one word:
ICO's
...too many people spend ETH for tokens and these companies are happily selling ETH for fiat...
it is a sign of incredible strenght that ETH has returned to $300 despite the heavy large volume selling....
Agree with you completely. Too many ICOs that essentially inflate the money supply. Fiat comes in for eth and then goes to those tokens. At some point, people will get smart and demand more of a finished product and strategy than just a sexy looking web page.
Speaking of which, I am doing an ICO for a coin that makes sexy looking web pages. Are you in?
Yes i think that is one of the main reasons, now if you take a look at the bounty campaings section on this forum, they all pay with ethereum tokens, all the new icos are ethereum based, they use that protocol because it is more easy to create, this could be one of the cases why ethereum is not following the same pattern as btc atm.
but in the last days ethereum had an increase of a 80% after the aug1 meassure.
so it depends on how is the market in that moment.