imho there is only ONE player that is moving the market, and i doubt if he/she/it ever participated in this forum.
In the past 3 days, that someone has potentially gained 2.3m viacoins, at an investment of ~130BTC.
This doesn't look like a lone trader to me. Seems like a serious player or group... perhaps a P&D group that noticed Viacoin's price and is now building position to later pump it.
Placing ~130BTC into a coin that has no significant volume, while collecting 1/6 its outstanding coins, means either a serious long-term position by a serious player, or a moon-type P&D in the making.
Furthermore, we now know that:
New player = 2.3m VIA
Masternode+Otoh = ~in the millions of VIA
XCH firesale fund = 1m VIA
this alone represents almost half of the outstanding VIA coins... i.e. supply side is getting shorter and shorter...
P.S. I know i passed the thread rules by talking about this stuff. I just couldn't hold myself
Trust me, no one has gained 2.3M VIA in the last couple of days. It is *highly* probable and most likely that are the trades are self bought to create volume and the illusion of activity, and whomever it was might also use the opportunity to consolidated coin balances they control (I haven't checked the rich list to see if any new large holders have appeared). There are a small group of people (at most 6 or 7) who ever held over 1M VIA. You know that the coins from Otoh and I haven't moved, so that leaves an even smaller group who could even bother putting up that size of sell orders (some of which I've spoken with and have indicated they don't plan to dump their coins for obvious reasons). On the other side of it there is the idea that someone is suddenly interested in buying VIA for that size, which is extremely comical.