with the number of ERC tokens circulating, its not going to be surprising for anyone who expect to profit from ETHER's rise after all these turmoil. sooner when we run out of things to spread fud for the holders and it hits the bottom, it will blow up. And it probably started already as the price are gradually appreciates.
Ethereum's decline is because its bubble is too big, and there are a lot of ERC20 tokens. They are actually scam, so the price drop of Ethereum is normal. When those scamer left, they took away the Ethereum fund.
no matter how big those scammer had gotten, it can't contribute much to eth's fall.