the other possibility is eligius or ghash are selling the coins they mined. they may be panicing that the time when ixcoin generation subsidy drops to zero is getting too close to risk further loss.
Right but that a year from now so why put it all for sale all at once? And why use Only Vircurex when you know people are running from now and they're freezing Bitcoin deposits? Why not take that ixc out of there to be safe and sell it on Cryptsy, at least part of it.
And why sell it on Virxurex at all when they'll freeze your BTC once you do?
Makes ZERO sense. They could sell it here on these boards without killing the price and thus get way less profits.