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by farmdve 4343 days ago
The price rose primarily because of the Willy bot, aka Mark Karpeles artificially inflating the price. Read the willy report.
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You cannot claim the current ~$600 level is still due to Willy. Willy stopped running 6 months ago, so the market has already corrected itself by now.
Willy wasn't the only reason bitcoin bubbled a few months ago