I can not see a proof of your argument that BinLaden moved the price down. Can you?
Miners are not investors, they need to pay the bill and will always do that with the mined coins!
Bitladen controls this address,and it is probably collecting block rewards from computers mining sort of like a private pool :
BURST-KQ2P-FWCW-AAYU-D9G24
click it up here:
http://burstcoin.biz/address/12754694899610736661You can see recent transactions in the link above , incoming is none, but loads of blocks rewarded, and outgoing is all the time to BURST-LLAC-5GCS-EUF5-DLTU3
I am not certain what that address is, but i will assume it is bitladens deposit account at poloniex, cause every time money is sent there, it is sent on to the poloniex hot wallet, look here:
http://burstcoin.biz/address/12748338264256629002All you see is money coing in from the /bin/laden account and then being sent over to poloniex hot wallet
BURST-R8SQ-TUEM-DTHQ-7ATA3 is the poloniex hot wallet, you can verify by depositing yourself and tracing the money.
Above is proof enough for me that bitladen is mining with a decent amount of hashing power, and is dumping the money onto his poloniex account on an ongoing basis.
Of course he might just store the burst on the exchange and not sell any on the BURST/BTC market, but i doubt it. Nobody is foolish enough to have a large amount of cash on an exchange, these exchanges tend to break down from time to time.
I agree with you that i cannot trace bitladen block rewards further than to an account at poloniex that he controls.
Btw. it is not a problem for me that bitladen mines and dumps - if that is what works best for him, then i will not object in any way, in fact a welcome him as a user of burst, we need all kinds of users to have a thriving market - burst should be designed well enough that this is not a longterm problem. As rewards get lower over time, the upside explosion in price will just be that much larger, when bitladen do not mine enough coins to hold down the price. Best way to make money on bitladen behavior is to try to time the bottom in BURST price and then buy a lot of them at the suppressed price. If i should automate things i would probably try to make the price fall a bit slower, but then accumulate a lot of burst on the way down.
His 51% attack threat i am dealing with, by adding more plots myself. And i will continue until i don't percieve a threat anymore. To be on the safe side i will continue adding some terabytes the next few months so that an attack will become ever more expensive for the attacker. When he turns off his losing operation, diff will go up and i will get rewarded more coins until other miners find a balance somewhere, however, i am happy to put in some money just to decentralize the mining a bit more. In a few years time, when BURST is 1000 i will look back at some really cheaply mined coins and a great profit. The 8TB disks can be sold, or used as door stops or whatnot.