Crypto feels like a discarded pawn—when the US stock market surges, it doesn’t follow, but when the market crashes, it drops right along. So many people have left the space, and even more are just lying flat. Why is it that when the US stock market tanks, crypto still slides so smoothly? This move is really hard to understand. The only explanation might be data manipulation. The circulating amount of Bitcoin on exchanges far exceeds 21 million.