That's kinda of ironic... your claim is a mistake newbies make too. Bitcoin price doesn't depend on mining at all. It's mining that depends on bitcoin price. Because of difficulty adjustments, bitcoin inflation is fixed (currently BTC25 every 10 minutes). As bitcoin price goes up, mining becomes more profitable and more people start to mine. As price goes down, it becomes less profitable and people stop mining. You can't push bitcoin price up by just mining more and more, because adding more mining power will just push the difficulty up and make mining not profitable any more. And miners can't demand a specific price for their bitcoins on the market, because the bitcoins they produce are a tiny fraction of the bitcoins actually traded, and any high price they ask will be undercut by people who aren't mining.