Though you love using the extremely incendiary term &quot;pump and dump&quot; in your numerous comments, you obviously don&#x27;t even understand it. Look up a definition.<p>A pump and dump is type of fraud that cannot, by definition, be &quot;driven&quot; by any <i>true</i> external factor, such as people buying bitcoins to invest in a pyramid scheme, as you&#x27;ve just suggested. Therefore your comment contradicts itself.<p>Though it&#x27;s not impossible that the MMM ponzi affected the bitcoin price, your comments are mostly lazy mud-slinging and weakly-founded opinions dressed up as facts. That&#x27;s better suited to reddit