Quote from: Last of the V8s on July 11, 2017, 08:30:16 AM

^ while we're on the subject of r0ach making occasional sense in amongst all the bollox, there's this gem, highlighted by he-who-must-not-be-named

Quote from: r0ach on June 22, 2016, 02:59:47 AM

Quote from: Monerobuyer0 on June 21, 2016, 08:59:22 PM

I lost .5 btc shorting eth

Eth is the LEAST aggregate market I've ever seen, which is why I never recommend people to short it. The price is controlled by one single guy who runs the bots on Bologniex tied to either the Ethereum developers themselves, or some entity like Goldman Sachs. Ever since Bitcoin started to rise, I watched them absorb something like 5000-10,000 BTC in Eth dumps on Poloniex just trying to prop the price up and prevent it from imploding.

The DOA event caused a dumpocalypse on them forcing them to absorb even more losses. This single entity that controls the ETh price is underwater as fuck now and probably desperate to rid himself of some of those scamtokens. I have a feeling the only reason it made it that high of value in the first place is the Eth devs themselves sent a bunch of Eth to Poloniex, then used those coins for collateral to margin long it to the moon while liquidating shoters. Dan Larimer actually talked about attempting doing that himself once in the past when BTS was in the dumpster but he chickened out. Him and Vitalik have been speaking a bit these days and maybe he gave Vitalik the idea.

http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486944

This post is over a year old. And it sounds like pure fantasy to me. Just saying.