Bitcoin is in the biggest, non-existent bubble ever.
With less than 3% of the earth's population invested in bitcoin... it can't be a bubble.
Fortunately for bitcoin, the market manipulators do not have their biggest tool. They cannot "create" free bitcoin. Every attack costs them.
In the stock market, the plunge protection team has basically unlimited funds. The computer trading can actually make stock. How do you compete with that?
That last question is a good one. The only way I know to compete with it is to educate people on the very nature of value itself and help them formulate better perceptions in order to control their own understanding of what is and what is not valuable. Once we control our own perceptions, we can control what we're willing to buy, sell, and work for.