What kind of people are capable of market manipulation?
To the best of my understanding, market manipulation can take place in a wide range of markets, from commodity, Forex to cryptocurrencies. It is not limited to any country or market type. However, the impact of market manipulation can vary widely depending on the specific context and regulatory environment in a particular location. It is generally perceived that individuals or entities with substantial financial resources, can leverage their financial clout to manipulate prices in their favor.
It is everywhere not only on those markets that you mentioned or financial market as a whole. It is not limited to one country but I believe any country has it, even if not on the same field (E.g in the financial market). Manipulation are a bad thing even if it's only small but a small one is better than the big one's because people can hardly feel it's effect.
A huge capital or money is mainly the root of these manipulations but we still can do something to prevent it. If only we won't be greedy and don't take the shady offers by these manipulators, they will not be successful with their attempts. Our lives will be much better this way. In term's of crypto market, many of us are not involved with it, like for example in Bitcoin manipulation but we are only riding it and we still can benefit with it.
It's literally everywhere, every country have that kind of market manipulation. Just imsgine this, we all know that the government there's always a toxic thing that exist, and we called it corruption by that they could just simply manipulate the market for them to cover up their mess cause people eventually question what happened to the funds so they would just simply manipulate the market, and increase the taxations. As they have the power and authority, they could easily manipulate the market as well the citizen of the country. But we being affected by that so we'll prefer to a decentralized system which is Bitcoin where the market manipulation could be profitable.