Quote from: ag346 on November 05, 2013, 01:29:34 PM

Is there any published information or reports on whether the majority of bitcoins are concentrated in the hands of a small number of accounts?

Also, I don't understand how the miners could potentially be a part of price manipulation other than possibly hoarding the currency, which would seem to make it so that they cannot recover their investments any time soon.

Maybe this helps:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321265.0

and if interest some known facts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=311328.msg3346240#msg3346240