what's currently the "official" ATH?
$1163 ? (Bitstamp 2013)
bitstamp ATH $1163
bitfinex ATH $1175
Gox ATH $1242
Everyone says the Gox ATH was manipulated, but at the highest price it's a big psychological barrier. I'll be happy if it takes another week to go above the bitstamp ATH. I expected more of a battle to get over $1100.
The GOX price was in GOXbux that were not trading at par with the USD so any rational analysis of ATH in GOX prices needs to take that into account. The OTC market in GOXbux got more and more active around the time of the ATH and eventual bankruptcy/blow-up. People were even trading whole GOX accounts for months before that also. Up to 9 months before the ATH GOX fiat withdrawls were having 'problems', i.e. slow, so when the pyramid scheme finally exhausted greater fools there were no USD to be had for withdrawl at all, only GOXbux. How to price a USD ATH in those circumstances is really just a fool's errand.
I think all these different ATH numbers are great because it shows what lemmings all the traders are ... they are lost without some psychological number to pin their charts (and bets) upon. The diffuse ATH situation is leaving a clear run (bumpy not spiky) to >$1200 now methinks.