bitstamp in full bear mode this afternoon

anyone have a clue what's up with btc-e today? back from the dead it seems

well this is definitely a suspicious move from a suspicious exchange, staying out of the market for now!
Great rise but looks very fishy. Maybe big fraud with stolen $ at btc-e? Some big whale account hacked etc.?
I wish we'll know the reason of this rocket:-D
very fishy indeed! +1
time will tell!
back to previous channel, all that lousy btc-e move did is replenish momentum indicators for another shot at sub 220!
Dump failed
Starting to think $220 is to bears what $300 was to bulls
Kind of surprised
I think a lot of you forget that $220 or so is mining cost for a lot of operations. It would be surprising to me if we went lower for a long period of time. If you truly believe that is the case you should not be invested. Everyone remember how much hash rate dropped off the network in the Jan 15 drop to $166? If we had stayed at those levels and the hash stayed shut down there would have been major network problems for weeks. Block times/transaction times would have been a disaster. Watch the media coverage if that happens. It will not be good for anyone. Bear or Bull.
And before anyone argues that the Chinese miners have costs lower than that. ASIC development and deployment has slowed to a crawl compared to most of last year. If there really was money to be made in China wouldn't we be seeing huge farms coming online? It wouldn't take much to push the rest of the world out of mining if that were the case.
Actually difficulty/hashrate does not affect the working of the blockchain, difficulty is made artificially high when the hashrate rises to keep block time stable. The blockchain will move the same regardless of high or low hashrate (drastic drops in hashrate can cause high block time until it adjusts, but that's all).
btc-e went haywire again, don't try to find a logical explanation for this, it weird ... period!
Is the block size increase required: yes
Is the need imminent: no
Does it have to compromise the anonymity and the decentralized nature of bitcoin: no
Does it have to be the compromised shitcode of XT: definitely not
so what is your choice?
The block size can be increased without rigging the code, and without creating all this fuss and dividing the community, but looks like there are evil alter-motives to this whole XT crap!