I wonder if Roman managed to hold on to enough BTC that he is now faced with the moral dilemma of having the funds to pay back those he promised to pay for the first hack (assuming we peg it at the USD valuation at the time, obviously, or this would be a nonsensical statement, that someone surely would have interpreted to). It was $250K worth at the time, iirc. Incredible to even be doing this math right now. God, I *hope* he still has at least several hundred BTC anymore.

Every time we have a run-up like this I always think, well, we won't get one of those again. But each one is as big or bigger (% gain) than the last. Wild. Though I would say we won't see many more of these, and this one might be the largest single % gain we'll get. Only in the sense that it has cracked mainstream, and the cracking was part of this spike. There's a study somewhere about social networks and viral adoption/acceptance and a sort of "point of no return" where the snowball is too large to stop. I'd say we're there.