what!?!? Started pump&dump or started natural growth??
There are already posts about this in other places mate, but i'll help you out here, it seems pretty much natural, fitting in with the last time this happened (the welcome pretty much matched too, this has been long awaited)
It seems that over in china they have been buying in bulk bitcoins for whatever reason, just check the other forums and google it, i'm sure you'll come up with something