Gold is being manipulated as much as the rest, there are an enormous amount of paper contacts manifold more that physical gold.
This is why Bitcoin is brilliant, there is a finite amount.
The Chinese didn't clamp down on Bitcoin they clamped down on ICO's : IPO's for alt coins. The Chinese are mining Bitcoin and buying Bitcoin like No Tomorrow. People said the Internet was a flash in the pan they will be saying the same about Bitcoin.
John M'Afee from Internet virus protection fame believes Bitcoin will get as high $500,000.