if they can manipulate gold and silver price, just figure what they can do with the btc market. And just like with gold and silver, their aim is to scare little ppl out of the real value to keep them in their fiat ponzi scam. On the long term they're losing anyway with pm (looking at asian imports), so i hodl or buy both btc and pm when nice discounts appear and i've fiat surplus.

[edit] Related:
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