Traditional investment institutions influence and even manipulate the price of bitcoin. Even though everyone agrees that bitcoin is decentralized enough that it can't be manipulated easily, the fact is that there is always someone or an institution that can do so.
Ok. So do you have some kind of a further point? Many of us likely realize that there is always going to be some manipulations in markets, and likely BIGGER players (or even those who are trying to trade an asset or to trade other assets that might correlate to an asset) are incentivized to manipulate prices as much as they are able to, if they believe that they have good chances to profit from such manipulation.. whether they profit within the targeted manipulated asset or some potentially correlated asset.
Sure the BIGGER and more liquid an asset, then the more difficult it will be to manipulate the asset - but at the same time, there can still be ways in which weak points could be identified - and incentives could still be great to achieve small moves in any asset - and we likely realize that very large players have already figured out ways to make stupendous profits on very small percentage moves in an asset/currency class (such as forex trading) if they can figure out the price direction that is likely to move in advance... but still they might have some plays that they attempt to make that are more certain than other plays, but still NOT have 100% assurance that the bets that they make might not end up backfiring on them at some point.... maybe falling in line with the concept that markets sometimes being able to stay irrational way longer than any of us is able to stay solvent.
For sure there are some ways that Bitcoin is relatively "small" as an asset class and can be manipulated, but it still has a very decent amount of liquidity and also some kinds of properties (including abilities to directly possess it) that create some unique qualities that can end up changing the calculations in regards to ways that it might be able to be manipulated or even to be able to leverage other projects, including debt, various shitcoins, perhaps legitimate projects and even scams.
So how can blanket statements about whether bitcoin is manipulatable or not be contextualized beyond merely blanketedly asserting that manipulation exists or does not exist?