On 09/25/2017 07:18 AM, jim bell wrote:

>Well, Bitcoin price has increased more-or-less exponentially, since the
beginning. With occasional boom and bust cycles on top of that trend.
The most notable booms have started on the following dates. I've also
noted the time since the previous boom start.

>late Apr-2011       
mid Mar-2013    ~23 months
late Oct-2013    ~7 months
mid May-2014    ~7 months
late May-2016    ~25 months
late Dec-2016    ~7 months
mid Feb-2017    ~2 months
early May-2017    ~3 months
late Jul-2017    ~3 months

>The price is increasing now. And it's been about two months since the
last boom started. So ...

You may notice that one of these booms started about late October 2013.  This was slightly before that anonymous person, operating under the name "Sanjuro", contacted me for the first and last time.  (I think over the Tor Network, by a kind of emai; I didn't understand it; I just responded to what looked like an "email" to me.)  After wishing him good luck and "Thanks", I decided to direct him to Andy Greenberg, that editor for Forbes who wrote about me in his book.    (I had been pissed that Greenberg hadn't checked his facts about me very well:  I was trying to throw Greenberg a 'hot potato' and intending that it embarrass him when he failed to write about 'Sanjuro'.)

Much to my surprise, about a week later Greenberg wrote an EXTREMELY influential article about Sanjuro and his "Assassination Market":

  https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/#1a50547b3d9b 

 Within a day or so of that article's appearance, I think that maybe 100 other articles had appeared by other authors; a few copied what Greenberg wrote, but most simply wrote similar articles.  Many hundreds of other articles appeared in subsequent days, weeks, and months.  I suspect it was close to 1000 total.  

The result was a veritable explosion of publicity.

If you look at the history of Bitcoin's price during this time frame, you will see that not only did its price rise dramatically subsequently after Greenberg's article appeared (a factor of three, approx:  I can see a change from $206-$1100., in a chart with very low resolution, but also rose substantially prior to when he talked to me.  I suspect that I reasonable conclusion is that somebody or somebodies purchased a substantial amount of Bitcoin prior to 'Sanjuro's contact with me, and made a handsome profit once the article appeared.  Sadly, and I am embarrassed to admit, I was NOT one of those "somebodies".  

Keep all this in mind now.  

               Jim Bell