not exactly. everyone is free to mine but with chaina as a most mining country they have made it two faced.chaina hates bitcoin but still theyare mining it and that also in a greate scale.its quite confusing to me
exactly, this was said before but i say it here again. about 2 or more years ago US has the highest hash rate in the whole worlds and by then nobody said they are controlling bitcoin.
I don't think this is how Bitcoin's price is being controlled. We are doing it. All of us, even if we've got just a few tens of bucks in our wallets, are controlling the price. But the biggest change we can see with BTC would be if the magnates of Bitcoin would start trading in mass (hundreds of thousands of $$).
ten bucks is really nothing in bitcoin market, have you ever looked at the daily trade volumes? it is 400-500 million dollars each day and an additional 700-800 million dollar in Chinese exchanges.