I guess it was a pump and dump after all.  I was a little surprised as I'm used to P&Ds happening over a shorter period of time, but this stretched out over a month.  I did know something weird was going on as all the trading activity was happening at Kucoin only.  It sure seemed suspicious that it also happened during the fallout from the hack as well.  Prices going up during a security breech was suspicious as hell.  If I wanted to play conspiracy theorist, I would say that whoever was behind the hack was also behind the pump.  Ah well, welcome to the crypto world.

With that said, I don't think the prices will dip much further.  The prices are nearing pre-pump levels, so it's unlikely to go much further down unless some bagholders just want out.  A rebound will happen sooner or later, but the exchanges will first need to re-enable deposit/withdrawals for this to happen (HitBTC is still offline for example).  Hopefully the fallout from the hack gets resolved soon.

For anyone holding, it might be a good idea to sign up for the child chain that's coming and be prepared to sit on KICK until everything blows over.