aprox: 30k on Gox, 27k on Stamp, 50k on BTChina
just around $100MM only on those three exchanges
...pigs getting slaughtered
So whales saw the chance in news to cause panic and pushed the price a little bit and put bids to catch cheap coins?
That would be a gamble. Making a positive news feel negative by manipulated first reaction and then hope that there'll be a stampede. Very well executed if true. Besides in China you really have to have the coins to cause anything like that. Other excahnges followed like sheep...