You can control the price by scaring the shit out of people through various regulatory tactics. What is stopping them from banning P2P currency, and pushing a massive propaganda campaign to make Bitcoin public enemy #1 in the minds of the brainlets out there?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/doctor-bitcoin-jailed-for-selling
These people deeply embed themselves in the market - look, they finally got to Binance and installed their own puppet. I think we need to be a little more skeptical over the lengths these people will go to protect the systems they have spent decades building.