Care to give another explanation for the sudden increase? I'm sure the nearly 20% increase in BTC price since this thread started is just a big coincidence? Same with last New Year's Eve or leading up to April 20th of this year, right? Also, it doesn't take much to "see the entire bitcoin economy increase in value by 10 million dollars." It's not like someone would have to dump 10 million dollars into it... Supply and demand friend. Look into it.
Care to give an explanation for the previous stability while the userbase, transaction volume, transaction size, and hashing power all grew?
What your seeing is the market finally busting out of the stranglehold the day traders had on it. It had nothing to do with this thread, or the 4th of July.
Also, the EUR and GBP charts have been leading this rally. I don't think the Brits are too keen on celebrating the 4th of July. If you sell your bitcoins for GBP right now, and convert them to USD, ignoring fees you are looking at $6.12/BTC. For EUR, you're looking at $6.06.
Real economics friend. Look into it.