This just seem like people looking for reason for anything, the price of BTC is set for correction it just need something to trigger it, remember when people were speculating that it was MGox trustee that was dumping the BTC on the market and later that it was Whales, people need explanation for this and now they get one
Personally, I think whales use BTC manipulation to fill bags with various altcoins...its hard for sure to tell which one will
be next Google, so they probably fill bags with everything, just in case...and they want it cheap, and BTC
is their perfect tool for that