Why should there exist such a manipulation @ anonymousxx
There can be various reasons. The first assumption would be that someone wants to buy it very low and then manipulate or let it grow naturally upwards and make a lot of money. It's most likely as simple as that. Other than that you can have competitors drive down your price pretty effectively. But there is clearly manipulation as you can see in my gif.
And this has been going on for weeks! (or it feels like it!)
The catch is, it has to be someone who got in early...
I've done my bit over a week or so buying up false dumps. Need:
1. DarkGravityWave release
2. Mutlipool which pays out in Darkcoin
3. Come out of DarkSend beta
4. Hack feast to try and break Darksend (zerocash will probably lead the charge)
5. Dark Wallet to confirm they are officially giving up
6. GMaxwell to acknowledge DarkSend is looking pretty close to e-cash vs. Bitcoin
7. Satoshi to move some $100m of coins through DarkSend
8. Media to go to town on rights and wrongs of DarkCoin, privacy, e-cash, etc.
With those steps I think we might break the deadlock on the price movement.