what are you on about?
the way they published it is all part of the subject, we are studying sentiment, manipulation, fundamentals, etc......
this is what they said.... that is a fact, and it is important.

You got to love Mark Karpeles.

Here's a man who doesn't mind taking the entire world (well: btc world) with him on the way down, as long as it buys him an extra day or two of breathing room.

Sometimes I think E.Mucus is right: bitcoiners are among the most psychopathic creatures on earth.

(I don't really agree. But we have our fair share of psychos, i'll say that much.)

The news was that Gox is imploding and Russia banned bitcoins.

(Unlike China, Russia actually did BAN them.)

But keep in mind. The idea of trading is to make money. So when whale daytraders, or any one trying to make money on swings, hears bad news... they tend to sell. Hopefully they sell before everyone else does. Smashing 1700BTC sell orders into the buy walls is a great way to make others panic and sell too. Then, at the bottom, trickle buys bring things back up and the people who bought and sold at the right spots make mad profits. Those who didn't time their orders right get fucked.

So, in a sense, the news did not cause the price crash. Obviously Gox is not particularly relevant since it's been a long time since it had 80% market share, lol. And the people who sold, were not necessarily selling because they all of a sudden decided "This news will have a HUGE effect on BTC, it is the end of BTC as we know it!" It was more like "Other people are probably going to sell on this news, so if I sell, I'll profit!" Others sold because they panicked. Still others sold because they wanted to cash out anyways and figured that price might go lower in the mid-term future so now was their best bet. There is no such thing as single cause->effect when it comes to market psychology. The same event might cause different people to sell for different reasons.

I witnessed a series of very large sell offs getting slammed into Bid wall on Stamp. Individual sell orders so large, that the whale executing them must have either been panicking, or deliberately trying to smash the market.

Included amongst them, was a single sell order in the region of 1700 BTC, that took Bitstamp down from $705 - $666.6666.

I don´t have many btc and i believe in the crypto currency.

Every time i sold ( trying to rebuy cheaper ) because most of the topics where talking about capitulation, China ban, Russia ban, etc, etc, etc, finished loosing.

So i will HOLD, if it gets 10k or more i will sell and if not i will keep them in a pendrive till usb ports be obsolete.

Maybe it´s just i´m a noob trading, but needed to tell my experience.

In my opinion, you want to buy/mine a coin that has yet to be widely discovered.

Once the media and the whole world has jumped in, there will be less upside potential. The trick is to find the coin before the massive run up in price.

How to find the next winner:

Take a look at the list of coins on coinmarketcap.com and look for those that are undervalued. The trick is to find coins that have a disconnect between underlying fundamentals and market price. Do your homework and realize that coin value is derived from; coin name, size and quality of community, and developer genius.

Then read, study, and research, and find the coins that the markets have not yet found.

He was:
http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-operator-exchange-arrested-257/
(rt provides a link to the official statement from the justice department)

facing 25 years in a small room with a toilet and a desk (if lucky).

What if..
.. MtGox got hacked like a year ago, with BTC stolen, and they were too chicken to announce it, instead thinking: "Well, we make good money don't we.. maybe if we just keep going, then maybe we could earn back the money we lost."
But after a year, everything has just went over their heads and they are insolvent.

That is the only reason that I can imagine of. Other then the theory that Gox is operated by an flock of drunken emus.