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Why do institutional holders in the US stock market hold BTC so firmly?
Warren Buffett once said, "Give me the motivation and I will know the result."
US stock institutions manage money for clients and earn a percentage management fee based on AUM, the higher the AUM, the better. So they don't rely on pump-and-dump manipulations like in the crypto world to shake out retail investors.
The incentives are different.
Retail investors in the crypto space make money by selling coins to others, which encourages malicious market making through pump-and-dump schemes. US stock institutions rely on getting clients to deposit as much money as possible; avoiding selling to earn a percentage management fee on total assets encourages a slow, steady bull market that attracts more people to invest.
Different incentives lead to different outcomes.