the recent pump of iota, was the reason for the pump the rumors of new exchanges or was it just usa peopole buying iota before getting shown the door soon? or was it both? rumors and americans buying?
I think it is more a recognition of iota's development progress in both tech side and business side. -
https://forum.iota.org/t/publicly-announced-iota-real-world-projects-tracker/1820. It takes time for the news to propagate.