As Bitcoin becomes more and more a part of the system it was designed to overthrow—because people would rather see 'money go up' than stick to its original cypherpunk manifesto and bake in privacy at a protocol level (as Snowden has been cautioning the devs to do for years).

Similar to election cycle gas price manipulation, I am confident that this ATH bull run was not an accident.

I am reminded of the parade scene from Batman, where the Joker attempts to lure the citizens of Gotham by throwing money at them in a sinister plot, just before he gasses everyone.