Maybe BTC has become a big poker table, with people exchanging chips, new ones sitting down, others cashing out.
Agree with that. However, it appears some of the big boys are playing the Crypto market including Goldman Sachs. The evidence for this was a while ago, before CME started the trading of Bitcoin, where a “planted” news story regarding China brought Bitcoin down from about $10,000 to between $4000 to $5000, as I recall. Goldman and friends are sure to “juice” their Bitcoin holdings at some point with stories legitimizing Bitcoins use.