La ING inca nu sunt probleme, inafara de faptul ca a inceput sa le pice sistemul ).

So, lets play this out.

The top pools decide to blacklist the BitFinex theft addresses (BFTA). Let's say the top 5. Looking at bc.info (I know it's not the best place to get info but whatever), the top 5 pools have about 70.6% of the hash rate over the past 4 days. So any blocks created by them will not include transactions from the BFTA.

But wait, there is still @30% of the network to deal with. As soon as they find a block, transactions from the BFTA are included.

Never fear, the top 5 pools aren't finished yet! They ignore blocks from the puny 30% and refuse to build on them. Now we have miners 51% "attacking" the Bitcoin network to blacklist some coins. I'm sure that won't cause any problems.

The thief probably isn't stupid either. He starts including huge miner's fees (multiple bitcoins per transaction) to include his transactions in the block chain. The small pools keep building their chain earning tons of bitcoins from fees (which are melted into the coinbase rewards). The smaller miners start upping their hash power with their new found income!

We now have two viable chains. One with fungibility, one without. Hey, Bitcoin is like Ethereum now! Exchanges list both coins (they love getting those trading fees, don't they)! BTCa and BTCb can be traded against each other. The free market decides which properties are more valuable. Hilarity ensues.

Hey, after this, we can hard fork both forks with bigger blocks and have four chains. BTCa1mb4eva, BTCa8mb, BTCb1mb4eva, BTCb8mb. The more the merrier!

I can't wait for miners to decide to fuck with the network over some contentious issue. I'm sure, as businessmen, they are ready to assume the risk that they will be mining worthless tokens in the hopes of picking the chain that the market prefers! No risk, no reward, amirite?

So what you're saying is until now, miners could afford to make less money, but now that they're stuck with all the new HW, they have to get serious? Is that the gist of it, or am I missing something?
Chinese exchanges are in business to make money. Miners going broke doesn't add any new tools to the exchanges' manipulation arsenal. If they could manipulate the price, they're already doing it.

If they could, why didn't they do it before their hardware became unprofitable, to simply boost their profits?
And why would anyone invest in a virtual asset which could be so easily manipulated?

The market can be irrational way longer than your shorts can. That on top that the market does not seem to be overheated at the moment.

wow that pump 

What will be the next movie in this weekend?

Hey, look, it's perfectly symmetrical!

When the market is being controlled by literally one deep pocket whale or a small consortium, it's gonna be a while.  They will take their time, keep short squeezing and selling into strength until all interest in the market is exhausted.  Then they will dump.

Could be weeks before it all plays out.  Check back at the end of the year.

I'm out. I'll get in on the next pullback, even if that's $100 higher than here. This very well could be a bubble to $1000+, but this is a parabola and I'm jumping off!

wow! where do you find such detailed info?

those 18k are definitely not holding since 250