Title: Help me understand why this strategy would fail.<p>Let&#x27;s assume I got 100M$ with me.<p>Step 1: Purchase 70M$ worth of bitcoins.<p>Step 2: Spend 30M$ marketing bitcoins as the next big thing<p>Given that bitcoin is a pretty good product, the additional marketing would help convince people to invest in it.<p>Step 3: Convince 1000 other 100M$+ net-worth individuals to do this.<p>Step 4: Let it surge. Wait till the combined worth of 1000 investments above is &lt;30% of the market. Pull out.<p>At this point there is about 30B$ of marketing budget. 3 times of what Samsung spent on marketing in 2016.<p>Fake news, facebook &amp; twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it&#x27;s possible to do something like this. At this point, it&#x27;s worth mentioning that &#x27;Bitcoin is a great product&#x27; unlike the former case.<p>Doing above is possible with any public stock but it&#x27;s probably illegal. With Bitcoin I am assuming there is no such check.<p>So what&#x27;s stopping people from doing this?<p>Anyone else thinks this is how it&#x27;s happening already?<p>Related article:<p>[1000 people own 40% of the market]<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-12-08&#x2F;the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market
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