ref: rpietila / others who 'knew'
Did they just have 'better' information than us in terms of an early 'nod' on the news?
Maybe this has been raised in the last few pages - I confess I haven't got time to look back - but is it not possible someone knew someone, who knew what was about to happen?
To accurately say 'it will go down to 500' is pretty good.
Was it a timed assault of a wave of selling and the timing was lucky - or was it timed FOR the news once it was obvious it was coming (if you had the right information).
Questions, questions.....
Go here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322058.0Read it. And then, when you have time, read it again.
This is a good-quality spinoff from that thread as well:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366214.0