There is no such thing as manipulation for a peer to peer currency.
Traders around the world will buy if there is a perceived discount for bitcoin.
Exchanges are not peer to peer ...
Exactly. I'm afraid there's not much we can do about price manipulation and it really is disheartening. There's no way to tell what the current value of bitcoin is and even the peak price looks to have been manipulated to there.
Exactly , I agree with #turvarya . It is only a question of manipulation and the exchanges don't help the "peer-to-peer" idea.
Producers and sellers will only sell the coin on the exchange which quote them the best price.
Anyone who think the price can be manipulated, care to give the mechanic on how this can be done?
It is discussed here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/market-manipulation-how-does-it-happen-866258What is being said there is total horseshit.
Conditions to manipulate price for long term simultaneously on all exchanges do not exists.
Do you also believe the stock market can not be manipulated?
The stock market can be manipulated however it is not manipulated by the exchanges, it can potentially be manipulated by market participants (although this is very rare as the stock market is heavily regulated).
My ass, it is rare. It even happened here in Austria.
Whenever I told a people here in Austria, that the stock market can be manipulated, they told me it is not possible, since "free market and regulation and stuff"
Now, we have a court decision that says: Yes, it was manipulated. And that is just a case, where we could proof it, since people made stupid mistakes.
So, please live in your dream world, where bad things are not happening because off "free market and regulation and stuff". I am really done discussing this topic with ignorant people.
It's indeed not rare, but it's usually not the market price being manipulated, not consistently for a long time at least, that would be way too expensive! unless you are the Fed.
For example, the bad guys will manipulate a close or a fixing, on which they have a lot of derivatives settling. That way they get more return on manipulation. See the recent manipulation cases : FX or LIBOR, it all relates to fixing affecting other products, like bank customer lending rates, FX contracts...