I don't believe, can you prove this?
What kind of news are you based, or better arguments, nothing against, but one time I was thinking that it was Bitcoin Miners Manufacturers, but when I was in Shenzhen, I saw that it's really complex to know where is this control. Then I've started to see, that there is a big fight to have this control, specially the big corporations as traditional banks are trying to pushdown the value of Bitcoin, they are trying to invest in another coins or Blockchain Projects to crash the hole system, if you see the comments of these "experts" and look to Ethereum, you will discover the real "darkside" of Ethereum and you will ask yourself how it's possible a strong community as a DASH, just lost the control of the balance of the system. Everything start at the base thing, machine, and the machines are produced in China, but who is taking the profit of this production. And do not forget the big companies of energy sector. I don't know, but one thing, I was completely sure that ETH will close this year around 450-600 USD and BTC will close around 10.000 USD,
If this is a plan, definitely, I don't know, everything start at the production of the Computer Devices, ASIC Machines and etc... the difficulty push this value and the most miners like me lost the coins for cheapest value just to pay the bills. Some guys can invest in some projects, but the decentralized idea is not more real decentralized, the answer is the fork of Bitcoin Cash, who tke the advantage of BCH and why China is completely divided about the future of Cryptocurrency.
I don't know, but anyway, everything about Blockchain is stopped at the margin of traders and credit cards companies. Many coins are going to the conversion, the government, of course, is loosing millions about taxes, and they are trying to say that Bitcoin is something illegal or something from the darkside, etc...
I think this is a big discussion for another post...
who is controlling the Bitcoin? - of course with true arguments and no speculations... I think that the answer will not be a coin.
I think that your question is: Who is controlling the Bitcoin? And who will regulate the development of Blockchain?
Maybe, you are trying to discover the direction of the Blockchain Development and how the mother of this processes will survive in this JUNGLE!
Greed is controlling bitcoin now