Was the price raise in November mainly driven by the MtGox hackers?

[fairlay]

Latest investigations on the MtGox case suggest that hackers found a possibility to create new accounts with a fake (fiat) balance. They used this to buy Bitcoin and withdraw them. This buys could have been the main reason for the price raise last November. We have just written a blog post on it with more details: http://blog.fairlay.com/2014/08/connecting-the-dots-a-possible-connection-between-the-raise-in-november-mtgox-disaster-and-recent-price-drop/

[Mobius]

IMO this is the same kind of conspiracy theory that the willie bot is about. There is really no credibility to these kinds of claims. I do enjoy reading about a good conspiracy every now and then but it needs to have at least some level of evidence behind it.

[TheIrishman]

Prices rose because North Korea's Glorious Leader King Kong Kung Fu bought a lot of BTC.

[Willisius]

No, I think it was mainly driven by willie.

[SomethingElse]

It was Willie.  It was an inside job.

[El Dude]

Wasn't btcchina leading the price rise in nov ?

[frankh13]

Latest investigations on the MtGox case suggest that hackers found a possibility to create new accounts with a fake (fiat) balance. They used this to buy Bitcoin and withdraw them. This buys could have been the main reason for the price raise last November. We have just written a blog post on it with more details: http://blog.fairlay.com/2014/08/connecting-the-dots-a-possible-connection-between-the-raise-in-november-mtgox-disaster-and-recent-price-drop/

Sorry, but it's delirium. If hackers can to do it, why they doesn't do fictional fiat wallets? Why only btc interested??