The Litecoin market is not big enough to push Bitcoin up $15 by dropping Litecoin by $2.
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and now we see why someone was holding the BTC price back on BTCE for as long as possible.
BTC-E is not a market maker, okgox/goxobi and finex are, finex clearly showed that market makers dont plan to push price above 290$ (there would be fake walls of 15-18k being moved higher to 270-280$ in order to do that). Its just chinese retards cashing out their ponzied ltc to btc at any cost. Chill out people, shit is almost over.
Only its the major "western exchange" for converting your LTC to BTC directly - without going through USD