Every single bid and ask influences the price, yes I make larger ones sometimes but to call that manipulation is really just your arbitrary judgement of what others are doing which is identical to you just on a larger scale, anyway it's how it is, glad that you enjoy the transparency at least.
Love semantics

("A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," or "what the meaning of the word is is" approach are my favorites)
Manipulation or market moves according to your intention(s); it does not really matter. Your transparency, taken with a grain of salt (I am sure you'd recommend that approach also) is more than welcomed despite the sentiment. As a result of this overall discussion I halved my intended (future) percentage of DASH in my portfolio.
So Otoh decided to push the price down to 2$ and this is what is happening, and we are supposed to be happy for some reason?