I bet that the old ladies in China who define the price of bitcoin have never heard of either.
Heh, that actually got a chuckle out of me. You gonna show us that article, or is it another "me telling you so is proof" shit you usually go with when asked to demonstrate something?
I already posted many times this article, that describes the typical Chinese traders and investors who caused the Nov/2013 rally:
Christian Science Monitor 2013-12-06
Why the Chinese can't get enough of Bitcoin - despite bank banhttp://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/1206/Why-the-Chinese-can-t-get-enough-of-Bitcoin-despite-bank-banEvery trader should be aware of that information. Understandably, it is never mentioned by the bitcoin "news" media or the Antonopouloses, Winklegosses, Andreessens, Sielberts, etc.. Do I need to explain why?
A briefer but more specific description of those traders and investors is in that
talk by Huobi's Wendy Wang that I posted earlier, around the 00:14:00 mark.
Later in that talk she gives some interesting gossip about the mining situation in China and the mining pool that they manage (Discus Fish, IIRC).