[gphil]

Interestingly, the all-time Bitcoin price graph looks a lot like the Gartner Hype Cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Whether or not this really is a "plateau of productivity" remains to be seen however.

[riprowan]

It looks to me more like the Hunt Brothers' attempts to corner the silver market from 1970-1980, and the fallout thereafter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...

[nosuchthing]

Analysis of recent trends dictate the future: http://i.imgur.com/nmQEY.jpg

[anonymfus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response

[bduerst]

Pure coincidence.