Some pieces of the timeline:
Tuesday, Jan 30* People start taking profits from US Stock Market.
* Bloomberg REPEATS OLD Tether FUD. [see below re: my comments about this]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-01-30/crypto-exchange-bitfinex-tether-said-subpoenaed-video* People start taking profits from Crypto.
* Facebook bans cryptocurrency ads and NY Times and Bloomberg spam this news.
Wednesday, Jan 31* More Bloomberg Tether FUD [see below re: my comments about this]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/why-crypto-traders-are-so-worried-about-tether-quicktake-q-ahttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/bitcoin-extends-cryptocurrency-slide-amid-facebook-tether-fearsFriday, Feb 2* Janet Yellen served her last day as Fed Reserve chairman (after threatening several interest rate hikes earlier in the year). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8_H7x0KwA]
Sunday, Feb 4* Janet Yellen says stock market and real estate markets are bubbles [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8_H7x0KwA]
Monday, Feb 5* New Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powel sworn in.
* Dow Jones dropped 6% [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8_H7x0KwA]
Tuesday, Feb 6* In early morning USA hours, before the typical American wakes, ETH tanks down to $575 and IMMEDIATELY rebounds. Large buy orders triggered. [I am speculating from stock profits.]
* SEC meeting LATER in the day: in SUPPORT of crypto AFTER the the drop and incredible bounce back up, after thier cronies buy orders are triggered... again the FUD from Janet Yellen AND the announcement of SEC meeting caused panic sell off.. and they all KNEW (the insider team of elites) what the buy in order point would be. It's not even illegal for them to do this since it is unregulated. The drop and bounce was in early morning hours while Americans were asleep.
* SEC meeting says they want to target ICO's, yeah because they don't want competition I figure with the set of coins/tokens they are interested in.. which I think will all be ETH based. I think ETH will be the investment coin -- due to the larget investment coming in and PoS--, and Bitcoin will be the coin used as currency (Coinbase is adopting Segwit and Lightning network which wil lmake trnsactions affordable). I am not sure where Ripple stands in all this but it grew peculiarly fast in one day -- don't know if it was just some more pump and dump action or not.. why would the elite invest in a coin where the ceo owns the controlling share.. I have no clue.
Feb 7 to Feb 9* More profits taken from stock market yet crypto goes up -- and is now coming down. Perhaps to even lower levels for them to buy in cheaper as more stock profits come in.
Regarding Tether:Bloomburg spread more FUD about Tether because I think they didn't want people to secure their funds when BTC/ETH started dropping (which they knew darn well it was going to happen).. i.e. they wanted the traders for example on Binance to fear using Tether and not selling then buying back cheap like they did. Also I trade on Binance and it was down for thirty hours due to DoS (denial of service) attacks. I notice more lag when eth is starting to drop fast on binance when I am on the ETH/USDT page getting ready to sell to Tether.. I believe this is when the DoS attacks are happening.