Have you guys considered that maybe there won't be this huge pump, but that we just simply keep grinding upward steadily all next year and into the future? And let me outline below why this would be a GREAT thing:
Like Tera suggested, where we are today is very different than 2013. We have many more legit exchanges now, and with the exception of Bitfinex, they've likely all gotten their sh-- together and much more resistant to hacks and outages.
I have this theory, that all of Bitcoin's past major rallies were predicated on the pumpers having a "fall" in their backpocket, something that would guarantee a REASON for a crash (so that they could time their big short, of course). In the early years it was spreading FUD about the Bitcoin protocol itself, and hacking/crashing the early shitty exchanges. In Mt. Gox's case, it was easy to just DDOS, hack, or crash that exchange whenever the pumpers/hackers needed to, because it was so shitty and full of holes. And of course they had siphoned off pretty much all the bitcoin and made Mt. Gox insolvent, so the FBI shutting them down was real bad news they could use to their benefit.
Then in late 2013, we got to see the effects of a major fake FUD announcement (i.e., the whole "China bans Bitcoin" or "Russia bans Bitcoin" or "51% attack imminent!" garbage). It was effective then, but I think today that fake FUD news would no longer work like it did then because bitcoiners have become resistant to such drivel.
So if the pumpers no longer have exchange hacks to rely on, or fake FUD to use, then they would have no guaranteed "fall" in their backpocket. And if they had no guaranteed reason for a crash, then would they be even bother to pump the market to the moon anymore? It would take a LOT of $$$ and margin leverage to pump the Bitcoin market to the moon now.
I'm starting to wonder if the pumpers/hackers have simply moved on to the smaller altcoins now, as it's easy to see how these same tactics were used in both the ETH (eg. DAO hack) and Monero (eg. fake hack news) markets just recently with the exact same results. Plus it takes less money to pump the altcoin markets.
TL; DR - If Bitcoin ever starts pumping to the moon out of the blue, be very, very worried... because bad news is right around the corner. (btw, I'm still concerned about those ~110K stolen Bitfinex coins
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Sorry, but you are pretending like human greed is just not going to apply "this time." You cannot prevent another moon shot, like you cannot prevent the tide from rising every day. It will happen as sure as the sun sets. Humans and greed know no bounds. When an opportunity to double your money over night presents itself, then people will poor their money into bitcoin and there will not be enough coins to go around. Bitcoin's next stop will be a trillion market cap, i am just upset i didn't get more coins while I could....