Recently Coinbase has been engaging in various promotionals to lower fees and increase their volume, so it should be no secret NOR conspiracy that their volume would likely increase, in part, because of their promotional efforts.
Kids say the darnedest things.
^ https://cryptowat.ch/coinbase/btcusd/4h
Why don't you engage a bit about the point that you are attempting to make rather than merely employing a patronizing tone?
'Engage a bit'? You mean that huge red spike that pops out of nowhere to tower over everything else ain't enough?
Must've been pretty awesome 'promotional efforts,' like 'Trade one 1 BTC, get 10 BTC free!'
Well, I am glad that you are capable of words, beyond mere apparent attempts at denigration.
I, for one, do not claim to know everything in the bitcoin space, and I am merely attempting to contribute to the conversation in this thread.
Sometimes, I become a bit jaded myself when I view multiple postings that do not appear to be considering plausible and reasonable explanations for strange events, but instead appear to take advantage of situations to devolve the conversation into outrageous proclamations and as exaggerations and attempts to find conspiracies everywhere.
Surely I believe that there are a multitude of varying degrees of insiders attempting various manipulations and attempts to make easy money, but not every strange occurrence is clearly explained as a pure manipulation and without plausible fair dealings, at least part of the explanation.
Yes, the spike seems quite an anomaly.
Otherwise, feel free to stake, and use Sprouts to buy Sampey's trading bot, or feel free to use them at the DICE site. In fact, feel free to grab some from the multiple faucets that pay out daily. When PayServices has the official launch, you will be able to convert Sprouts into 50+ cryptos, 100+ National Fiats, and 20+ community currencies. 
