My estimation is that, as part of the larger crypto op, They have got to keep the market the market looking "alive" with price action, and let a little money slosh back and forth from the pockets of the peasants. That'll keep them "spreading the good word" and doing the work of "Them" by flogging crypto to other peasants. It also works secondarily as a smoke screen for the true market, whatever that may be.

Deception is the supreme art of war.