BTW, the timing of this may have partially been caused by my first "withdrawal request"... I had consistently rolled over my earnings back into shares. The Saturday before the stoppage is when I put in for my first Bitcoin withdrawal. I was really just testing it more than anything. The timing was interesting. If I really was the biggest investor/gambler, and "John Carley" thought I was done investing and ready to start withdrawing, then it could have been a bugout trigger for him.

Just curious, any other big investors in here?
I have joined back in summer with 4K (earned in 6 months of mining LTC / VTC with 4 computer rigs, they've cost me 10K, now I am full of R9290x video cards and can't even sell them at half price) and earned (by totally reinvesting profit) around 8.2 K until last week. Also have put my 1st withdrawal for the initial 4K last Friday since that was my ROI day.
Most of my anger it due the fact that it all collapsed on the ROI day ... what are the odds of that. Feel like the universe is against me now, took tomorrow day off, need to recover mentally.
Sounds like that weekend could have been a perfect storm of withdrawal requests, perhaps due to the low BTC price at the time, and that was as good a time as any to jump ship.