On November 15, the Chinese stock exchange OKCoin showed the value of the Bitcoin price above $ 15,000: on social networks, comments began to appear on the strange dynamics at OKCoin, the chart of which showed a 24.3 hour increase in Bitcoin at 123.21%, resulting in a new historic maximum of $ 15,151.
Did someone just buy BTC for $ 10 million on OKCOIN!?? or are their books broken? #bitcoin $BTC #okcoin #cryptocurrency #ATH pic.twitter.com/VtZm04LHhY
— CRYPTO_AFRICA (@CRYPTO_AFRICA) November 15, 2017
This price is not even in Zimbabwe, where due to hyperinflation, Bitcoin is traded much more expensively than in other countries, reaching $ 13,000.Then there was information that in fact, OKCoin had a price jump from a maximum of 24 hours, which, according to the representatives of the exchange, touched $ 10 million, but on public charts, it did not have time to reflect. Then Bitcoin collapsed by 99.8% during intraday trading before reaching a level just above $ 15,000.Lovers of humor began to speculate that OKCoin accidentally showed expectations or future quotes for cryptocurrency. Moreover, at the beginning of the year one of the news programs told that in the future Bitcoin could overcome the $ 1 billion mark, which would force people to go to the past to buy it "for only $ 10 million."
At the time of writing, OKCoin's website had been taken offline. In the coming days, it is likely that the exchange will release a statement apologizing for the outage and attributing the erratic pricing behavior to a bug, and trading data will subsequently be wiped from the record. Most people will believe them, but truly insightful individuals will see through the facade, recognizing that this statement was likely written by a clandestine government agency and published by the exchange operator under duress in order to conceal evidence of time travelers from reaching the general public.