everyone knows this is purely speculative/silk road driven
I can't even tell you how wrong that statement is...
Don't you think it was a single-player pump-n-dump operation? Slow, persistent buying over two months to build up confidence, then a massive dump.
A dump quickly countered so that the trend lines hold, that was not rational assumming accumulation goal. There were others - but this is perhaps the most obvious. But I think that he did not actually profit from this - he did not predict that the reaction will be so strong. I hoped he'd dump this dump as well.