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OPERATION APRIL FOOLSCOIN
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Targets: MtGox, BTCE, Bitcoin24, Bitstamp
Mission statement:
The recent sell-off was only partially successful for several reasons:
- Fresh blood looking to buy
- Overly bullish market
- Only one exchange targeted
April 1st occurs at the end of a bank holiday, fiat will be running low on the exchanges and it is the perfect time for a secondary strike. A triple bluff will be used to trick the market into collapse.
- Stage 1: Slowly buy BTC, use accounts to spread bullish propaganda on all major channels; bitcointalk, reddit, twitter, etc.
- Stage 2: Dump 10k on Gox, and 1K on all other exchanges.
- Stage 3: Put buy orders in below the final sale price to profit from the panic sellers.
- Stage 4: When price rebounds to within 5% of the original price dump all remaining coins.
- Stage 5: DDoS all exchanges and spread negative propaganda on forums.
- Stage 6: Send the pre-made press releases to selected news outlets.
We got it this time.
Meet on IRC at the designated time and be prepared for a late night.
That was posted on Mar 29th, 2013. Everything leading up to the $266 high on April 10, 2013 may have been part of this "Operation April FoolsCoin".
The event that is referred to as "The recent sell-off was only partially successful" must be what you see below from March 28, 2013:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg694.imageshack.us%2Fimg694%2F7026%2F26044598.png&t=665&c=l6JwVCki5Yxrsw)