if you have a marketcap of $5k any ass-hole can manipulate it, pretty much like a insecure network, any retard with a single asic can attack it
No, this is flat-out wrong. I'm really tired to repeat it again, market cap is irrelevant, even if it is equal to mere $5,000. If every trader has no more than $0.01 at his disposal and all $5,000 are traded, how can such a market be manipulated? And still less can it be manipulated if the trading volume by far exceeds the market cap. On the other hand, if someone (or a group of someones, lol) controls a significant part of
trading volume (not even the whole market cap), no matter how large the market cap itself is, they can still manipulate the market. What matters is wealth distribution and the amount of coins actually traded (specifically trading volume, because one coin can change many hands) relative to the total amount of coins (since the lesser this ratio the lesser amount of coins would be required to corner the market)...
So even if the Bitcoin market cap grows a million times, this won't change a thing
the point is that every trader will have more than 0.01
if i buy slowly the whole $5k market cap , then i can dump the price and causing a panic dump, after that i rebuy all my coin at cheaper rate