Can I get your latest theory on how China caused this price rise please?
Hard to tell...
The rise from 200 to 250 over the last 10 days may have been just a recovery from the crash of 2015-01-13 (like the recovery after the 2014-10-04 crash). The rise today seems to be due to the Coinbase news, apparently led by Bitfinex.
So far the price got back to the trend it followed for most of Nov-Dec 2014. Let's see what it will do next.
By the way, I still don't know what caused the mini-bubble that started on 2014-05-20. It may have been driven by the West, for all I know. But that demand may have evaporated between August and October.
look at prices again, we are in 280 level already.
And the prices started to rise before the Luna thing. I guess the GEMNI thing started it.
And how explain LTC jumping 50% by sunday?