That isn't what happened. TheSwede initiated the sell-off with his comment. Had he said nothing, everyone would have expected news on Wednesday. Even you were only expecting confirmation of chips arriving and setting dates on dividents. Go look at your posts. You have completely changed your tune from just yesterday.
You're right about TheSwede that initiated the sell-off thing, that's "Step 2". Yup I changed my tune, I'm sure you know why

Blaming theswede for the selloff is really bizarre to me. Look at how innocuous his post was.
I just wanted to stop by and say that I have not been able to talk to Sam today. I do realize that "next week" is here and as soon as I have anything to report I will. I realize a "nothing to report yet" report is just that, but as soon as I hear anything it will be posted here and on BTCT.CO news section.
This was after there were tons of posts all day asking "where is the update?", "where is theswede" plus several FUD slinging posters. He elected to at least be communicative to the shareholders and I appreciate that. If he posted nothing the price would have still dropped because news was expected to come that day.
Plus its misguided to blame him. What if he were to just say "F this" and resign from PR. Then what would happen to the share price?