Thinking about the unexpected space in the mem pool and trying to make more sense of it. While I suppose it's possible the miners could have spammed it for increased fees,  it's possible they were simply opportunists to some real traffic.  If that were the case, Such a sharp climb and drop in transactions may tell another story. Is it too far fetched or more probable to assume a very deep pocket may have hoarded 500,000 coins or even many more in the past months, driving up the price and filling the pools?  Forgive me if I'm just being captain obvious.  How many coins would an individual or state need to control in order to gain a monopoly over price movements?  

Any ideas why the exchanges are speculating a drop to 1723 in the short term? http://www.bitcoinforecast.com
Although this is not always correct, bitstamp nailed the most recent drop within a few bucks. 

Yup, resistance dropped back real quick or turned support, looks like green candles mostly until 2600.  BTC support amazes me when its needed.    

On Stamp, Seems to me we need to break 2552 before a correction can take place and perhaps 2560.  Taking out 2525 was entertaining to watch.  Someone kept dumping 20-50 btc at a time on 2525 when it got shallow. Seems like an effort to wear out the buyers.

Very nice pullback and epic battle over the bottom. Now hovering around 2515 on Stamp, I'm expecting some sideways movement and some smaller corrections for a day or 2 until the 2550 wall can be chewed through. Maybe that will get pulled but I'd welcome some sideways confidence through the weekend.
Not that I trust goldman sachs but they were accurate so far in calling the movement before it happened. http://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-bearish-bitcoin-price/  
Battleground to 2600, popcorn ready!

Predictable, Coinbase "Currently down for maintenance"   

I'm starting to see this is clearly a bid to get people on the ETH train (since its so resilient  )   Suppose I'll be dumping mine. Anyway, good profits in BTC to do so.

I think this is the bottom lest they want to do damage.

Alts just aren't dumping or like 2% quick bounces and only the pre-mined alts are actually ignoring the whole show. This is deeply calculated.

This isn't over, Bitcoin is being held down on polo

Although, I doubt whomever dumped let go of all their holdings.  I'd bet it was only 20% or so of their holdings. 

I carry about 50\50 in my portfolio with no other cryptos and the dollar balance didn't really fluctuate during this. Actually I'm even up a little now.

The long Con

I feel fairly convinced after this performance that an individual or collaboration of a few have control over the crypto markets. I'll bet the recent Builderberg conference covered the crypto topic.  This is money after all.  That would certainly affect my buying decisions.  

I suspect next days we will see a BTC pump with an ETH decline or leveling.  Just rinse and repeat tactics.  

What I don't know is whether this is fully manipulated with malevolent intent or this is organic growth from those who feel they missed the BTC train.  I have the same feelings towards BTC when it goes parabolic like this.  Certainly not natural market growth.

This gets confusing, I'm not FOMO at this point but more fear of losing BTC in the event this goes south quickly.  I remember about 2 weeks ago ETH exceeded BTC's 24 hour volume then vanished to about 1/4 the volume.  It was the same 3 exchanges with the majority, polo, bithumb, and coinone.
 I think this pump is directly related to that buy.  This might not dump for awhile longer but its anyone's guess when (if it does).
Would hate to miss out on this if its going over 1k and I'm deadly accurate at buying the top  

If you're being serious, How do you "know" that? I'd be put at ease to know that was correct.  I have been watching very closely and notice a big difference in the way the books act on all the exchanges starting around 3-4 pm Pacific time, on Friday's.  The numbers look random bot entered to me until around Monday or Tuesday evening. Would you invest differently if you knew someone had a large majority stockpiled and manipulated the price at their will?   

Being relatively new to bitcoin, I'm concerned with the fact that bitcoin moves mostly on weekends. Why is that or is this just what everyone has come to accept?  Since the numbers are quite high now and new prospective buyers feeling a bit tense in shelling out their dough, I suspect Bitcoin will be a bit more chill this weekend.  

Looks to me that some of the alts are being short squeezed as low as possible. In the case of an alt spike that's where the big percentages will come from. I'm not exactly sure how BTC price moves these numbers up or down but I'm expecting a slow drain on BTC until alts won't sell.