" Anyone who claims the bitcoin price is in any way organic, or follows real-world events, is simply talking nonsense."
I don't understand what do you mean by nonsense, LOL, even pre pandemic, bitcoin is one of the best asset we have today and obviously, it's a investors haven, so to speak. Organic or not, people are going to invest on it, regardless if there are FUD's and government attacks. And remove the Covid-19 pandemic, I think we are still going to see the price hitting 5 digits, in my opinion.
I believe that he was pertaining to the pump and dump of bitcoin price recently which I believe somehow have point because the volume when BTC pump is almost equal to the volume when it dumps and it happens in a short period of time. There is no way that organic transaction will be changing in that kind of behavior.
But in overall, Bitcoin really benefiting from this pandemic because most of the institutional traders are moving from falling stock market in to crypto so that they can save there assets from liquidation.