There was some one on bitcoin-otc who mentioned he "the man that got this rally going from $0.7 cents by pumping $22,000 into the market in 5 days."
Is it possible this amount could move things so much? He then sold some at a loss and re-bought to keep the rally going.. is this possible?
my guess is he was trolling you
but in order to know if he was telling the truth or not, you have to look at the volume and possibly even the orderbook of 7-8 years ago when price was $0.7 and see whether $22k funds could pump the price or not.
again my guess is that it was not possible because bitcoin was much smaller back then but still not that small. unless by "pump" he meant increasing the price from $0.7 to $1
in any case, bitcoin is not like the pump and dump shitcoins that you can single-handedly pump and dump it. whales can affect the price a lot and even manipulate it but not by that much.
besides right now there is a downtrend going on, trying to cause a rally is like going against the tide. you will be crushed if you try just like when price was rising those who went against it were crushed.