basically, Empire Market was the most recent edition of the Silk Road. The admin took all the Bitcoins and ran. Guessing it was a few millions of dollars worth of Bitcoins. So maybe he dumped them yesterday and that's what caused the price to drop?
Think we'll see the price walk back up over, if this is the reason. Seller is gone!
I seriously did not understand your comparison with the empire market exit scam and the silk road, hope you are aware that silk road was a dark market store and the owner did not scam anyone but since the products sold in the store were not legal and hence he was caught and all or most of his coins were confiscated by the authorities and the coins were auctioned off.
To be frank this is the first time i am hearing about this and i do not think that this exit scam has anything to do with the correction.