I guess there is absolutely nobody that ignored the current situation anyway, hence the price fall. I mean think about it, as soon as this news hit, we have seen the situation and that is the greatest thing ever. I know that not everyone thinks this way, but we have definitely seen the crash right afterwards so I do not think that its unrelated, it would be impossible for it to be unrelated. Whenever bitcoin starts to go up just a bit, there are news from all around the news and all from different reason that ends up crashing it. Which is why I have %100 trust that there are a lot of people who loves to see it fall.
You are right, many parties to the bitcoin price crash and want to lower it to the lowest point, because they want to buy it at that price and they are also hidden investors, their job is only to panic investors to emphasize the lowest bitcoin price, so don't respond to bad news and more not see news if when bitcion price crashes.