If you've been around the cryptosphere, you've probably heard both camps on whether BTC is manipulated. Many say it's the "weak hands", others blame large institutions, while other's say it's all that MT GOX guy doing another dump? What do you think? Is it manipulated? Please include your reasoning on the matter.
Bitcoin market is a pretty huge market for manipulation and a single person can never manipulate it that's for sure. So it can be a group of big whales or institutions manipulating the price or it can also be the rumours that are spread very quickly in the social media that affects the bitcoin price pretty badly sometimes.