Not sure how valid it is, but if it's true it sounds orchestrated.
It's true that there were some very large donors. But my guess is it went like this: Some whales quickly realized that they could buy huge publicity for bitcoin by sending large amounts to this kid. I do not believe the kid himself was involved in any orchestration.
Nah I don't think he is either, I just mean someone with some money to spare saw an opportunity to manipulate the media and they capitalized. Not exactly ethical, and if the media does any research (I know, laughable), they might reveal the news as such. That'd play into their "pump & dump" rhetoric quite nicely.
Ethical; VERY overpriced word really. What is ethical? Any ethics is "stored" within one's pants IMHO. Is media ethical? Is the human community ethical? Are you or me? Ethics is scarce these days (and from what I can recall, we haven't seen some pure ethical people since the golden age of Pericles).
On the matter now: Any publicity is a good one. So pros for whoever orchestrated this.
