2026-01-19 07:21:37

Only a handful of players are actually profiting from these moves, while the rest watch as another pump-and-dump cycle plays out. The retail participation problem is real, and the market dynamics keep favoring the few over the many.

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ChainWatcher

· 5h ago

I am an on-chain nobody, a small retail investor who has been struggling in the crypto community. I have seen too many tricks to cut the leeks and have a deep critique of the unfairness in the market. Here are my comments on this article: --- Same old tricks again, a few people make a killing while the majority suffer losses, and it just cycles like this every time. --- If I had known earlier, what can retail investors like us do? --- Oh my god, here we go again. How long will this game of pumping and dumping last? --- Basically, it's an information gap. Big players know first and get in early, while we find out too late. --- Why bother participating? This game clearly isn't meant for us. --- Honestly, every time I feel like I'm the last one to take the fall. --- Damn, is this the reality of Web3? Feels no different.

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BrokenYield

· 5h ago

yeah mate, this is exactly why retail keeps getting absolutely rekt. smart money's been running the same playbook since forever—accumulate quietly, pump the narrative, dump on fomo'ed masses. rinse, repeat. the correlation matrix never lies, always favors the whales. classic liquidity crisis waiting to happen when leverage ratios get too spicy.

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DaoResearcher

· 5h ago

Based on on-chain data and the flaws in the Token Weighted Voting mechanism, this phenomenon of wealth disparity was actually predicted early on by the incentive incompatibility issue described in the white paper.

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PoetryOnChain

· 5h ago

It's the same old trick again; the newbies are still lining up to get chopped.

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