I've been saying this for a while now. That the "exchange hackings" are being done by federal agents, or proxies for federal agencies. See unlike FRNs, the government can't ask the Federal Reserve to "print" more Bitcoin. Because of that, they can't keep devaluing the FRN at the rate they were, because the inflation would show in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptos. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure that is why the Fed stopped QE to begin with, they couldn't hide the rate of release of new FRNs anymore. It's one thing when the FRN is falling in value at the same rate as the other fiat currencies, it's an entirely different matter when there are currencies like Bitcoin whose rate of production is not only fixed but deterministic, and orders of magnitude slower.

In attempts to dissuade people from investing in Bitcoin, the Fed has to distort the value of Bitcoin in contrast to Federal Reserve Notes. They can let the FRN strengthen by cutting back on QE, and increasing interest rates. Either of which will make the FRN a better store of value over the short-term. The problem is that many industries (oil specifically) have become DEPENDENT on cheap money flowing to the banks from the fed. Without the awesome rates the banks were getting (more or less FREE) exploration for sites to frack seems like a lame investment because of the cheapening prices of gas, and relatively low returns by comparison to conventional oil drilling. This negative feed-back loop has already gotten to the point where oil workers are being laid off by the thousands in the US and Canada.

All of this puts the fed in a bad spot. It could buy enough BTC to sell it at a loss, and cause major chaos on our exchanges, but, doing so would lose them money, and the market would correct too quickly for doing it to be worth it. In addition it would make everyone that sold them BTC richer. They could invest in networks to pull a 51% attack, but it would only work for 10 minutes. If they tried to mine, it would put the difficulty through the roof, make miners richer, and cost them as much to mine as it does everyone else. Everyone would know the fed got into mining, and the price would follow the difficulty. They have to steal it, or have someone else do it for them. It is the only way to get Bitcoin other than mining it, buying it (or trading for it...either of which makes traders richer), or selling something for it. Last I heard, they don't take BTC for Treasury Notes.....The markets behave the way they do because "someone" is selling Bitcoin in a way that seems to indicate that they didn't buy it, trade something of equivalent value, or mine it (meaning like they have no regard or concern for how much BTC is worth/costs)....you do the math...

-Oz

Unlike bitcoin, where the network is decentralized and there is no overseer, the proposed digital currency system would be controlled by central banks, the source said.

"These coins will be part of the money supply," the source said. "It's the same money, just not a dollar bill with a serial number on it, but a token that sits on this blockchain."

Continue to work, as I do now...
I own my own business and it's as close to guaranteed income as one can get. There is no guarantee I will ever get all of my money out of Bitcoin if I wanted to. Besides, Bitcoin is just a nice bonus to my retirement account as long as it doesn't die.