Truthfully I find a very large majority of articles like these to be filled with some very iffy reporting most of the time, and while the peso did crash on election day and the days following it, I don't think it got anywhere close to losing 15% or 20% of its value.
As for $13.5m in Bitcoin purchases, I would be slightly surprised but it doesn;t seem out of the realm of possibility.
Iffy or not, it's a quote from Pablo Gonzales of Bitso, thus pretty sure that nasdaq.com didn't put words in his mouth. Come to think of it, why wasn't one of the basic claims by Pablo, i.e. the peso's decline, not looked into by nasdaq.com? Surely its editor has access to at least Google if not some other database maintained by NASDAQ.
Upon review, here's my take: Them dudes donning big boy pants know more than we do, thus getting the hype out prior to what they know will come to pass, namely the Winklevoss' widely anticipated ETF. If you think I'm crazy, consider that Hitchcock didn't invent the following:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/synopsisThe next morning, the action changes to inside the boardroom of a government intelligence agency in Washington D.C. where a group of planners remark about the photo of "U.N murderer" Roger Thornhill on the front page of a newspaper. They consider how to deal with the sudden appearance of a man who has been mistaken for the non-existent George Kaplan. It is revealed that these agents invented a non-existent agent named "George Kaplan" as a decoy for their real agent who has infiltrated an enemy group headed by a man named Vandamm. They've succeeded in making Vandamm believe that their phantom "Kaplan" is the real agent, by creating a trail of hotel registrations complete with prop clothing and other personal belongings moved in and out of the various hotel rooms by fellow agents. And now Vandamm has somehow mistaken Thornhill for Kaplan. The intelligence chief, a middle-aged gentleman called the Professor (Leo G. Carroll) suggests that the agency do nothing to help Thornhill. If they try to help him, they risk exposing their real agent who would probably be killed. For the time being, they will simply wait and let this real-life "Kaplan" (Thornhill) lend credibility to their invented "Kaplan."
Ironically, the plot centers around ...
Then there's the scene depicting Thomas Jefferson's nose, poking it where it don't belong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#Banks
Think about it!
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