When one understands the uniqueness of these figures, you tend to appreciate the importance of decentralization and also why it's important that some wallet are kept locked until the market matures enough to certain level when the flooding of bitcoins into the market won't make any significant difference in the direction the market is heading.

As much as some would maintain that it would be difficult for someone to control the market, its still very much possible because what is needed is a push in a certain direction and every other market participants would fall into line.