Well, anyone saying they know a pump is coming, simply wants a self-fulfilling prophecy to come true.

That said, its so easy for the dev to make decent money by simply making a single forum post, it'd be sort of odd if he hasn't been accumulating and planning that very thing. A simple, sorry, death in family/illness/pc blew up/whatever post, and all is forgiven, coin shoots up 2-3x... money made.

Too risky for me, so would never tell anyone to buy in. Just observing what it appears like. Either that, or the dev is a kid and whatever he made so far is enough for him.