Current chart for me.

Maybe it was MatTheCat:

No reason.  If there was, the charts wouldn't look like this:

You obviously need decentralized exchanges to deal with problems like centralized exchanges being able to trade on their own system and naked short coins down to 0.  Then the market would have to consider the DEX as the leading exchange price-wise instead of the margined casino centralized ones.

Obviously the Cryptoshekel:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=394123.0

Mat doesn't understand you can own BTC without being in a leveraged margin position.  It's even in the news as the best performing currency on the planet, what was it?  4 out of the 5 last years?  He would rather cash out to a collapsing British Pound though.

Bitcoin market analysis June 26 2016:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1496372.msg15375907#msg15375907

Current state of Bitcoin market June 26, 2016:

01[19:03] <r0ach> when it broke below $600 the other day, it was due to MASSIVE amounts of shorts
01[19:03] <r0ach> and not real bitcoin sells
01[19:03] <r0ach> so it was entirely bullshit bear raid
[19:03] <cesurasean> how do you predict the dips anyways? reading materials about news, etc, gather info?
01[19:05] <r0ach> this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6qD_2SQrs
[19:07] <cesurasean> hehe
[19:30] <wsmsg> r0ach: still bull?
01[19:34] <r0ach> market is controlled entirely by 1 single entity on finex right now, he can send price anywhere in short term, so I trade entirely off what he does.  For halving still bullish yes
[19:36] <wsmsg> whats his position now?
01[19:38] <r0ach> he's testing the market low right now.  He is the one who pushed it to $550 last time, but he did so with shorts and not actual coin sells, so it entirely depends on if this guy does some stupid move and tries to crater the market while also taking a loss on shorts he has to cover (but can't)
01[19:38] <r0ach> it doesn't look like he's going ballistic with shorts this time tho
01[19:39] <r0ach> at least not the extent as before
[19:39] <wsmsg> lets hope the uptrend continues thanks for your insight
[19:41] <fluter> is it possible to identify this person and know who he is?
01[19:41] <r0ach> if BitFinex gives him up...sure
[19:41] <Squidicuz> ...
[19:42] <wsmsg> id imagine youd have to have quite deep pockets to move the market
01[19:42] <r0ach> he's got a lot
[19:42] <fluter> This is how difficult with bitcoin, when in stock exchange, they have to publish the biggest traders everyday
01[19:42] <r0ach> enough where nobody tried to fight him yet at least
[19:42] <berndj> how do you know it's the same one, r0ach ?
01[19:42] <r0ach> because when you trade bitcoin every day it's easy as shit to notice
01[19:43] <r0ach> just like it's easy as shit to notice Eth is controlled by one guy on Poloniex
01[19:43] <r0ach> so the 2 biggest crypto markets are completely non-aggregate markets
[19:44] <fluter> I wish I have you knowledge, r0ach
[19:44] <fluter> your
01[19:44] <r0ach> also, the last guy this pushed the market down on purpose, he shorted all the way to the bottom, kept shorting at the bottom at a loss, then like 1 nanosecond after his last short, instantly begins to cover
01[19:45] <r0ach> with a big spike
01[19:45] <r0ach> the guy who is doing it is probably reading this right now pissed I'm telling people heh
[19:46] <RainMan28> but r0ach how can you honestly know its just one single person and not a bunch of different people acting in a similar fashion?
01[19:46] <r0ach> because he doesn't obfuscate his activity
01[19:47] <r0ach> he's by far the biggest volume in the market, so he would have a hard time doing so anyway
01[19:48] <r0ach> he's also been forcing china to follow him
01[19:48] <r0ach> instead of vice versa
01[19:48] <r0ach> which was new to me
01[19:49] <r0ach> there was another mega whale that stepped in that attempted to take the reigns from China and pump higher when china didn't want to that got us to $790
01[19:50] <r0ach> not sure if it was the same guy or not
01[19:50] <r0ach> but that was the first time I saw China not being the leader of this market
[19:51] <fluter> r0ach: it might be a china trader trading outside of china?
01[19:53] <r0ach> china whales are usually easy for me to spot because they operate in binary modes:  1)  altruistic type WE MUST GO HIGHER mode and then 2)  Can't rise any higher, time to screw everyone with mega dump and shorts then leave the market till it cools
01[19:53] <r0ach> but the chinese never try to actually do long term damage to charts with mega lows and shit like that
01[19:53] <r0ach> but this Finex trader DOES
[19:54] <fluter> oh
01[19:54] <r0ach> I actually suspected it was Finex the exchange themselves naked shorting
01[19:55] <r0ach> because the guy has too much fucking money
01[19:55] <r0ach> which is why we should probably demand finex make a statement on this guy
01[19:55] <r0ach> when you have a completely non-aggregate bullshit market
01[19:57] <r0ach> the amount of margin right now is high, so they are also trying to scare out margin traders
01[19:59] <r0ach> yesterday the guy padded the buy side and got people to buy his shorts then dumped the market
01[19:59] <r0ach> so that's where we are now
01[20:00] <r0ach> price has 0 to do with fundamentals right now
01[20:00] <r0ach> just 1 guy

You can't justify IPOs due to what I said here, you're just recreating the Federal Reserve:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1524286.msg15337113#msg15337113

I try to be pragmatic and set reasonable expectations for what can become of things.  I'm aware governments can attempt to co-opt BTC in different manners by trying to regulate mining facilities and all that.  Whether that would actually work or not is highly debatable being a multi-continent thing +10,000 altcoins they have to play endless whack-a-mole with and lose eventually.  This is why there's no real reason for them to even try to attack BTC in that manner.

The point is, none of those worst case scenarios are even a deal breaker to me because they still would not be worse than the system we already have.  Bitcoin isn't usury, debt, fractional reserve based, or inflationary, so no matter what "they" do to the thing, you will probably be getting some type of more sound money out of the deal.  You try to say they will "claw it all back" with 90% taxes or whatever, but that's not an inherent Bitcoin problem, that's a too big of govt problem.

If every 1st world nation bands together to create a North Korean, gulag system where everyone who makes over $10,000 a year is taxed for 90% using the blockchain to prove how much wealth you have, at that point you would just cash out your now much more valuable BTC, buy some type of metal, real estate, 1 million cattle, whatever, then move to some random 3rd world country and live like a king like John McAfee.  You probably wouldn't even need to "cash out", you can just spend your BTC while sitting around in your new 3rd world country.

If Bitcoin accomplishes it's intended goal, you win.  If Bitcoin is somehow co-opted by a world government, you're now front running the government and still win with 10,000x more resources to attempt to accomplish whatever it is you wanted to do before.  Bitcoin never shipped with a label that says "100% guaranteed to prevent an authoritarian world government from forming that will kill everyone".

Yea, you're right.  I accidentally used 0.5% instead of 0.05%.  They aren't paying astronomical fees, but you can clearly tell it's wash traded.

Edit: math error, see below

Mat, settle down.  I'm not here to take your Bitcoins.  We have to log on BitFinex and do battle on the orderbooks first.  That is, unless you stopped using BitFinex and use an even more shady site like 1Broker or SimpleFX now...

And of course seconds after you post that, the market dumps.

This was probably the reason though and not the Chinese:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1413819.msg15362332#msg15362332

I think this might have been the only reason the market dumped in the first place:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1413819.msg15362332#msg15362332

Prime example of why idiots need to stop supporting these Russian IPO scammers.  This Sasha guy from waves is either too stupid to know that doing a market sell of 5000 BTC on Bitfinex will crash the market, or he made so much money from you that he doesn't even care how much slippage he causes while attempting to cash out for personal gain to buy as many Lambos as possible.  Most people here probably own more BTC than altcoins, so you're just hurting your own investment by supporting their IPO scamcoins.

Sasha are you a fucking idiot?  You don't sell 5000 BTC at once unless you're trying to crash the market on purpose.

Sell your BTC over the counter to this guy who wants to buy 25,000:

https://twitter.com/BitfuryGeorge/status/746214539310489601