On the outside chance that the OP really is Satoshi, and has been living under a rock for 2 years. I will explain my conjecture about what may be happening.
The first thing you have to understand is that the Banks want to take control of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Another member, sgbett, figured out in part how they will do this:
Governments have noticed it, powerful people have noticed it, *banks* have noticed it. Right now we are in a perfect storm of the aftermath of a huge overshoot on the purchase of mining equipment - this is *fact* as evidence by the hash rate/difficulty.
This will take time to unravel. It surely will though, as irrational as people are, they will eventually stop flushing money down the mining drain. That money will turn towards the supply. As it becomes obvious the bottom is in, that is when people will start the next run up. Only this time it isn't going to be just neckbeards, redditors, hipsters and anonymous, it will be institutions. That have pretty much unlimited buying power by virtue of them essentially being able to print their own money, because they are TBTF and will just keep bankrolling each other whilst nuzzling the teat of QE washing away their toxic assets.
So the move will be unprecedented.
Unprecedented to you and I and all the other peons around here. To those behind the move, they just spent a few hundred millions to acquire assets they can now assign book values of billions. Selling into this only makes you weaker in the end game, and selling is what they want you to do because those dollars you are acquiring get more worthless the more bitcoin they have. Who here though has the constitution to hold as they see the price double repeatedly. We are still at the end of the day all hardwired for fiat. As much as anyone pretends they are not.
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The problem that the banks have in the scenario outlined above is that they can only do it once. The fact that coins are going to continue to be issued by lottery for over 100 years is a problem for them. They would lose control of the Bitcoin supply at a rate of like 3-10% per year. If Bitcoin used PoS, they would only need to control the supply (more than 50%) of Bitcoin at a certain point in time in order to lock everybody else out from issuing new Bitcoin.
Here is where the conjecture comes in: They hired a marketing expert to appeal to the greed Bitcoin users. The explicit goal appears to be to replace the consensus algorithm with "delegated proof-of-stake". The marketing expert
released a video claiming that the "inflation" caused by proof-of-work mining is holding down the price. In a second video, he goes a little bit into
why we would care about the price. However, he still fails to explain why the price should be artificially inflated when the network is not even ready to handle more than about 7 transactions per second.
In theory you can do a lot of things.
