Why would someone ever "keep the price down" for any coin, by dumping it?
Doesn't that mean they *own a lot of that coin* in order to be able to dump it?
Why would they benefit from this when they can just wait till it rises as high as it can and *then* dump it?
Doesn't it make a lot more sense to assume that this "VTC hater" is not being irrational and evil, but is just one of the early bigger VTC miners or else someone who bought a boatload of it at 10 Satoshi or whatever, and is now milking all the people in the market for easy and huge profit?
I don't think there needs to be a conspiracy to explain this, just plain old profit taking off the lower levels of the pyramid.
Regardless, they can't have an infinite supply of it. They'll sell out of their stash sooner or later and then it might move again, if people haven't lost interest in VTC by then.
Nope, you are wrong here, now i'm typing this on my ipad so i'll keep it short.
They are keeping the price low by trading very small amounts of vtc with themselves and they keep going a little lower every time they do it. When they decide enough people are panicking and panick-selling they will buy up all the cheap VTC. when they do this everyone sees the price is going up again and they'll just go with the flow and start pumping it again. Then when the people that bought the vtc when it was cheap enough to them will just wait untill the price is high enough again, (10-30% profit) and then just sell it all again, making the price drop again.
They'll just keep repeating this process for easy profit.
It's called market manipulation and is illegal in normal stock/fiat markets.