{"id":673055,"date":"2025-06-02T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/who-really-controls-bitcoins-price-in-2025-whales-devs-or-governments-explained\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:26:01","slug":"who-really-controls-bitcoins-price-in-2025-whales-devs-or-governments-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/who-really-controls-bitcoins-price-in-2025-whales-devs-or-governments-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Who really controls Bitcoin\u2019s price in 2025? Whales, devs or governments, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS9zdG9yYWdlL3VwbG9hZHMvdmlldy9kODVmMTczZjhlYzAwYTc5MTIwMmFlYThiNzU1NzQ2NS5qcGc=.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin may be decentralized, but its price isn\u2019t immune to the influence of whales, protocol upgrades, ETF <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rovals and global regulations.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-widget=\"explained-block-content\">\n<p><em>If anyone comes close to \u201cmoving the market,\u201d it\u2019s the whales. These are the investors holding thousands of BTC, often institutions, funds or OG holders from the early days. And in 2025, they\u2019re more active than ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The number of wallets holding over 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) has climbed to 1,455 as of May 2025, marking a renewed wave of accumulation. Some of this growth is driven by institutional players: Strategy alone now holds over 580,000 BTC (around 2.76% of total supply), while BlackRock has added Bitcoin allocations to its iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF and related portfolios.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" >General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/explained\/who-really-controls-bitcoins-price-in-2025-whales-devs-or-governments-explained?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin may be decentralized, but its price isn\u2019t immune to the influence of whales, protocol upgrades, ETF approvals and global regulations. If anyone comes close to \u201cmoving the market,\u201d it\u2019s the whales. These are the investors holding thousands of BTC, often institutions, funds or OG holders from the early days. And in 2025, they\u2019re more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/storage\/uploads\/view\/6259d082e83d20491f43075c38d970ea.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}