More than people in my opinion its the events that is responsible for the change in the bitcoin price manipulation.
Please learn more about the market movement... MARKET IS VOLATILE. anything can happen at any given time, market price value can goes up and goes down dependent on the Volume of Investment posted in the market by the investors, There a lot of indicators that affects the price movement, like the issues on Banned, Scammer, Hacker's, and the never ending issues on Regulation by the government financial institution whom critical to Bitcoin Digital transaction in the market. We have no hard evidence to support such claimed that someone is behind the Bitcoin price manipulation. All are just an SPECULATION....