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The last I remember, you ascribed Bitcoin's rise to Mavrodi. How do you explain the continued heights now that his MLM scheme has collapsed?
Bitcoin's legendary rise had little to do with the clever Russian, far more with
a fat Frenchman, who is currently behind bars natural, organic growth

its not about the "legendary rise" 2013, its about the 500 runup of late 2015. stolfi and alot of others were proclaiming these days that its just about the MMM ponzi and will collapse anytime soon. and what happend? NOTHING.
Who said Sergei cashed out already? Isn't hiding huge sums of money from government bullies bitcoin's raison d' etre?
P.S. MMM websites still up, promising 100%/mo, better than Bitcoin
http://mmmglobal.org/