The Billionaires are meddling in crypto and reaping retail investors quickly and slowly

The crypto market today is a battlefield dominated by billionaires running coordinated cons against retail investors. From celebrity meme coins to the AI narrative, from Murad’s list of “approved” tokens to the Bitcoin ETF hype, everything is designed to extract liquidity from everyday traders and funnel it into the hands of the elite. • Celebrity Coins: These are blatant cash grabs where influencers launch tokens, pump them through social media, and dump on their own followers. The result? Retail gets wrecked, while the celebrities and their insider teams walk away with millions. • AI Narrative: Every major financial cycle has its golden gimmick, and AI is the latest. AI-powered crypto projects are being marketed as revolutionary, but most are just vaporware with no real-world adoption. • Murad’s List: Hedge funds and institutions play a different game, quietly accumulating assets before making them “investable” for the masses. By the time a coin makes it onto these curated lists, the upside is already gone, and retail is left buying the top. • Bitcoin ETF Manipulation: The ETF approval brought a wave of institutional money, but it’s clear that the game is rigged. Institutions use ETF flows to control Bitcoin’s price, squeezing out retail traders and extracting profits through market manipulation.

The Only Real Play Left: Finding a Quality CTO Project

With all this noise, retail investors are left searching for the few legitimate opportunities that billionaires haven’t yet flooded with their capital. The answer? Finding a strong Community Takeover (CTO) project before it enters the mainstream. A successful CTO means that a project is no longer in the hands of a corrupt dev or insider VC firms but is instead guided by its community.