I'm just reflecting on the low supply and concluding that pumps are completely different kettles of fish this time around.
After a huge devaluation such as we saw across all coins last year following the manic speculative pumps, coins are in the hands of longer term holders. Ask yourself - who's going to hold onto a coin and not take profits after a massive dump to 20% of a coin's all time high ?
A: Only people who bought to hold long term.
i.e.
on the way up, it's buy to dump
on the way down it's buy to hold
So we have a completely different type of holder this time around. That's why the supply is so low (plus a ton of it is now tied up in masternodes). We won't see anything like the dumping we saw last year (though there will of course be corrections).
That's also possibly why the price hung around for so long in the 5-7 range. There just wasn't the liquidity anymore for any large buys (even 1 masternode) at those prices. A revaluation was is required.
Even so, I can't help looking at that Cryptsy order book and thinking - forget price hikes, this market looks in danger of going bid only.
That would be a first in crypto and a very interesting phenomenon.
(Cryptsy's already there as far as masternodes are concerned - bid only. How's about that ? Cause for an Amber Alert)
We could actually be sitting on a volcano about to erupt. If there are people that have been keeping a check on DRK with a view to buying enough for an MN (or several) but not until it's somehow "proved" itself (whatever that means; something tells me we're there) we could see it race up past 0.01, then quickly 0.02. 0.03, 0.04, 0.05.....it's entirely possible a sudden lift-off/eruption is on the cards like nothing we've seen with DRK yet. Hold on everyone!