There are organized groups with lots of money that regularly pump and dump various coins. I like Darkcoin and I wrote an article on my blog about it, but this whole price increase is very reminiscent of prior pumps and dumps a.k.a Blackcoin. Yeah, I know Darkcoin has great fundamentals, but don't tell me that is why we went up to 0.01 in a day. That is BS!
Can't say I disagree, but even BTC gets periodic PnDs. The difference is recovery and very very few coins can do it.
What is the typical BTC volume of a PnD altcoin? The total # of available DRKs in play are a big difference compared to others.