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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.
In recent months, there have been a multitude of attempts to push BTC prices below $360, $380 and $400... and really with only limited and short -lived success.. those efforts to push prices down have been based on a lot of propaganda that just is losing its effects... scaling propaganda, etc... and the pressures on BTC prices has continued to be upwards, rather than downwards.