Sure Bitfinex slowed BTC uprise, if hack have not happened I think we would be somewhere in 800-850$ range, the 1000$ also have a physical meaning, first traders would try to dump on 1000$ make a short, but if and when 1000+ became stable there is big chance next BTC price hype will start
As soon the news start to publish bitcoin stable price and record high we gona see next race to uptrend will it be 2000 - 2500$ i am sure of it, but when i don`t know, we need some 3+ months period of no bad news for sure
You know that saying that we'd be at $1,000+ if Bitfinex didn't happen is completely unfounded right? Even saying it'd be up in the $800s? Just because we saw a buy-in over the past few weeks doesn't mean it's new money flowing in and there's a chance the market would have just stayed at the low $600s.
You can't say that a price change would have happened if the market stayed where it was. Chances are nothing was going to change, or at least not by much. I don't know how it can be said it would have gone up ~$400.