{"id":74082,"date":"2026-02-26T16:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74082"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:31:44","slug":"no-bitcoin-isnt-artificially-being-kept-below-150000-by-market-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74082","title":{"rendered":"No, Bitcoin Isn&#8217;t Artificially Being Kept Below $150,000 By Market Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitwise Invest Chief Investment Officer <strong>Jeff Park<\/strong> argues <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is not being suppressed as claimed by some on social media. The issue, in fact, lies with ETF authorized participants.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Regulatory Carve-Out<\/h3>\n<p>In a detailed explanation on X, Park points out that authorized participants <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dgt10011\/status\/2026785209983619485\">operate<\/a> under a special exemption that allows them to short ETF shares without borrowing costs, capital requirements, or deadlines to close positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any AP can create shares at will by virtue of their role in ETF creation and redemption.<\/p>\n<p>This exemption isn\u2019t unique to Jane Street. <\/p>\n<p>For BlackRock\u2019s <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>) alone, nine firms have this power: Jane Street Capital, JPMorgan, <strong>Macquarie<\/strong>, <strong>Virtu Americas<\/strong>, <strong>Goldman Sachs<\/strong>, <strong>Citadel Securities<\/strong>, <strong>Citigroup<\/strong>, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50896095\/no-bitcoin-isnt-artificially-being-kept-below-150000-by-market-makers?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"No,\" bitcoin isn artificially being kept below by market makers>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitwise Invest Chief Investment Officer Jeff Park argues Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is not being suppressed as claimed by some on social media. The issue, in fact, lies with ETF authorized participants. The Regulatory Carve-Out In a detailed explanation on X, Park points out that authorized participants operate under a special exemption that allows them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-74082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}