and its accomplice, the "anonymity" meme), effort which ironically makes the proponents value their Bitcoin all the more; they want to realize a return on that work.