It's manipulated, yes. But how deep do the strings of control and manipulation stretch? Do they reach all the way into Bitcoin's core?

Let's see how well this new BIP102 is received and we'll have our answer!

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I am not sure but in my thinking what if a person/company buys a 1 million btc with a price of let's say $300. If that amount is enough to pump up the btc price to a certain amount then sell it again to that higher price, then how much profit they would make. Then dumping again that amount of btc will sure to drop price. If that is happening in the process then I can say bitcoin is a manipulated coin. Not controlled but manipulated.

it definitely is manipulated.

All it takes is a few guy who own a ton of it to sell buy more at the same time
for it to move a bunch. Then people get spooked and it causes panic selling by others.

If you are talking about the exchange price, then yes.

maybe, I hear from people if bitcoin prices in a market can be manipulated by someone, if you have a lot of money you can regulate the market to your advantage

Not just Bitcoin but almost everything is manipulated by some degree. Bitcoin is still small and trade is not under harsh regulations so it is relatively easy to manipulate but as it grows that would be more and more expensive to do.

It's a sad state but yes bitcoin can be manipulated,just like in the real world,those who have more had a big share and had what to say about the state of bitcoin,but as long as they are there to protect every body's interest we are ok it;s just the way it is

The answer is yes and it is very obvious and also hearn showed and revealed it, dont forget why we stuck within the range of $392 - $370 it is because of what he did.

not exactly manipulated, just more fragile.... as theres no longer orders of 2000-5000 coins per order line to create resistance.
exchanges are not hoarding 1m coins of customers funds anymore..

now most order lines are decimals to 100 coins at most.
and most exchanges probably hold 10k-100k of customers funds at most

so whales have it easy to eat up orders compared to 2 years ago..

its what happens when people lose trust in exchanges and people stop trading on them,
its what happens when the price is not $2-$3 or $80-$90 where it was a healthier risk to throw more coins at an order without caring.. but not so much now

so there is less coin on the markets to stabilize the price when someone buys or sells more than average

seems the price started going down when forbes released this
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/01/28/legislature-says-no-to-bitcoin-tax-payments/#1bc38088b6ad

Why do you say manipulation? bitcoin is indeed a coin, right?