was a bit wrong on futures volumes https://gemini.com/blog/successful-first-settlement-of-bitcoin-futures/ ...Since inception, over 124,000 contracts have traded across expiries, representing a notional value of over $1.5bn USD. so guess those guys brought up real btc perhaps on otc to cover themselves? hence the nov/dec runup
NLC was a professional fudder working in what was then the main trader’s pit to get the price as low as possible for as long as possible while he or his employer accumulated. He stopped (or rather transformed into other long con characters) when the bear market had run its course.
Bingo.
And he's probably still here, just using other account(s). Could have even been a bull account in here somewhere the last few years.
Treasury is working with the Internal Revenue Service examiners to review 100 registered digital currency providers as well as others that have not registered, Sigal Mandelker said in prepared testimony to the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday. The department is also working with the Justice Department to pursue money laundering cases.